P4 Northwood 1.6A @ 2.3Ghz ... (updated)
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Good lord, a 30% overclock. WTG! 
EDIT: How many (if any?) case fans do you have? Do you have a bunch of rear ones or what?
EDITx2: Dude, are you seriously using a retail hsf to get over 2.3GHz?
No liquid nitro eh.
EDIT: How many (if any?) case fans do you have? Do you have a bunch of rear ones or what?
EDITx2: Dude, are you seriously using a retail hsf to get over 2.3GHz?
No liquid nitro eh.
Just a standard stock fan and 2 case fans ... one suck the other blow
Not bad @ 2.3Ghz from a 1.6G chip for less than $150 !!!
Not bad @ 2.3Ghz from a 1.6G chip for less than $150 !!!
Man.....it seems like some of the lower ones (1.6 & 1.8) are doing even better than the higher ones! I have two 2.2's now and both are running 2.6 at the momet and the one on the TH7II will do 2.8 but you're O/C is even better! I think I might have to pick me up one of the 1.6's or 1.8's this weekend.............
Great job! What's your V-Core at????
I have two 2.2's now and both are running 2.6 at the momet and the one on the TH7II will do 2.8 but you're O/C is even better! I think I might have to pick me up one of the 1.6's or 1.8's this weekend.............Great job! What's your V-Core at????
If you click on his link in the first post, he lists the specs as:
- P4 Northwood 1.6A (retail box)
- MSI 845 Ultra
- 256Mb Crucial PC2100 DDR Ram
- 40Gb Fujitsu 7,200
- Geforce 3 Ti 500
- SB Live 5.1
- Tekram SCSI card
- 3Com 10/100 NIC
OOPS....BTW, nice overclock!
- P4 Northwood 1.6A (retail box)
- MSI 845 Ultra
- 256Mb Crucial PC2100 DDR Ram
- 40Gb Fujitsu 7,200
- Geforce 3 Ti 500
- SB Live 5.1
- Tekram SCSI card
- 3Com 10/100 NIC
OOPS....BTW, nice overclock!
"If you click on his link in the first post, he lists the specs as:
- P4 Northwood 1.6A (retail box)
- MSI 845 Ultra
- 256Mb Crucial PC2100 DDR Ram
- 40Gb Fujitsu 7,200
- Geforce 3 Ti 500
- SB Live 5.1
- Tekram SCSI card
- 3Com 10/100 NIC "
Thanks...when the link was first posted yesterday, the system info was not listed...
- P4 Northwood 1.6A (retail box)
- MSI 845 Ultra
- 256Mb Crucial PC2100 DDR Ram
- 40Gb Fujitsu 7,200
- Geforce 3 Ti 500
- SB Live 5.1
- Tekram SCSI card
- 3Com 10/100 NIC "
Thanks...when the link was first posted yesterday, the system info was not listed...
I'll steal a post from KenAF
<< For those claiming that AMD offers the lead in price/performance, where have you all been living the past few weeks?
If you've followed this or other forums at all, then you know that the P4 1.6A is available for $145, and runs at 2100+MHz using default voltage and the stock Intel heatsink. Moreover, when paired with the $110 Asus P4B266 DDR motherboard, every 1.6A will do at least 2400MHz with slightly increased voltage, and many will do 2550 to 2700MHz. That's about $250 for a guaranteed 2.4GHz setup that will outperform all AMD systems (see Tomshardware where 2.4GHz P4 outperforms Athlon 2000+ @ 1866MHz), with the strong possibility of a much higher overclock. It does all this with the stock Intel heatsink that produces less noise than just about every Athlon heatsink aside from the 8045+L1A combo. Even at 2700MHz, the P4 1.6A still produces less heat than an Athlon XP 2000+ at stock voltage; idle temps reported for a 2600-2700MHz P4 run 32-34C.
AMD used to be the price/performance leader. It is not anymore--for now. >>
BFG. Since when is a guy who is gonna ditch his new Ti500 for a Ti4600 as soon as it comes out worried about cost anyway?
<< For those claiming that AMD offers the lead in price/performance, where have you all been living the past few weeks?
If you've followed this or other forums at all, then you know that the P4 1.6A is available for $145, and runs at 2100+MHz using default voltage and the stock Intel heatsink. Moreover, when paired with the $110 Asus P4B266 DDR motherboard, every 1.6A will do at least 2400MHz with slightly increased voltage, and many will do 2550 to 2700MHz. That's about $250 for a guaranteed 2.4GHz setup that will outperform all AMD systems (see Tomshardware where 2.4GHz P4 outperforms Athlon 2000+ @ 1866MHz), with the strong possibility of a much higher overclock. It does all this with the stock Intel heatsink that produces less noise than just about every Athlon heatsink aside from the 8045+L1A combo. Even at 2700MHz, the P4 1.6A still produces less heat than an Athlon XP 2000+ at stock voltage; idle temps reported for a 2600-2700MHz P4 run 32-34C.
AMD used to be the price/performance leader. It is not anymore--for now. >>
BFG. Since when is a guy who is gonna ditch his new Ti500 for a Ti4600 as soon as it comes out worried about cost anyway?
I received my 1.6A on Friday and am currently at 2.2 gig using Rambus instead of DDR. I will not push the voltage very high (at 1.55 now) and want to keep the rambus at full speed (about PC1100 right now).
For all those who think DDR is the only way to go, the Rambus can be pretty sweet too!
For all those who think DDR is the only way to go, the Rambus can be pretty sweet too!
it can do higher like 160fsb but havent really messed with it that high
i do however need max voltage to get 160fsb+
dont run it cause not a real 333ddr mobo
i do however need max voltage to get 160fsb+
dont run it cause not a real 333ddr mobo
Stan (also known as STL?),
You are using the P4T-E DDR motherboard, right?
Please let us know if you can hit 2400GHz at PC1200 speed with your RDRAM. If I understood that post over on hardocp, it's not possible to change both the cpu core voltage and mainboard FSB DIP switches at the same time. Hopefully Asus will release a bios update at some point that allows both to be configured through the bios. If you can't increase the voltage slightly to the cpu, then you may not be able to run 2400 stable.
You are using the P4T-E DDR motherboard, right?
Please let us know if you can hit 2400GHz at PC1200 speed with your RDRAM. If I understood that post over on hardocp, it's not possible to change both the cpu core voltage and mainboard FSB DIP switches at the same time. Hopefully Asus will release a bios update at some point that allows both to be configured through the bios. If you can't increase the voltage slightly to the cpu, then you may not be able to run 2400 stable.
<< Good lord, a 30% overclock. WTG! >>
Not to be picky but it's closer to ~44% overclock. Anyway, whatever, i'm over it.
These low speed Northwoods remind me of the first durons. My friends and I easily overclocked 600mhz to 1Ghz(~66% overclock).
Cause of you NUC, i went and traded my MSI K7t Turbo and 1.33 T-bird so that i could pick up this Intel combo.
OMG, intel seems to have a REAL winner here.
I'm really jazzed, to be honest, OC'ing the T-birds always left me a bit edgy, heating problems ETC. now this I'm really looking forward to gettin one of these and OC'ing the he11 out of it.
OMG, intel seems to have a REAL winner here.
I'm really jazzed, to be honest, OC'ing the T-birds always left me a bit edgy, heating problems ETC. now this I'm really looking forward to gettin one of these and OC'ing the he11 out of it.
KenAF, I am no relation to STL. And yes I'm using the P4T-E. Per your request I tried the 150fsb, I should note all this is at DEFAULT core voltage, when using the dipswitches it disables changing the cpu voltage. Also worth noting is this is with the stock Intel retail heatsink.
With my 2 128 Samsung PC800's running at PC1200 I can get into XP no prob and run cpu and memory benchmarks but 3d Mark 2001 crashed shortly after starting. However with the rambus left at the 3X multiplier (PC800), the 150fsb at 2.4 gig is very stable and will run everything I've thrown at it so far. So my memory will handle PC1100 but that's about it, still not too shabby. I purchased these sticks Sept last year from Mushkin. I have 2 more 128 Samsung's that unbeknownst to me till yesterday are actually ECC sticks (we had mistakenly labeled them as non-ecc where I work). They cooperated fine together but didn't like overclocking above about 120fsb. I'll swap them tomorrow for 2 non ECC sticks and see if they perform any better. I want to be able to use all 4 sticks and still overclock of course though.
With my 2 128 Samsung PC800's running at PC1200 I can get into XP no prob and run cpu and memory benchmarks but 3d Mark 2001 crashed shortly after starting. However with the rambus left at the 3X multiplier (PC800), the 150fsb at 2.4 gig is very stable and will run everything I've thrown at it so far. So my memory will handle PC1100 but that's about it, still not too shabby. I purchased these sticks Sept last year from Mushkin. I have 2 more 128 Samsung's that unbeknownst to me till yesterday are actually ECC sticks (we had mistakenly labeled them as non-ecc where I work). They cooperated fine together but didn't like overclocking above about 120fsb. I'll swap them tomorrow for 2 non ECC sticks and see if they perform any better. I want to be able to use all 4 sticks and still overclock of course though.
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