P4 Prescott OC'ing Skt 478

[Paratus]

I built this machine back in the summer of 2004. It's getting a little dated but it's fine for everything I do except for gaming. That should be taken care of with a new X1950PRO on my birthday in a couple of days. I want to hold out doing a complete build for another year so I want to OC my processor a bit for some more performance.

Current Rig:
CPU: P4 3.2E Prescott SKT 478 - Stock Cooler (Please recommend a new air cooler)
CPUZ ID- Family F: Model 3: Stepping 3: Rev Co:

Mobo: Asus P4P800 E Deluxe (Intel 865 with Asus hacked PAT)

RAM: 2 Gigs - 2X512MB Corsair XMS TCCD 2-2-2-5 at default 2.75V (board max 2.85V)
2X512MB Crucial Ballistix 2-2-2-5 at default 2.8V

Currnet VC: Asus ATI 9600XT 128MB VIVO (500/600) (4pipes/128bit) (X1950PRO AGP on the way)

PSU: Coolmax Tarus 400W - 120mm fan - 18A on the single 12V rail (dips as low as 11.7 under load meas. by my DMM) (New PSU below)

Case: Coolermaster Preatorian 4X 80mm fans 2 in front, 1 rear, 1 top blow hole,

Other: HDs: 1X160GB 8mb 7200RPM WD SATA, 1X10GB WD
ODs: 1X DVD ROM, 1X DVD Burner
PCI: 1X ATI Theater 550

New Christmas Gear Waiting to be installed:
New PSU: Enermax Liberty 500W 12V1 22A 12V2 22A (32A total 12V)
New HD: WD 500 GB SATA2 16mb

New Birthday Gear:
New VC: ATI X1950 PRO AGP (not sure what brand - it's a gift)
New CPU Cooler: ??????? Please recommend one



So what I need is:

• A recommendation on what air cooler to get for a skt 478 Prescott that idles at 45C and loads at 61C stock. (System: 28C to 32C I/L

• I also need to know what kind of OC I should expect

• How to go about OC'ing my rig

• And how to stability test it

Thanks in advance!

 

[stevty2889]

Scythe Ninja plus..

 

[Paratus]

That is a huge cooler.

What type of fan would be good to pair with it?


Stevety - judging from your list of rigs you've Oc'd a lot of Intel chips. Do you recommend running the memory 1:1 or leaving it around 200 FSB with lower timings.

 

[zeeon2003]

Prescott 3.2 GHz isn't a great overclocker:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/prescott_13.html
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=1956&p=13

As you've mentioned the Ninja is one HUGE cooler... make sure if you have the space in your case....

 

[Cookie Monster]

You got a similiar PC rig as mine. Lucky that your getting a X1950pro! I got a used 6800GT AGP for my 3ghz P4 Northwood.

You could get a thermalright XP90 or XP90C with a panaflo fan. Or the tuniq tower which looks pretty good for keeping the temps down. Yea it is massive.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Paratus
That is a huge cooler.

What type of fan would be good to pair with it?


Stevety - judging from your list of rigs you've Oc'd a lot of Intel chips. Do you recommend running the memory 1:1 or leaving it around 200 FSB with lower timings.

Best to run it at 1:1, P4's are very bandwidth hungry. The ninja comes with a 120mm fan thats more than adequate. It kept my pentium-D 805(2.66ghz) at under 60c load at 3.7ghz so it should be more than enough for your P4. The ninja is better than an XP-90, the Tuniq tower is pretty much the best air cooler out there, but expensive and hard to find, not sure if it's compatible with socket 478, but I know the ninja plus is.

 

[Paratus]

Any thoughts on the Zalman 9500 CNPS?

The reason I bring it up is I'm concerned about the Ninja fitting in my case + I wouldn't have to take my mobo out to install the Zalman.

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[Paratus]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
You got a similiar PC rig as mine. Lucky that your getting a X1950pro! I got a used 6800GT AGP for my 3ghz P4 Northwood.

You could get a thermalright XP90 or XP90C with a panaflo fan. Or the tuniq tower which looks pretty good for keeping the temps down. Yea it is massive.

Well I've been living with a 9600XT so you 6800 GT is about 3x as fast. It's definately time for me to upgrade!

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Paratus
Any thoughts on the Zalman 9500 CNPS?

The reason I bring it up is I'm concerned about the Ninja fitting in my case + I wouldn't have to take my mobo out to install the Zalman.

posted via Palm Life Drive

The zalman is good too, but for socket 478 you don't need to remove the motherboard from the case for the ninja plus..it mounts to the exisiting bracket.

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: stevty2889

Originally posted by: Paratus
Any thoughts on the Zalman 9500 CNPS?

The reason I bring it up is I'm concerned about the Ninja fitting in my case + I wouldn't have to take my mobo out to install the Zalman.

posted via Palm Life Drive

The zalman is good too, but for socket 478 you don't need to remove the motherboard from the case for the ninja plus..it mounts to the exisiting bracket.

Cool - Now to do some measurements