Finally hit 4GHz!

techmonkey · 12 Jan 2006 at 02:52

I know I'm not the first to do this but it's still the first time I've actually managed it.

It's been about 24 hours since I tried testing my new PSU and everythings seems stable.

Before all I could raise my FSB to was 220, anything past that and my rig would get stuck on the POST. I started by raising it to 225 and Windows booted. I then thought, sod it and raised it to 240 and tried again. Hey presto, 24 hours of Folding @ Home later and everything seems ok.

As I've said before, my RAM is Corsiar Value Select so I've set it's divider to "PC2700" in the BIOS which means it's actually operateing at it's rated speed of 400MHz. Timings are 2.5-3-3-8 1T. I'm pretty impressed because I'm running on air cooling at the moment.

Obviously I haven't been infront of my rig all day but I've just been playing Q4 with Folding in the background and as soon as I came out my CPU temp was 47*C so it looks all good for now.

It just goes to show that a decent PSU really does give impressive results.

3Dmark2003 - 18744
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4544063

3Dmark2005 - 8255
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1686929

Webzta · 12 Jan 2006 at 03:58

Which cpu are you running ?

n3x · 12 Jan 2006 at 09:02

Intel Pentium 4 4088 MHz!

4ghz with a gtx and only 8255?

Im glad i stuck with amd - 7900 <--3dmark05

welshtom · 12 Jan 2006 at 09:49

sounds like a 2.8 or 3.2 ghz p4?

socket 478?

Tom

the.m · 12 Jan 2006 at 10:07

Nice to hit the 4 GHz mark. well done mate.

Matt_Hirst · 12 Jan 2006 at 10:46

Congratulations on the result.

regards,

Matt

P.S. What PSU have you got?

Firestar_3x · 12 Jan 2006 at 16:54

Well done, i hit just past the 4ghz mark 1 1/2 years ago using a 3.2Ghz P4 a Vapo / watercooling on the Mobo / GFX + AC unit blowing into the case.

DanMc07 · 12 Jan 2006 at 17:21

wish mine was stable at that :O i can run it fine at 4.25, then get a blu screen of death after about 2 hours

[Death] · 12 Jan 2006 at 18:14

nice overclock, congrats

jadeskye · 12 Jan 2006 at 19:18

4.1Ghz on a good old northy ^_^. go you!

WJA96 · 12 Jan 2006 at 20:50

DanMc07 said:
wish mine was stable at that :O i can run it fine at 4.25, then get a blu screen of death after about 2 hours

Me too. It's really frustrating. Is it temperature related, do you think?

DanMc07 · 12 Jan 2006 at 21:18

^^

Not sure as my temp usually varies, but I never hit over 50, so I cant see that been it

Saying that, thats without upping the volts, as My CPU voltage is greyed out and wont let me up it :O

Naffa · 12 Jan 2006 at 21:39

nice one mate.

caister · 12 Jan 2006 at 21:57

yeah mine runs fine at anything over 4ghz until i play a game or do some video encoding isnt even hot its really annoying! Well done on breaking the barrier though

Legless · 12 Jan 2006 at 23:12

Nice overclock m8... Gets me in the mood to puch my overclocker further...

TheGreatGrrrr · 13 Jan 2006 at 01:16

What's your super pi 1mb and 3dmark 01 score?

sargatanas · 13 Jan 2006 at 02:54

youre so lucky, i have been trying desperately to get 4ghz, and the highest i have managed is 3.927 . gonna keep trying, i hope my 30capper is up to it on air.

techmonkey · 14 Jan 2006 at 10:10

Thanks everyone!

I've changed the CPU-Z/Temp link to an image so people can see what CPU it is. It's only a 600MHz or so overclock but I'm happy with it. I haven't tried to go higher and probably won't as I don't want to push my luck. I've had my rig running Folding @ Home 24/7 over the past day or so and it looks all good.

I'll run a few more benchies sometime today and post em here. As for "only" getting 8255 in 3Dmark2005, bear in mind that to get 10,000+ normally requires SLi. Nevertheless I'm happy with my rigs setup now.

My full specs;

Intel Pentium 4 650 HT @ 4.09GHz
Corsair 1GB (4x256MB) DDR PC3200 @ 400MHz (5:4) CL 2.5-3-3-8 1T
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 CPU HSF
Asus 915PL
XFX Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX Extreme Edition @ 500MHz/1330MHz
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 64MB
Maxtor 240GB (2x120GB) SATA HDD's
Asus 16X DVDROM
Asus 16X Dual Layer DVDRW
Tagan 530W Easycon PSU
Asus 25A Chassis
Samsung 930BF 19" LCD
Creative Gigaworks S750

techmonkey · 14 Jan 2006 at 15:58

TheGreatGrrrr said:
What's your super pi 1mb and 3dmark 01 score?

Here's 3DMark2001SE for now;

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8863977

SuperPie 1MB

31 seconds, I'm not sure if thats any good.

matt100 · 15 Jan 2006 at 01:35

4ghz is a lovely number.. I miss my p4s for the wicked clockspeeds they could pull...

OT.. is that bird on your desktop cross eyed or is it just me?