Is This A Good Overclock?

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haadij404

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Well I finally decided to overclock my CPU properly and see what I get. I got my P4 3.0ghz HT Northwood up to 3.5. Bumped the Vcore to 1.625v. My memory is the only thing holding me back. I have a gig and half (one 1 gig stick and one 512mb) of pc2700 memory (the other gig is 3200) in my setup so i could get 2.5gigs of ram. I would rather have an extra 1.5gb of ram for video and photo editing. My temps are 35c idle and 47c load (with the cpu fan scaled back for the sake of noise and vibration) with stock air cooling. I think thats pretty good for a hot P4. I don't think its worth getting an after market cooler for a rig that I most likely wont be using in 18 months.

I read somewhere the chip can only get to 3.6ghz and I am only 100mhz away. I gamed for about 3 hours and everything was good, no crashing or freezing. So its stable.

Here is a screen shot of CPUZ, with hot chick thrown in for everyones enjoyment ;)
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Is the overclock good or should I push it further?

Thanks
 
uhh sure try more.. but next time have a nude pic background in your screen shot.
 
I have no idea but wouldn't he get better performance if he takes out the pc2700 ram, and stick with the 1gig of pc3200. I'm assuming it's 2x512mb so you could run dual channel and put a 166 divider instead of 133. That'll bring you up to the orginal 200mhz.

Aagain I have no idea but maybe you'll get better performance if you stick with 1gig but running faster?

I have to put a 100 divider @ 2.9 for my overclock so my ram freq is only like 150. Is CPU SPPED king of all?
 
larkin said:
uhh sure try more.. but next time have a nude pic background in your screen shot.
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Or something really embarassing, that you forget to take down. Works the same. God, the screenshots I've posted around the internet at various times, really make me wonder why I still submit posts at 1am.
 
I wouldn't say your memory is the only thing holding you back. That's pretty high for a northwood. That might be all she has in her.
 
She? I always thought of the Pre-Conroe chips to be manly cuz of their high heat output!
 
The northwoods weren't too bad in terms of heat output. A lot better than the s478 prescotts.
 
I realized that I did not want to push the CPU any further. I like having that 100mhz buffer, just to be safe. I don't wanna fry the chip...as a poor college student I cannot afford a new one :( Its all good though. These P4's spit out alot of heat tho, well atleast compared to my friends AMD's and such. The C2D is soo nice and "cool". Hmmm I wonder how much more heat it would produce at 3.6...

And yes, next time I will put a sexy background picture of Condoleeza Rice and Rosie O'donnell having a sexy time :eek:

Ehh, screw it, I am going for broke. She's gonna hit 3.6 and love it.
 
Watch out for the SNDS (sudden northwood death syndrome) if you push too much voltage through it.
 
Dont give more than 1.650 v core,I gave my 2.4 NWood 1.7 and now it isnt stable at stock speed...Atleast I learned something...atleast I got my lappy still going strong 2.2ghz dothan super pi 1m in 35s w00t.
 
Yeah, I wont push it too far. I am gonna scale it back atually. After I create and edit a movie and try to save it, the computer freezes up because of the intense cpu usage. I don't like that at all. I tested stability with orthos and errors showed up within 10seconds :eek: So yeah it was pretty damn unstable. So I am running stock speeds atm and saving my vids. I might crank it up to 3.3ghz with the vcore at 1.615. How long should I test with prime95/orthos to see if the OC is stable?
 
wow comparing the c2d to intels old chips, they made alot of headroom to OC on the new c2ds
 
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