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P4 socket 478 OC attempt

MoRT489

MoRT489

MoRT489

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I got an old p4 and wanted to know which was the best chipset to oc these chips on? MSI Neo 875PE any good @ oc?

I know its an old cpu but i want to try lapping and heavy ocing on this before i attempt it on my new conroe rig :D
 
What P4 do you have?? There should be some writing on the top e.g SL6V3

Type this into google and one of the sites will tell you if it's a Willamette, Northwood or Prescott core.

If it's a Northwood then overclocking shouldn't be a problem.
I've got a Asus P4S800-MX which is a basic micro atx board and it did my 2.4 northwood (533fsb) at 3ghz no problem.

I also had a Soltek PT880Pro_Fgr and this is a good clocking board if you can change to 800fsb. There's no way of getting 166fsb on this board.

If it's a Prescott then cooling will be more important. The asus boards seem to be good for clocking though.
 
I'm still running that board and proc without any issue. 2.4c has been running at 3.2 for a couple of years without issue, on air. Pretty standard for this chip I think.

Memory seemed to be the stumbling block for many people, perhaps I was lucky with some Crucial sticks.
 
it's a p4 2.8 1MB L2, got Geil PC3200 ram and want to clock it but my current board wont budge :(

So any ideas if the 865 or 875 chipset is better?
 
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creed said:
any ideas if the 865 or 875 chipset is better?
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The i875 was meant to be the superior version of the i865, I think the only difference was a feature called PAT which was meant to make the memory bandwidth a bit better. The best P4 mobo I had was an ABIT Ai7 which used the i865PE chipset, it was actually faster than the more expensive ASUS P4C800-E?

Regardless which one you end up going for I found that the system ran a better if you used your memory on a divider. When I tried to run it 1:1 sync I got some strange artifacting on certain games?
 
is there a way to tell what model my prescott is without taking off the heatsink (hate the bloody clips on the 478) as i'm guessing some models clock better than others?
 
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