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I recently bought a 2.4 ghz p4, and a Gigabyte Motherboard, Model GA-8IHXP. I seen on tomshardware.com that he overclocked a 2.2 to 3100 with watercooling. So i ordered a 260 dallor water cooling kit for the cpu. Now I would like to know if i would be able to overclock this cpu. The motherboard comes with a program which allows me to adjust the voltage and fsb and multipliers. Where should i start?
Thanks for your suggestion. Obert
Overclocking really depend on the computer component, even tho. you might see a PC that can overclock it over 3.0Ghz, it DOES NOT mean it will apply to yours.
Increase FSB to the highest and vCore to the highstk and see it the system will crash. If it does then lower the FSB frequendy. If you want to do it another way, you can change the multipliers higher.
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don't P4's have the multiplier locked???
I was under the assumption that u cant up the FSB on intel chips? Am I retarded?
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Let me get this straight. You don't know much about overclocking, voltages and so on, but you have bought a WATER cooling kit????
Lol, well, you are a brave one! I wish you well.
HANG ON! $260.00??????????
For the price of the 2.4ghz cpu and the kit you could BUY a 3.0 ghz cpu next month when they release them for sale!!!!!!
Just for anyone else researching water cooling that might read this posting, that is VERY expensive.
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if you really want to get you cpu overclocked, you will need to turn the voltage up. so when you get it to 3ghz the board is going to feed the processor enough juice to run correctly. And you are going to want to get that cpu as cold as you can get it. try putting ice cubes in your water to keep it cold.
Good Luck
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Another thing you can not up the multiplier, because the intel cpu's and locked, just like the AMD chips. But i have not yet found anyone who has tryed to unlock them, so it maybe impossible to do. But if your motherboard will let you adjust the FSB, you should be able to get it to 200. which will take you to about 4.8ghz.
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I wouldnt touch it because THATS EXPENIVE!!!!!!!!!!
yo ucan burn it, frie it and so on..... so i' rther no touch it i have a AMD athlon 1700+( 1.5 )overclcoked to a 2000+ (1.65) and my temp has gon up 5 degrees
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Thanks for your comments, i read them carefully. Well I know you can't change the multipliers for p4 because it's locked. But maybe I can raise the FSB and voltage, and the watercooling does help. yes 260 DOLLARS! Costy but its really slilent, you won't get annoyed from all those fans. Thanks agian for the advice. I seen a 2.4 ghz p4 go to 3,100 ghz. Check out http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020117/index.html
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God, the amount of ignorance regarding OCing.
Lets get something straight - all chips can be overclocked usually via a FSB increase on a MB that supports this feature. NO PIII or 4 chips can have their multipliers changed where as a AMD can when it has been unlocked (a reasonably difficult process).
How high - depends on the chip and how well it is in Specification. They don't make, say a batch of 2.2 Mhz chips. They make a series of silicon chips wafers and test then to see which ones reach what speed and how well into spec they are. As such, when Tom's hardware Oced a 2.2 to 3.1 Ghz they may have only made 2.8 or 3.0 Ghz with a different chip stating the same starting speed if that chip was not as well made.
So asking will my chip make X Ghz is not a valid question. Some will, some won't, some will need a bigger Vcore voltage than others. Some will boot and run - some will post and crash - it all depends on the ability of each SPECIFIC chip.
For example - I have had a Celeron 566 (66 Mhz FSB) running at 850 Mhz (100 Mhz) since the day we bought it. I have a Celeron 800 Mhz (100 FSB) running at 900 Mhz for a while before it 'burnt in' and now have been running it at 1080 (135 Mhz) since that day. The first one runs stably with only a .10 Vcore voltage increase where the other celeron had to have up to .25 Vcore voltage increase to run with stabilty (Never increase a Vcore by more than 25% of its original it a sure sign of death to your processor later but probably sooner).
So have a go increase that FSB and OC the chip. Failure to get a GOOD OC is not a chip problem though - the FSB increases will cause all AGp, PCI busses and RAM to run outa spec unles you have a great OC motherboard (I like ASUS) which has the appropriate multipliers or where you can set the AGP/PCI speed independent to what the FSB is doing. Thatis why I have always aimed to get the chip from one FSB standard to the next (ie 66 Mhz to 100, 100 to 133, 133 to 166 etc.)
I hope this helps the newbies.
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