how do you overclock a cpu?
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doubt it, watercooling is a little expensive if you havent heardMe__2001 said:
ive been able to get a good overclock with air cooling, but i had to get new CPU cooler and more fans.
First thing ill tell you, i hope you know the risks involved in overclocking, second, other members (Flops, Mucks) will tell you its a bad idea and try to steer you away (they tried with me
)Third, i dont know how to OC a Pentium 4
gimme a few minutes and ill get you a good site to get info on OCing on...
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/
Read up, and dont ask alot of silly questions as some or most people will jump on you...
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-8192.php
if you want to read the thread
Read up, and dont ask alot of silly questions as some or most people will jump on you...
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-8192.php
if you want to read the thread
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Why do you people need to OC? SPEED is not everything! I prefer QUALITY!
With the correct quality speed will be accomplished without the need for OC.
Treat your computer with care and attention the rest will fall into place.
I built my Beauty two years ago it has never crashed=frozen=or let me down in any way.
When you are about to purchase and or build a PC work out before hand what you intend to use it for Graphics, music, video, Etc: then acquire or build one to suit your needs.
With the correct quality speed will be accomplished without the need for OC.
Treat your computer with care and attention the rest will fall into place.
I built my Beauty two years ago it has never crashed=frozen=or let me down in any way.
When you are about to purchase and or build a PC work out before hand what you intend to use it for Graphics, music, video, Etc: then acquire or build one to suit your needs.
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download this it will allow you to OC straight from the desktop, its not permanent the speed will reset after reboot but it will give you an idea how far you can push it make sure you keep an eye on the temp off the CPU it will get really hot and can be damaged if it gets too hot
only increase in 10Mhz incriments and be careful
http://www.cpuid.org/cg.php?cgid=ICS952618
when you find a stable speed you can set it in the BIOS so its permanent
only increase in 10Mhz incriments and be careful
http://www.cpuid.org/cg.php?cgid=ICS952618
when you find a stable speed you can set it in the BIOS so its permanent
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Alf said:First thing ill tell you, i hope you know the risks involved in overclocking, second, other members (Flops, Mucks) will tell you its a bad idea and try to steer you away (they tried with me
Oi oi oi! Enough already, I have been unjustly represented
As far as I know, I have never spoken out against overclocking, in fact I'd encourage it. Why else would I pay extra for a DFI board?
Using spec in my sig, my XP3200's running 200Mhz over spec at 2.4Ghz. And it's stable.
I used Clockgen within OS to see how far it would go before it crashed, then set BIOS. I can store around four different BIOS's on the DFI board, and switch between them, which is good.
If I had better RAM, I could probably go higher, I think that's my weak link.
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Hah, whoops sorry bout that Flopsfloppybootstomp said:Oi oi oi! Enough already, I have been unjustly represented
As far as I know, I have never spoken out against overclocking, in fact I'd encourage it. Why else would I pay extra for a DFI board?
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i though you frowned down on that, cause i posted a similar question in my early days. (i read your post wrong
)uhh... Go with Flops... Overclock like theres no tommorrow
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Hi there,
Firstly, before overclocking, you should be aware that by OCing you will find that you void most of your components warranties (although it would be difficult for a manufacturer to prove that OCing was the cause if a component went wrong), also as mentioned by other members you will probabally have to upgrade your cooling to better air cooling or even a watercooling setup depending on the scale of the OC you want to achieve.
In order to OC a P4, you normally have to increase the fsb speed via BIOS, as P4's have locked multiplier settings (unlike AMD's). By increasing the fsb speed this means that you will also be increasing the operating speed of your memory, so you may also have to look into upgrading your memory also (to something like DDR500, instead of the DDR400 that I presume you're already using).
It can be a long and laborious process to achieve a stable OC!
You should go into BIOS and raise the fsb speed 1MHz at a time, then save settings, restart, boot into windows and see if your computer is running stably. If it is stable, then you can go back to BIOS, increase another 1MHz, save settings and boot back into windows again. Keep doing this until Windows crashes (where you'll have to go back to BIOS and change back to the last stable fsb Speed.
Depending how much you try to OC, you may also have to increase the CPU's core voltage (vcore), to keep the system running stably.
Throughout your OC process, do constantly moniter your CPU temp to see if it gets too hot or not.
So, you will find your main limits are CPU temp, how far your mobo will allow you to increase the fsb, and the speed of your memory.
Happy OCing!
Firstly, before overclocking, you should be aware that by OCing you will find that you void most of your components warranties (although it would be difficult for a manufacturer to prove that OCing was the cause if a component went wrong), also as mentioned by other members you will probabally have to upgrade your cooling to better air cooling or even a watercooling setup depending on the scale of the OC you want to achieve.
In order to OC a P4, you normally have to increase the fsb speed via BIOS, as P4's have locked multiplier settings (unlike AMD's). By increasing the fsb speed this means that you will also be increasing the operating speed of your memory, so you may also have to look into upgrading your memory also (to something like DDR500, instead of the DDR400 that I presume you're already using).
It can be a long and laborious process to achieve a stable OC!
You should go into BIOS and raise the fsb speed 1MHz at a time, then save settings, restart, boot into windows and see if your computer is running stably. If it is stable, then you can go back to BIOS, increase another 1MHz, save settings and boot back into windows again. Keep doing this until Windows crashes (where you'll have to go back to BIOS and change back to the last stable fsb Speed.
Depending how much you try to OC, you may also have to increase the CPU's core voltage (vcore), to keep the system running stably.
Throughout your OC process, do constantly moniter your CPU temp to see if it gets too hot or not.
So, you will find your main limits are CPU temp, how far your mobo will allow you to increase the fsb, and the speed of your memory.
Happy OCing!