Simple question. Is overclocking impeeded on an Intel platform when all four RAM slots are populated ? I need to put a system together w/ 4GB of ram but I really want to be able to overclock the chip easily. Since AMD's memory controllers generally dont allow much tweaking with this configuration I've turned my attention to Intel. Being an AMD guy for the last three years I havent done much reading on the world of P4 tweaking. I plan on putting together a simple 805 D and a mobo with some ram that can be carried over to a Conroe setup (just the ram). Plan is to turn up the chip to 4GHz or so like everyone has been and replace the main board and CPU after 6 months or so. So if this is indeed reasonable please recommend me a good $100 or less motherboard. Thanks.
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OCing a P4 w/ four DIMMs installed
- Thread starter Ehren8879
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MrWizard6600
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uh.. the 4GHz 805 is possible, but its not really that wise. i cant remember how far toms hardware over volted there processer, but it was far, and they couldnt get it pased 3.7 without liquid cooling. you can bet that little processor was suffering from severe electron migration.
but if your gonna replace it with a conroe processer anyways wth! go for it.
As for overclocking memory on intel platform i cant help yea... never really tried...
but if your gonna replace it with a conroe processer anyways wth! go for it.
As for overclocking memory on intel platform i cant help yea... never really tried...
you can overclock on p4 platform and still have 4 memory slots fullEhren8879 said:Simple question. Is overclocking impeeded on an Intel platform when all four RAM slots are populated ? I need to put a system together w/ 4GB of ram but I really want to be able to overclock the chip easily. Since AMD's memory controllers generally dont allow much tweaking with this configuration I've turned my attention to Intel. Being an AMD guy for the last three years I havent done much reading on the world of P4 tweaking. I plan on putting together a simple 805 D and a mobo with some ram that can be carried over to a Conroe setup (just the ram). Plan is to turn up the chip to 4GHz or so like everyone has been and replace the main board and CPU after 6 months or so. So if this is indeed reasonable please recommend me a good $100 or less motherboard. Thanks.
i got 4x2GB Hynix PC-5300 DDR2-667 and i can still overclock my p5ld2-vm with a p4 521 from 2.8Ghz to 3.70GHz (265*14) i dont believe intel has the same problem as A64 cuz A64 has a builtin memory controller that is faster but as time progresses i dont think they ever changed it, whereas on intel they change it ever NB update