Overclocking P4 3.2 GHz

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fej180

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I have a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor, 800 Mhz bus speed, and a motherboard that can support this "Intel Pentium 4 up to 3.20GHz @ 800MHz"...I am thinking about overclocking my processor but I dont know if my motherboard can handle it since the specs say "up to 3.2GHz". If i overclock it to a 3.4GHz, would that work? Thanks
 
fej180 said:
I have a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor, 800 Mhz bus speed, and a motherboard that can support this "Intel Pentium 4 up to 3.20GHz @ 800MHz"...I am thinking about overclocking my processor but I dont know if my motherboard can handle it since the specs say "up to 3.2GHz". If i overclock it to a 3.4GHz, would that work? Thanks
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I'm have to apologize.. I almost started to laugh... I do now want to offend you, but please.. can you tell us the rest of your computer's specs? Why on earth would you have even the slightest inkling of desire to over clock that cpu when the rest of your computer has NO WAY of keeping up with it!?!



It amazes me every time.... If you had a 2.x GHz machine... okay I could see you wanted to OC it and throwing in a new video card to play games... but that cpu???





First off I doubt your bios is unlocked... so you probably wont be able too and Second there is no reason. No matter what the OC'ers tell you... YOU WILL NOT see any difference... only your benchmarks will go up.. a little.

 
I just built the computer and I want to push it to see what it can do, thats why I am interested in overclocking it. As far as the specs go, I am pretty confident that my computer can keep up with it. I guess you probably wouldnt know since I didnt really give you the specs. But here they are.

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...-details.asp?EdpNo=1016658&sku=CP1-P4-32008PC

Motherboard: Chaintech 9CJS Zenith Intel Socket 478 ATX http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=696842&Tab=2&NoMapp=0

the video card: Chaintech GeForce FX 5700 LE
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1115444&Tab=2&NoMapp=0

The processor has a liquid cooler on it.. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1020396&sku=K450-1018

I dont know a whole lot about computers, but Im trying to learn and I want to see what I can do with this one. Maybe that information will help. I just dont want to try to overclock it and mess it up, so I figured maybe someone else would know. Thanks again.
 
Why on earth would you have even the slightest inkling of desire to over clock that cpu when the rest of your computer has NO WAY of keeping up with it!?!
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1. The RAM and mobo will keep up (almost by definition)
2. "Because I can"

It amazes me every time.... If you had a 2.x GHz machine... okay I could see you wanted to OC it and throwing in a new video card to play games... but that cpu???
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Yes SFR those are *your* views. If someone else wants to do something and wants help to go about doing it then the first order of business is to provide that help rather than challenge it :)

No matter what the OC'ers tell you... YOU WILL NOT see any difference... only your benchmarks will go up.. a little.
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Wanna bet? Im not one for benchmarks for doing fullscene rendering will save some time and unlike benchmarks -- its actually useful.



Now to answer the question....
1. You can most likely OC that
2. Read up http://www.computerforum.com/announcement.php?f=7
3. I would have said to watch the hell out for the silly temps on the Prescott but you've got that covered
 
Thanks for the help Praetor, Im still not sure whther Im going to or not, but I just wanted to know my boundaries.
 
Glad to help :) You've got watercooling to deal with the heat ... now if you've got a nice solid PSU then you should be able to get some decent OCs with that ... nothin like what the Intel Pentium4 -5x0 chips are capable of but still nice
 
I had a P4 3.2 E for a wile as long as your ram can take it just up the FSB up the vcore and ram volts do it in little steps and test it for stability as you go. I had mine over clocked to 3.9 Ghz on air cool. I think with a water cooler you can hit 3.9 GHz to. Keep in mine with pentium Most of the board is locked so when the FSB gose up everything else gose up with it. Lock your AGP,PCI clock also. Pentium 4 presscotts can take a tone of abuse just remeber to check for stablity as you go. If it was me i would start with a FSB of 220 and up my Vcore by one and ram buy one. back out run a few games and test stablity then go up 2 at a time on FSB testing it as you go. Higher the FSb higher your Vcore has to go. Anything past a FSB of 230 on intel you will need to max out volts on your ram to.

I hope this helps. Remeber 90% of the time its your ram that will kill you when OC,ing a P4 E. So if its not stable trying playing with your memory timings. If it crashes wile gaming or memory dumps thats your ram saying O hell no.
 
Praetor said:
Yes SFR those are *your* views.



Wanna bet? Im not one for benchmarks for doing fullscene rendering will save some time and unlike benchmarks -- its actually useful.



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Thanks Praetor.. I am glad that I am entitled to express my own views...





and I have dealt with game engines/authoring systems and rendering programs on a 2.8GHz Pentium with 2GB of DDR PC-2700 RAM, everything stock, and it performs pretty good. (I have versions of Rhino 3D, Maya, ORB, OpenGL, gem3D, Cipher, A6pro....) anyway... Like I said, I did not post that to offend anyone, I just still question why SOME people OC their machine(s) (I do however, understand your rationale Praetor....)
 
Thanks Praetor.. I am glad that I am entitled to express my own views...
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Always :D

and I have dealt with game engines/authoring systems and rendering programs on a 2.8GHz Pentium with 2GB of DDR PC-2700 RAM, everything stock, and it performs pretty good
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I have no doubt of that :) The only reason im convinced of the improvement is that when i went from a 1.83GHz XP2500 to a 2.6GHz chip my Bryce scenes finished significantly faster :) (as well as video encoding speeds being improved)
 
Praetor said:
Always :D


I have no doubt of that :) The only reason im convinced of the improvement is that when i went from a 1.83GHz XP2500 to a 2.6GHz chip my Bryce scenes finished significantly faster :) (as well as video encoding speeds being improved)
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Yes! That is what I was talking about.. that OC'ing I understand.... ...but when you have a 3.2Ghz etc... and still feel the need to OC it.. I just dont get it...

Its like buying a brand new Ferrari and replacing the engine.
 
LOL but 3.2GHz --> 3.6GHz can also yield time reductions on renderings and encodings :)
 
Praetor said:
LOL but 3.2GHz --> 3.6GHz can also yield time reductions on renderings and encodings
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yes I understand... but I doubt this is why he wants to OC his computer.





okay, this is turning into a broken record... on both sides.... :rolleyes:



I understand and agree that OC'ing has a benefit... where I disagree is when and why MANY people decide to OC.





my argument is that the majority of EVERYDAY computer users have no real need for OC'ing their computer... wait.. we have had this argument before.. lol ... for rehashing this argument, yet again: My bad.. ;)
 
SFR said:
Its like buying a brand new Ferrari and replacing the engine.
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Or even more precisely, buying a new Ferrari and putting a bigger exhaust system on it, that'll yield you about 15 horsepower. Are you going to notice an extra 15 hp on a car that has a 500 engine? Probably not.

With overclocking, I can see instances where one would a difference though. Allbeit smallish I guess.
 
faster

you want to talk about faster . Try going from a P4 3.2E to a 3800+. Thay whernt kiding when thay said difrence of night and day.
 
And we all know OC'ing is just plain fun anyway :P

(Helpful announcement, too, Praetor. Good job :D)
 
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well a larger exhaust will give you higher torque at lower rpm, and higher hp at mid-to high rpms....it's benificial...why don't we do the feul pressure regulator, and re-fine the air feul mixture......anyways the higher the mhz the faster the computer...wether you notice performance or not...it's still higher mhz...so it's faster...tha's why ppl do it...see....
 
anyways the higher the mhz the faster the computer
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thats not completely true, for the same CPU family it is but when you cross borders from AMD to Intel-land or more even when the same brand changes the core, you can't compare clock to clock
 
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