P4 3.2Ghz Overclocking quickie

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Just a quick question. I'm wondering to what sort of speed, roughly, could I knock my cpu up to. I have a P4 3.2 Northwood CPU, with a Zalman 'Flower' Cu fan, and the idle temp of my CPU is about 30degC. I have a Asus P4P800-E Deluxe mobo, and some decent RAM (see signature).

I know it's not an exact science, but I was just wondering what sort of figure I could be looking at.

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northwoods 'usually' only really do a max of 3.8ish unless you use extreme cooling.

so it could be anywhere up there.... i would say 3.6-3.7
 
stigggeh said:
northwoods 'usually' only really do a max of 3.8ish unless you use extreme cooling.

so it could be anywhere up there.... i would say 3.6-3.7
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As above, but don't be suprised if it does less ( or more ), my old 3.2c would only do 3.4 before its not stable, no matter how much vcore got pumped in the thing.

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See sig for what I had mine running, but note it is out of date now as its only running about 3.65 now and wont do any higher at all.

4 gig use to be 100% stable, before it refused to run at that speed at all :(
 
ovia said:
See sig for what I had mine running, but note it is out of date now as its only running about 3.65 now and wont do any higher at all.

4 gig use to be 100% stable, before it refused to run at that speed at all :(
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extreme cooling though... what did it do on air ?
 
I'd say in the 3.5-3.7 range tops. Lot depends on your Ram/Mobo ocing ability.

However with a 6800GT you will not see much of a gaming boost unfortunately. 2-3FPS @ best. Really need a faster PCI-E gfx card now.

Is that extra few FPS really worth the extra strain on your system?

Remember if it gets damaged your looking @ a lot of money to replace as AGP mobos are rapidly becoming scarce!
 
AWPC said:
However with a 6800GT you will not see much of a gaming boost unfortunately. 2-3FPS @ best. Really need a faster PCI-E gfx card now.
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Yeah, I realise I need an upgrade, but now is most definitely not the time for me be spending large amounts of money on components. It wouldn't make sense.
 
Seirrah said:
Yeah, I realise I need an upgrade, but now is most definitely not the time for me be spending large amounts of money on components. It wouldn't make sense.
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An overclock will not make hardly any difference to what you already have. The gfx card is holding you back as it cannot handle recent pixel shader heavy games.

Gave my old P4 3.2 system with a 6800GT256 to my brother and even on std clocks still able to easily run HL2, Doom3, Far Cry, Riddick, FEAR, NFSMW, COD2 @ 1024x768. Sure you lose a few niceties in the gfx department but does not look that much different than with max gfx details.

Overclocking it to 3.73 (highest it will go) only gives @ best a 3-5% improvement and for that the temps go up by 10-15C under load so its longevity is seriously in question if run like that all the time.

You can still get @ least £250-300 for your current system as the AGP card alone is worth just over £100. CPU another £70-85. For approx £450-500 you could spec a decent 7800GT system from OCUK which will give you a lot better performance in current DX9 games.
 
I appreciate what you're saying, but I'm going to wait longer before I do a system upgrade, and make it truly worthwhile.
There aren't currently any games to justify me spending a lot of money right now.
 
Seirrah said:
I appreciate what you're saying, but I'm going to wait longer before I do a system upgrade, and make it truly worthwhile.
There aren't currently any games to justify me spending a lot of money right now.
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just overclock it, its performance for free,

i would say you will be hard pushed to kill a p4c800 just by overclocking it, most of the dead ones are due to volt mods etc.
 
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