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What P4 2.4 to get for overclocking???

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ronein

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HI guys...I rarely venture on this side of the forums so hopefully you can help me out.

I maybe trying to get back on the OC front (been a while since i last overclocked; fried and killed my athlon 2 years back, thats why i stopped:|).

From the price perspective, im seeing the 2.4 as cheap and good enough at ~$100 or so, with Overclocks at the 3.2 and above range.Thing is there are several varieties to go for (2.4 northwoods, B, C, MO, 1MB cached variants)...Which one to go for??...Also while youre at it, you can suggest a mobo for it as well...Nothing to fancy though...Dont want to go over $250 on the CPU/Mobo/HSF combo...BTW im going to run this on air only, no fancy water cooled or loud fan HSF.

Many thanks!
 
You want 2.4C for best/most reliable overclocks, with the least heat. Just as a side note you might want to check out a A64 2.8 with chaintech mob or other cheap mobo for overclocking, depending on what you want to do, just because I havent seen many places with 100 dollar 2.4c, and 2800+ and 2.4c tend to be pretty close in price retail.
 
2.4c would be the best OC'r of the bunch, I had mine at 3.1ghz on air. The B, runs on 533fsb, and doesnt' have hyperthreading, and doesn't get as good of an OC, the 1MB cache version, is the prescott 2.4a, that also doesn't have hyperthreading and runs on the 533mhz FSB. The 2.4c runs on the 800mhz FSB and has hyperthreading. I believe there is also the 2.4 that runs on the 400mhz FSB, again not as good of an OC'r and doesn't have hyperthreading. As for spending $250 total, you may not be able to get a decent enough heatsink for a real good overclock. Abit IC7(or something like that) and Asus P4P800 series motherboards are good for OC'ing P4's. I have my prescott 2.8 at 3.5 on a p4p800.
 
Cool, yeah i agree with others here the 2.4c is the one to get (the best northwood chip imo) I have a 2.4C that does 3.6 with air (300FSB M0)
 
why would you get a 2.4C when a A64 offers so much more? It's not even close. A 2800 OCed to 2500Mhz will spank that 2.4C up to 3600Mhz (which you aint going to get). Since it's $25 cheaper I really don't understand...


Ok with that outta the way. I recommend the 2.4C since it's best P4. It's cooler, runs faster clock for clock than any P4 and has hyperthreading too... only negative is no sse3 which is no biggie since nothing uses it really.

For mobo, the Abit AI7 is great. Can reliably hit 300Mhz FSB, has all the bells and whistles for $90 and is built by ABIT IMO other than DFI the best mobo maker.
http://www.hardocp.com/articleprint.html?article_id=541
 
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