What is the best P4 overclocking chipset?

[ChrisADuffy]

Thanks.

 

[Booster]

I think the absolute winner would be the i850 with RDRAM, but it's expensive. The i845D also yields pretty good results.
SiS 645DX is also OCable, but some people on this board change their SiS 645DX systems to i845D b/c of better OCability of the latter. Anyway, the difference is very slight, IMO.

 

[dexvx]

RDram (Asus p4t-E / Abit TH7II) but only if you know what you're doing (might wanna search teh forums for more info), but its not that much more expensive.

 

[ChrisADuffy]

bump

 

[oldfart]

845 chipsets are getting the highest overclocks.

 

[link26]

both rdram and ddr solutions can get high overclocking results. If you look at overclocking databases, alot of high overclocks are with the 850 chipset, but the 845 and sis645 chips can get high results as well.
I'm running a TH7ii and it is doing fine. I'm not going to push it any further until I get extra cooling. I only have 2 case fans right now.

obviously, overclocking depends on whether you get that lucky cpu or not.

 

[Ausm]

I would go with the sis 645 myself

Ausm

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< 845 chipsets are getting the highest overclocks. >>

Not really. I was running my Pentium 4/2000A at 3.2GHz up until very recently (I slowed it down to 3GHz out of voltage concerns) on my ABIT TH7II, which is an i850 chipset. The i850, i845 (A stepping and B stepping), and SiS 645 (A stepping and B stepping) are all known to overclock well, and I believe the VIA P4X266A and P4X333 overclock well, as well. I recommend the i850, as it uses the higher bandwidth RDRAM, which all scales better than DDR SDRAM.

 

[Zukatah]

I suggest not buying VIA.... I've heard about lots of problems with them.

 

[Thor86]

P4 1.6, Asus P4T-E with ics clock gens, Original Samsung low density module ram (128x8, 256x16, and not Kingston brands!).

The mobo and ram are especially expensive than other combos, but this setup seems to be the most stable.

More info:
Link.

 

[ChrisADuffy]

Thanks for all the advice.

 

[Zukatah]

The highest overclocks are seen with i845 and SiS645 but the best performance is still with Rambus and i850. WIth i850, your CPU won't go that high but the system will be faster.

 

[gpanda]

So what is the best speed Northwood to go with if you want to go with the RDRAM board (ABIT TH7II-RAID let's say).
How about the RDRAM itself...what's the best to buy? Samsung..Corsair? I figure on 512MB total...so I guess 2x256MB RIMMs?

 

[THUGSROOK]

since he said "the best overclocking chipset" ill take that as "which chipset overclocks the highest".
if thats the case ....the flat out winner is the i845D.
i can run my system upto 175fsb w/o a wire mod on air cooling ...top that

 

[gpanda]

Regarding the Abit TH7II, I keep reading about the on board clock needing to be swapped out to support 133MHz FSB. Should I just wait for the 850E stuff, when can we expect to see 850E boards? I am a bit worried about P4 1.6a's disappearing.