This is for Intel overclockers

[Hacksalot]

Since everyone seems to be overclocking and making an AMD post, ive decided to make a Intel overclocking thread. If anyone owns any LGA prescotts please post your overclocks here. Currently I managed to clock my 3.2 prescott to a 3.6. Pretty impressive since it's with a crap stock heatsink, with a crap thermal pad. When I get my new heatsink which will probably be next week ill post my new overclock.

 

[stevty2889]

What about trusty socket 478's?
2.8e prescott running at 3.5ghz, thermalright sp-94, 92mm panaflo, as5
1.6ghz mobile p4 northwood, 1.2v, thermaltake hsf, 2.66ghz, only limited by current motherboard

 

[RussianSensation]

I dont have a presc*hot* but my P4 2.6 overclocks to 3.06 ghz on 1.52 voltage on my 350 watt power supply with 12V@12A.

Going to get a new power supply soon since I plan on upgrading to a better videocard too. Hopefully that'll improve overclocking as well.

 

[Acanthus]

Ive got my 3.2E + Abit AG-8 + 6600GT + XP120 w/120mm panaflo on the way now

Hoping for 3.8, 4.0 would be ideal (running OCZ 4200 Gold @ 1:1)

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The Prescott 478-pin "E" CPU and the Prescott LGA775 "E" have different temperature profiles.

Apparently, the socket LGA775 design creates less electrical resistance, and so generates less heat, making it more "over-clockable" -- provided it is stable at low temps.

For my system, I had bought the mobo -- an ASUS P4P800 "standard" with ICH5 RAID, NIC, audio -- around December '03 -- just hanging onto it until I could complete an assessment as to what other components to choose. That i865PE board had some incarnations of "E" and "Deluxe" -- still pretty popular. So I had to stick with Northwood options. As far as I can tell with the mobo purchase, the only thing I missed was the Promise Tech Raid controller added into the mix. My BIOS upgrade has a file date of October or November '04.

I think in the '04 "Dream Machine" by Maximum PC magazine, they used a 3.4E and pushed it to around 3.97 on a PCI-X ASUS P5AD2 mobo -- using air-cooling and a ThermalTake HSF.

A friend sent me the 12-month graph of statistics comparing Intel and AMD stock growth. That is, the value of the stock increased by x1 percent in month 1, x2 in month 2 etc. AMD's increase in stock value was approximately double that of Intel during the last two months, reflecting expectations of expanded market share with the new Athlon 64 FX-55. But this is still just a "short-run" snapshot, and you would have to confirm the release-date of Intel's 3.8EE CPU -- which is likely to be the last in the P4-PRescott line. Were the benchmark comparisons between the "lastest" AMD and "Latest" Intel inclusive of the latest release?

They'll try and trump AMD -- and with Intel's resources, I'd look into the next year for something new.

If you just finished building a Northwood-based system and especially after buying, trying, experimenting, reconfiguring, tweaking and improving it over several months time as I did, the short-run market developments are no reason to dump it and go find the newest. Nor is it reason to change your plans concerning next year's build, (unless you can afford to build two, three or more annually or once monthly), but keep your eye open for innovations and developments which may "shift" your plans this way or that way.

 

[LTC8K6]

The FX55 will have very little market share, like the FX53 and the P4EE's.

The P4 3.8E chips were hitting 4.2 on air. We also still have the 2MB L2 cache Prescotts to come yet.

Intel's retail heatsinks are actually quite good as is the TIM pad.

 

[jv]

How would this combination work?

Abit IC7 (or IC7-G) with the 3.2e?
Would the overclock be significant with good ram & ps?
would it be worth it to go to another chip (considering you can ALWAYS throw money at it)?

Within the last day two sales-types seemed to lean this way...

thanks,
jv

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I've had a casual interest in ABIT mobo's, only because they were among the two manufactures more frequently chosen by over-clockers -- ASUS being the other (my choice). I've had a couple of their graphics cards. I can't speak to how the board will limit or assist in OC'ing -- no guarantees from me there . . .

Again -- people like LTC8K6 have a better command of the more detailed information -- if I were going to order a socket-478 Prescott, I would make sure I had a window of time to exchange it for a cooler-running CPU if it didn't meet my expectations. I would be more optimistic about a Prescott in the socket LGA775 flavor. The main issue being heat.

On the other hand, somebody mentioned using either a ThermalRight XP120 or XP90, and I well be very interested in results with a 478-Prescott 3.2E with that heatsink and a fan with some decent CFMs.

I'm optimistic about using those high-end RAM's -- somebody mentioned OCZ 4200's @ 1:1 -- better-rated spec than my DDR500's. But there apparently are differing opinions about that on this forum, and I don't want to start an argument. They SHOULD extend your over-clocking range at 1:1 however. Barring problems with heat, I'd at least try for a 25% over-clock -- and somebody here did it with a 2.8E socket 478 -- foah shuah -- to 3.5. Stevty2889 did it with some Kingmax PC4000's.

What fan are you using on that ThermalRight SP94, Stevty2889? That was their copper heatpipe-heatsink, wasn't it? I only chose ThermalTake's PIPE101 (replaced with a TR XP120) because it was more convenient in attaching to the mobo.

 

[Todd33]

I bumped my 3Ghz P4 (Northwood) 533Mhz Asus system up to 150Mhz FSB (3.45Ghz) last night. It seems to run fine, I played a few hours of EQ2. It hit me last night that my PC2700 memory was underclocked to 133Mhz, so why not try? It's no PC800 system, but it's got life left in it. I pulled 4800 on 3dmark05 with my X800pro, this seemed inline with newer P4s at the same clockrate according to the database.

BTW I have that Zalman Al-Cu heatsink/fan.

 

[Wingznut]

Both of my LGS775 3.6's run just fine at 4.0ghz (Abit AS8 motherboard.)

 

[beatle]

I had a thread about this a couple weeks ago. There wasn't much info spread around, unfortunately.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

That Gigabyte Rocket cooler looks interesting. I've sort of finished spending chump-change on these things just to find out which is the best, but I'm definitely going to look at Gigabyte's web-page for it.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, the sp-94 is the copper heatsink with heat pipes. Can't remember the exact fan I am using, but it's a 92mm thermaltake with around 75cfm airflow, and really not that loud for the airflow.

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Both of my LGS775 3.6's run just fine at 4.0ghz (Abit AS8 motherboard.)

Stable? 24/7? What settings on the motherboard (FSB/Memory/volts)?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Stevty2889 --

I have tried the Vantec Tornado 92mm, the Blue LED Thermaltake 92mm, and the Thermaltake UFO (92mm). The latter two aren't too bad on noise -- would be better without a blowhole. The Vantec also is not too bad at LOWER RPMs -- some settings make it "groan", however. A good 92mm fan is the Zalman, which spins up to nearly 3,000 rpm, but they don't show a rated CFM throughput.

Anyway, I thought for some time that the SP94 might be a pretty good heatpipe cooler.

I may try sometime later to see if I can't push my overclock settings higher than 3.808, because I think I can reach maybe 3.9 if I loosen the memory timings. . . . "Sometime later" . . .

 

[DrMrLordX]

Any Dothan/Banias overclockers out there? I remember this guy who had his Celeron-M 1.3 OCed to 2.3 ghz, which is pretty nice, until you look at the price tag and feature set of the board he was using.

Curiously, nobody managed to give him any hard info on how to raise the vcore on that board(no BIOS option for it as I recall).

 

[Sc4freak]

LGA775 3.4E @ 4.0ghz. I got it up to 4.1ghz, but lowered it to 4.0ghz to make sure it was stable always. I'm using the stock Intel HSF and thermal pad. Motherboard is ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe, using Kingston ValueRAM (I know) DDR4200. Had to loosen the timings to 5-5-5-15 to get the CPU up to 4.0ghz. Recieving an XP-120 + fan, and some Corsair PC5400 RAM soon, lets see if I can get the CPU any higher on that!

 

[AristoV300]

3.2E @ 3.92 with 1.4125 vcore. XP-90 with 3100 RPM 92mm rpm. Idle temps 38, load 46. I am tired of people bitching about the Prescott heat already. With the D0 and E0 steppings the temps are equal if not better to the NW. I had higher temps with the same cooling on my 3.0C at 3.6.

 

[Bartokomus]

2.8c @ 3.43 @ 35C.
very happy on my P4c800-e

 

[garkon8]

Currently 3.2E@3.71 - idle 40C Load 58C

Using air cooling with a Thermalright XP-90 (this baby dropped my temps 10-15C) I have just installed PC4400 RAM, but it doesn't seem to overclock to its potential (SPD states 277Mhz 2.5-6-6-11).
Right now it's @ 14x265, anything over fails Prime95 (the RAM fails, not the CPU, I know this because at 5:4 ratio it passes Prime but at 1:1 it fails).
My mobo is holding me back, I believe I need more juice for the RAM. I can only do 2.85v max and only relax timings to 3-4-4-8 with my mobo. I started this
thread but only got one reply (not enough AMD in it, I guess). Has anybody used the OCZ DDR Booster in order to boost memory voltage?

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