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What to buy to keep my P4 2.4 cool?

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Originally posted by: BSC14
I see.

Well these guys are saying it's a good cpu to oc.

HERE

I wouldn't know but I was hoping for similar results. They got it up to 3.3ghz.
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I have the same CPU in one of my machines and I tried to O/C when I initially set it up and it would keep freezing up. I am afraid, you are probably not going to have much luck with this, sorry.
 
Originally posted by: wpshooter
Originally posted by: BSC14
I see.

Well these guys are saying it's a good cpu to oc.

HERE

I wouldn't know but I was hoping for similar results. They got it up to 3.3ghz.
Click to expand...


I have the same CPU in one of my machines and I tried to O/C when I initially set it up and it would keep freezing up. I am afraid, you are probably not going to have much luck with this, sorry.
Click to expand...

So much good new today.
 
Don't listen to BlingBling. I had a 2.4c that I got up to 3.1ghz, but the XP-90 is a better cooler than what I had at the time, so you may get more. Once you get up to 3ghz or more, it won't be a huge bottleneck for the 6800GT. And as unlike what bling says, northwoods scale better than prescotts when overclocking. My 3.06ghz northwood@3.45ghz was faster than my prescott@3.82ghz in a lot of things, gaming being one of them. Just make sure you use a divider for the memory, so that ram doesn't becoming your limiting factor for overclocking.
 
The 2.4c you have should reach 3,2ghz and up with any quality cooler and ram. So it will help your performance. I believe what others really mean is even at that type of overclock you are still
a ways away from the top performing CPUs of today. I would get one of the coolers mentioned above with some AS5 and start raising the fsb. Find your chips sweet spot and when your not
taking care of your kid, enjoy your games.
 
Cool, thanks guys.

I think I'll look at getting that XP-90 next month or so after I have moved everything in my new case and I have had some time to test out the temps and all.

Thanks again.
 
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