Overclocking

The-K-Man · 12-01-2004, 09:23 PM

Hi,

I have an Intel P4 2.8Ghz running on a MSI board, not my machine so don't know the model but it supports
FSB 800, there's a good fan in it running at 5273 rpm but can be turned up a bit more but really loud when
turned up full. It running at 215Mhz x 14= 3012MHz. The CPU is at 49C. How high can I up the MHz on this?
how hot can you run the P4's, SAFELY?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge, I'm a AMD man.

Thanks in advance.....

The-K-Man.

12-01-2004, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by The-K-Man@Dec 1 2004, 03:23 PM
Hi,

I have an Intel P4 2.8Ghz running on a MSI board, not my machine so don't know the model but it supports
FSB 800, there's a good fan in it running at 5273 rpm but can be turned up a bit more but really loud when
turned up full. It running at 215Mhz x 14= 3012MHz. The CPU is at 49C. How high can I up the MHz on this?
how hot can you run the P4's, SAFELY?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge, I'm a AMD man.

Thanks in advance.....

The-K-Man.

I've had my processor up to 60C and everything was still stable. :thumbup:

The better the ram you have, the better chances of OCin' up to a higher Mhz
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memo...c_4200_platinum

I use 3D Mark to tell me how much the clock will go up to. For example my P4 is a 3Ghz but it has a maximum clock speed of 3.6Ghz. :thumbup:

I have had this close to that, but never acheived the full 3.6Ghz as the processer gets too hot and the P.C. then cuts out

noobman · 12-01-2004, 09:51 PM

and with a good watercooling kit you can overclock more

The-K-Man · 12-01-2004, 10:04 PM

Hi,

The ram is not great but that's what's in it and no more money will be getting spend any time soon. I'm
downloading 3DMark just now, 178MB file, it will take a few hours but thanks for the suggestion. I've
increased the FSB to 510 and now running at 2940MHz. I'll monitor the CPU temp. for a while and maybe up
it a bit more later.

Thanks for all your help :thumbup:

12-01-2004, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by The-K-Man@Dec 1 2004, 04:04 PM
Hi,

The ram is not great but that's what's in it and no more money will be getting spend any time soon. I'm
downloading 3DMark just now, 178MB file, it will take a few hours but thanks for the suggestion. I've
increased the FSB to 510 and now running at 2940MHz. I'll monitor the CPU temp. for a while and maybe up
it a bit more later.

Thanks for all your help :thumbup:

I use this to monitor the cpu and other fans, dunno if you have it already, but it's pretty good :thumbup:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_desc...fid,7309,00.asp

:thumbup:

Superflop · 12-04-2004, 04:41 AM

For overclocking, you one need to figure a temp ceiling that you wont go above, take into account the maximum average temperature for where you live in the summer. you dont want your overlcok to run fine in winter but cook you pc in summer.. second if your overclocking a pentium its all about teh FSB which is all about the Ram, get Memtest86 or newer and SuperPi, these are the two best proggies for testing ram stability i know of. on Memtest if it pases teh fifth test atleaswt 3 times in a row its almost gueranteed stable boot into windows and then run super pi atleast the 64 test or better. this will make sure your stable..

but to directly answer your question, there is no definite max overclock for any particular line of CPUS you can have one 2.4c thats will break 3.0G and you will have one that can barely touch 2.5G before running out of room.

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12-01-2004, 09:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
The-K-Man is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 16 Hellbux: 998	Hi, I have an Intel P4 2.8Ghz running on a MSI board, not my machine so don't know the model but it supports FSB 800, there's a good fan in it running at 5273 rpm but can be turned up a bit more but really loud when turned up full. It running at 215Mhz x 14= 3012MHz. The CPU is at 49C. How high can I up the MHz on this? how hot can you run the P4's, SAFELY? Please excuse my lack of knowledge, I'm a AMD man. Thanks in advance..... The-K-Man.

12-01-2004, 10:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
The-K-Man is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 16 Hellbux: 998	Hi, The ram is not great but that's what's in it and no more money will be getting spend any time soon. I'm downloading 3DMark just now, 178MB file, it will take a few hours but thanks for the suggestion. I've increased the FSB to 510 and now running at 2940MHz. I'll monitor the CPU temp. for a while and maybe up it a bit more later. Thanks for all your help :thumbup:

12-04-2004, 04:41 AM	#6 (permalink)
Superflop is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 21 Hellbux: 610	For overclocking, you one need to figure a temp ceiling that you wont go above, take into account the maximum average temperature for where you live in the summer. you dont want your overlcok to run fine in winter but cook you pc in summer.. second if your overclocking a pentium its all about teh FSB which is all about the Ram, get Memtest86 or newer and SuperPi, these are the two best proggies for testing ram stability i know of. on Memtest if it pases teh fifth test atleaswt 3 times in a row its almost gueranteed stable boot into windows and then run super pi atleast the 64 test or better. this will make sure your stable.. but to directly answer your question, there is no definite max overclock for any particular line of CPUS you can have one 2.4c thats will break 3.0G and you will have one that can barely touch 2.5G before running out of room.