Overclocking a P4 3.4 Extreme Edition

George Michael

George Michael

George Michael

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Hi guys, I fitted this P4 chip this weekend and I am having some issues. I just got it to "upgrade" my old P4 chip which was a 3.0 Prescott which I had successfully overclocked to 3675mhz. I had hoped that by fitting this EE P4 I could overclocked it more to get higher results on 3D Mark 06.

Basic spec of the machine is;

2gb RAM
X1950 Pro AGP GFX Card
Asus P4C800 Mother Board

With the 3.0 P4 I managed to get a high 3D score of 4599 and the system was always stable. now since fitting the 3.4 EE I cannot get anywhere near the old score. With the chip @ 3.4 I got 4089 and with it overclocked to 3570 (5% on mother board settings) I got 4175. If I overclock it to 10% on mother board settings it always locks up under load.

I used to use Systool to overclock before with good results, when using this now the PC locks up after only a minute of "finding CPU max". Temperatures are fine with seeing a max of 43°c on the CPU and 30°c on the MB under full load. I have a Scythe Ninja cooling the CPU and lots of other fans in the case.

What do you think? Any help you can give me will be great because at the moment I am thinking about putting the old chip back in.
 
Im not far form your spec, i have a p4 3.0 oc'd to 3.9 atm. I have an 1800 xt 2gb ram, and my 3d mark score is only just over 3900. I think you should use the bios to oc instead of systool, more reliable. The reason your prolly getting the smaller oc is due to that program. Open up the bios and crank up the speed ;)
 
Thanks for the speedy reply.

Firstly... Well done for getting the 3.0 that far! That's very good.

To be honest I'm not an expert with overclocking. To overclock to 3.0 I used Systool, wrote down the settings then went into the bios and just altered the things that Systool did and it worked.

I wouldn't know where to start if the tool didn't tell me what to do.

:(
 
To put it simply, change the clock speed by say 5 mhz. save settings, reboot.
stress test the pc, then go back into bios, go up another 5. when the pc starts restarting itself and u get bsod, up the voltage going into the vcore by a small amount, then same process again as before :)

Im pretty sure you could get that 3.4 higher then that. Out of interest whats the multiplier, my current one is 23, is the 3.4 chip higher or lower?
 
Thanks, I read that thread a while ago and I am still confused, I was just re- reading it. As for the mulitpler, I have no idea. Where do I find that out? lol.

On my MB it automatically OC's by a fixed percentage, 5, 10, 20 and 30% in the BIOS. I have used this before up to 10% on the 3.0, any more than that it wouldn't take it yet I got more when I "manually" altered it.

:)
 
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