My second ever OC

[lf751]

Well my first OC was a long time ago on my old 6200, So now My PC has a HD2900 but I'm stuck with this P4 3.2 and I thought it's time for an oc. I searched first since I'm new to this luckily found a website that overclocked the same P4 on the same board! so I just used what they used and got it to go at 3.8! and it was fine, although I'm keeping it at 3.6 just in case.

 

[!TIMMY!]

Nice, if your temps are not too high then go for the 3.8

 

[Toxcity]

Thats pretty impressive!

Make sure you keep it cool, P4s get very hot.

 

[PV5150]

Well my first OC was a long time ago on my old 6200, So now My PC has a HD2900 but I'm stuck with this P4 3.2 and I thought it's time for an oc. I searched first since I'm new to this luckily found a website that overclocked the same P4 on the same board! so I just used what they used and got it to go at 3.8! and it was fine, although I'm keeping it at 3.6 just in case.

Nicely done mate. What temps are we talking and what cooling are you using?

Thats pretty impressive!

Make sure you keep it cool, P4s get very hot.

Northwood chips were fine, it was Prescott that had major heat issues.

 

[Toxcity]

Oh I see, what would be the difference between them?

 

[PV5150]

I'm keeping it really simple to save typing lots and lots lol

*Northwood cores are based on a 130nm process whereas the Prescott was based on a 90nm process. (more transistors on smaller node size sees an increase in waste heat)

* 20 stage pipeline for Northwood - 31 stage for Prescott.

* Higher clock speed and subsequent ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) for Prescott = more heat

Soz for the off-topic

 

[Toxcity]

Ah, gottcha.

Anywhoo, back on topic, that is a respectable OC.. what are the temps like.

Do you think you could get it to 4Ghz?

 

[lf751]

It sais it's going at around 40...not much more than before and it's on the stock cooler.

 

[vinhbuddha]

thats pretty good