Overclock beginner.

[Ash-Lee]

Hi, i've got myself an old P4 3.00GHz HT to have a play around with so i don't mess up my other computer.

So far i have upped the FSB and it's running at 3.23Ghz, tested with Prime95 and i had ThrottleWatch running aswell which showed 0% all the time.

I haven't gone any further because i'm a bit concerned about the temperature shown for 'PWM' in Abits uGuru software. It's showing 79/80c!

Just need advice on what 'PWM' is and how i can go about getting that temperature down.

 

[Ash-Lee]

Thats fair enough, i was only having a play anyway.

Yes it is still running the stock cooler, i will have to look closer at the motherboard and and see if i can see how i can better cool these 'pwm's'

One thing i noticed is the temperatures from stock and overclocked didn't really vary much, but the fans did get louder! Maybe if i tinker with the way the BIOS deals with fan speeds i might get it cooler?

I did record the readings with 3dMark06, with the 3.2GHz overclock i managed an extra 30 points.......i'm guessing this isn't any difference at all?

Another question is this computer has got a 7600GT AGP card fitted....the stock cooler on this started making a racket so i replaced it with a Zalman copper cooler which also came with small heatsinks for the ram chips, how do i go about toying with that? Is there a guide on the forum somewhere for OC'ing a graphics card.

Thank for all your help.

Ash.

 

[Ash-Lee]

Seriously, the machine has so many bottlenecks for modern games and the like, overclocking it will not gain you anything of real worth...

I spent hours and hundreds of pounds trying to eak out my 3ghz P4...

I understand your point and i fully agree, this is just a machine i was playing with....i'm not really going to benefit from any gains on it.

It's just an experiment if you like...something of little value to 'learn' on.