P4 3.06 533fsb 1gb ram-it's OVERCLOCABLE?

[GEOrifle]

Hi guys, i have P4 533fsb NORTHWOOD with 1gb ram and ATI 9800PRO.
It's old but until buy some power i was thinking to OC it.
It's posible?

 

[Furen]

The motherboard is probably the most important part to know whether or not it can be overclocked. The Sony PCV-rZ26g thing makes it sound like it's an OEM (prebuilt) computer. If so then I'd say your chances of being able to overclock are pretty slim.

 

[the cobbler]

Sony Vaio = absolutely no way can it be overclocked

 

[GEOrifle]

ASUS P4S533VL
Why not?

 

[mindwreck]

A sony computer using a asus board? does it have any bios options where you can adjust the fsb and such?

 

[GEOrifle]

How i can find them?

 

[Shenkoa]

Who knows with that board, just search all of the tabs for a FSB setting.

 

[TimeKeeper]

actually, it is possible.
Pin mod your P4 voltage first.
Then pin mod your p4 to 166FSB. (although, I highly doubt that it can reach 3.8ghz)

Don't use conductive pen, just use small wire first.
If your CPU can't run at 166FSB, you can always go back to default 133FSB

 

[jiffylube1024]

I wouldn't bother pin modding the system. Risk > Reward in this case. Plus 166 FSB is an impossible clockspeed for that chip.

Have you even done the calculation TimeKeeper? Running a P4 3.06 at 166FSB is 3.82 Ghz! You'd need phase change cooling for that to be possible! The P4 3.06 is a Northwood core, the first with Hyperthreading. It's before the later/better stepping Northwoods, such as the mad overclocking 2.4C and 2.8C chips, which still only usually did 3.2 to 3.5 Ghz maximum on air.

And buying a new board to overclock that 3.06 isn't worth it either; the 3.2-3.3 Ghz you get out of it won't be worth the price of the board and better cooling.

 

[TimeKeeper]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
I wouldn't bother pin modding the system. Risk > Reward in this case. Plus 166 FSB is an impossible clockspeed for that chip.

Have you even done the calculation TimeKeeper? Running a P4 3.06 at 166FSB is 3.82 Ghz! You'd need phase change cooling for that to be possible! The P4 3.06 is a Northwood core, the first with Hyperthreading. It's before the later/better stepping Northwoods, such as the mad overclocking 2.4C and 2.8C chips, which still only usually did 3.2 to 3.5 Ghz maximum on air.

And buying a new board to overclock that 3.06 isn't worth it either; the 3.2-3.3 Ghz you get out of it won't be worth the price of the board and better cooling.

lol, apparently you didn't see what I said about "I highly doubt that..."
And yes, I know how to calculate.

 

[GEOrifle]

actually, it is possible.

3.8GHZ ?????? That's GREAT.


You guys are PRO's, can you teach me how to do that STEP BY STEP?
thanks.

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: GEOrifle

actually, it is possible.

3.8GHZ ?????? That's GREAT.


You guys are PRO's, can you teach me how to do that STEP BY STEP?
thanks.

There's no way your northwood will run at 3.8 with sony's cooling solution. Have you tried clockgen?

clockgen: use the one for your Asus P4S533 board.

 

[stevty2889]

Clockgen might work, my 3.06ghz P4 ran at 3.45ghz, I had it on a gigabyte 8IK1100 motherboard. I had to slightly up the voltage, so if you motherboard has no voltage adjustments, I wouldn't expect much of an OC, just make sure you keep it cool enough, and if you do adjust the voltage I would never go over 1.6v with a northwood.

 

[Stoneburner]

DOn't expect more than 3.3 to 3.4. I have this chip with an asus p4g8x and I keep it aroudn 3.3. I haven't tried incrementally finding the tipping point but going over 150 fsb is probably too much, 166 is impossible. ANd this board can handle up to 200 mhz fsb.

 

[Maximilian]

Those chips are made from the .13 process too, dosent help overclocking any. I would go with the 3.2-3.4 estimate.

 

[Shenkoa]

The 3.06 was not a good overclocker. It was the highest out of the 533 FSB chips for Northwood.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: GEOrifle

actually, it is possible.

3.8GHZ ?????? That's GREAT.


You guys are PRO's, can you teach me how to do that STEP BY STEP?
thanks.

Overclocking in 3 simplified basic steps.

1. You need to go into your BIOS, hold down the del key at bootup (it might be another key buts its usually del) Big blue screen with menus should apprear.

2. Locate the setting that says FSB, this might be under somthing called "advanced chipset options" or somthing similer, look around, there isnt much to a typical bios so it shouldnt be hard to find. If you cant find it then it might not exist and overclocking is a no-no.

3. Crank up the FSB a little, in 5-10 mhz increments and then test for stability. Prime95 is apparently good for testing stability. Leave that running for a while. Personally i just crank up the FSB by 20 mhz at a time and go about things normally, if it crashes i take it down a little bit if not, ill crank it up some more.

 

[Shenkoa]

The 3.06 will not hit 3.8! unless on LN2.

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