?'s regarding northwood overclocking.

[FrozenAthlon]

This is my new P4 rig I have ordered:
- P4 1.8a w/ Abit TH7II-RAID
- 1GB Samsung PC-800 RDRAM
- ABIT TH7II-RAID I850

Replaced:
- AMD XP2000+
- Epox 8kha+ KT266a
- 512mb Mushkin PC2100 DDR

Here are my list of questions:

1. Since I'm converting from an AMD platform and not very informed with Intel's overclocking, I wanted basic tips on where to start.
Maybe a brief definition of those dividers/ratios/Intel's FSB/etc...

2. I read some things regarding the overclocking ability of RDRAM and since I'm Dealing with RDRAM for the first time, Are there any special memory timings or tweaks I should use to get the most performance. I know its rated CAS2.

3. I'm pretty vell informed about voltages, increases stabability but raises temps. Where are the limits. I shouldn't raise my voltage on my RAM/CPU past a certain point.. Also what is too hot for the NW.

4. After all is said and done messing inside the BIOS, I'm ready to test out my newly o/c'ed P4 hopefully around the 2.4-2.6ghz range. Fingers are crossed. What program do you recommend using for a PC stress test making sure everything is stable and ready to use without the fear of those horrid crashes/BSOD and data lose/corruption.

I'm done. Thanks in advance.
Frozen

 

[Jwyatt]

Im not using the RDRAM. Just setup my first P4 system to. Havnt retired my XP1700 just yet. Basically its all the same. Increasing the FSB will increase the FSB on the ram. Just tinker around with it and you'll see its the same, but different.

As far as stress testing Ive ran prime 95 in all OSs I have. Win98, WIn2000Server,WinXP. All of them are doing fine OCed to 160fsb. Although I did start out with 98 because ive read ntfs is less stable overclocking the pci buss, but i cant tell the difference.

 

[FrozenAthlon]

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[Nate420]

Prime95
MemTest86
3DMark2001SE

If you can run those three apps without error, that's as stable as it gets IMO.