Clocking on a Pentium 4 platform?

[FragTek]

Hey guys. Well my mATX mobo and such comes in today for my SFF build using the 2.4ghz Northy I have. I completely skipped the P4 erra, never owned one, was a hardcore AMD fanboy at that point.

So my question is, what are the dependencies for P4 clocking? From what I can remember, don't the P4's have unlocked multi's and you get most of your clocking jollies off of raising the multi through the roof?

How RAM dependent is the P4 clocking process, will I be totally crippled using my bargain bin PQI DDR-333?

Just a few questions before I get started tonight Thx in advance.

 

[JN]

P4 isn't too different to C2D mate. All P4's are multi locked, but iirc some of the newer ones allow downward multi selection for the C1E function to work.

Its mostly about the FSB with P4's, and on one of the newer C2D ready mobo's you should be able to get the best out of it.

The 2.4 Northy was a good clocker (mine hit 3.6), but the voltage is lower than the prescotts so beware of that. In general the prescotts overclocked a little further too, but the northwoods are faster clock-for-clock.

 

[Ham]

478 was pretty similar to conroe tbh. NB strap too worry about, voltage is the same .2 higher on air. Dividers are the same as any DDR Machines.

Will be simple as pie frag. They clock pretty dam high too.

And jim that 2.4ghz from teh server is a prescott cellery!! (Its in my beching unit now)

 

[FragTek]

Hopefully this mobo will let me divide the crap out of the RAM, I think it's going to be a bottleneck. Actually the mobo itself will probably be a pretty big bottleneck, it's an MSI PM8M-V w/ the VIA P4M800 chipset.

I guess I'll have to see how good the clocking options in the BIOS are.

 

[equk]

All I did with my northwood was set FSB to 250 and use RAM dividers (5:4 or sommit?)

 

[Mr. Popo]

Ah... Northwood, the good times.

(Don't mind the fact I'm using it right now)

Remember buying an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe for my 2GHz Northwood...

 

[FragTek]

Nice mate, hopefully I can get some good clocks out of her. I'd love to pick up that added 1ghz of speed

 

[Ham]

Hopefully this mobo will let me divide the crap out of the RAM, I think it's going to be a bottleneck. Actually the mobo itself will probably be a pretty big bottleneck, it's an MSI PM8M-V w/ the VIA P4M800 chipset.

I guess I'll have to see how good the clocking options in the BIOS are.

Erg. My Via 800 chip board only did 3.01ghz on a northy. Stuck it in a 865 (i think) Abit IS7 and got a WR

Wish you luck however!

 

[FragTek]

Erg. My Via 800 chip board only did 3.01ghz on a northy. Stuck it in a 865 (i think) Abit IS7 and got a WR

Wish you luck however!

I didn't imagine the board would be worth a f*ck for clockin', but better than nothing!

 

[Mr. Popo]

I didn't imagine the board would be worth a f*ck for clockin', but better than nothing!

From what I remember, the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe is the king of OC.