Can you gain much from OCing a P4?
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gotmaxpower
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It will gain you a noticeable performance increase, and lots of heat with that.
There are lots of physical ways to mod it for heat, for example directing a household fan at the case, or taking the side panel off and opening some windows is sometimes a decent remedy for losing a couple of degrees. Nothing too drastic can be made without spending a little bit on buying new equipment.
There are lots of physical ways to mod it for heat, for example directing a household fan at the case, or taking the side panel off and opening some windows is sometimes a decent remedy for losing a couple of degrees. Nothing too drastic can be made without spending a little bit on buying new equipment.
Youngie1337
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Lapping apparently is a good thing to do, might do when get new watercooling 
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.gotmaxpower
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name='Youngie1337' said:Lapping apparently is a good thing to do, might do when get new watercooling
That aswell.
A decent lapped CPU and a good aftermarket cooler can prove better than watercooling in most cases.
SwaleSmith
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not being funny but before I'd throw £££ on upgrades like WC I'd rather hang on and buy a Core2 they will soon be cheaper
°TheMadDutchDude°
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They're cheap enough as it is mate, get yourself a cheap E2200 or something, or E5200, they're pretty much the same price, and you will GUARANTEED see a massive improvement to your current PC. Get it with a P43 motherboard, a 2x1GB DDR2-800 kit and you're set.
This will require a reinstall of Windows by the way
Make sure the PSU is up to it, if not.. get a Hiper 530w, that is more than ample for your needs 
This will require a reinstall of Windows by the way
Make sure the PSU is up to it, if not.. get a Hiper 530w, that is more than ample for your needs name='°TheMadDutchDude°' said:They're cheap enough as it is mate, get yourself a cheap E2200 or something, or E5200, they're pretty much the same price, and you will GUARANTEED see a massive improvement to your current PC. Get it with a P43 motherboard, a 2x1GB DDR2-800 kit and you're set.
This will require a reinstall of Windows by the way
Well I'm going to have to buy a core 2 because the bottleneck from the P4 on the HD2900 makes it normally stick at 40FPS, no lower and no higher. I got a new mobo for £30 which supports Core2 and was supposed to take 800mhz but the specs where wrong on Aria.co.uk and the new Geil Ram I got is stuck at 667mhz, Also the new mobo doesn't support Dual channel so I was thinking, whats better? My older mobo that supports Core2 also goes at 667mhz but on dual channel, or my newer one that goes at 667mhz doesn't support dual channel but can be oced to 800mhz, losing CL from 4 to 5.
SwaleSmith
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name='lf751' said:
Me persoanly the core 2 platform
SwaleSmith
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sorry misread your question I would go with the dual channel board as I would imagine the difference in frequency would be pretty un-noticable
