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overclock it til it burns.... should i do it?

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bubblescivic

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alright i have 3 socket T processors a 520, 550 and an E6300. i'm thinking about pulling the 550 from it's board and going for the moon on my E6300 setup. i got 4.0ghz out of it on the following setup...

Abit AS8
Thermaltake Silent775
Corsair XMS PC3200 2-3-3-6

i'm thinking about putting it on my DS3 with 2gb of PC6400 and a scythe ninja. at 1:1 the bandwidth should be pretty sick. should i do it just for the hell of it? do you guys think i can go higher than 4.046 on the as8? and what effects should i see stepping up to PCIe and DDR2.
 
Are you talking about taking the 6400 over 4GHz??? If so, my vote is that you can't do it at all. Not even close.
 
no i'm talking about throwing my old 550 3.4HT in there and taking it over 4ghz. my main question for everyone is what performance gains should i see in this rig at 4ghz over the AGP/DDR abit as8 rig?
 
bubblescivic said:
alright i have 3 socket T processors a 520, 550 and an E6300. i'm thinking about pulling the 550 from it's board and going for the moon on my E6300 setup. i got 4.0ghz out of it on the following setup...

Abit AS8
Thermaltake Silent775
Corsair XMS PC3200 2-3-3-6
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I really don't see how pulling your 550 out of its motherboard is going to improve your E6300 overclock :conf:. 4GHz on an E6300 is extremely impressive anyway, I think you have already arrived at the moon.
 
you guys misunderstood my question.

i want to put the 550 on the DS3 with the PC6400/Scythe Ninja and overclock the snot out of it. should i try it or would the performance gains not be worth it? the abit AS8 and XMS were worthy back in the day, but what i'm trying to ask is how well you think the DS3/DDR2 would fare with overclocking the 550.
 
I don't know anything about P4's. Why would you want to do that when the conroe is faster?? Just curious...do you just want to do it to see if you can? If that is the case, then go for it:)
 
Most of the Pentium 4 550's overclock very well. Mine would do 3.85GHz on stock voltage. With a moddest increase, mine would go to 4.1GHz, though I ran into some cooling problems. I used DDR675 Corsair ram back in the day, and I think in general that DDR2 memory is much better suited to OC'ing than the older DDR modules are.

Now even at 4GHz or more, it won't even touch the E6300's performance at 3GHz, and probably not even clocked slower than that. The performance of the Core architecture is simply superior to that of any Netburst based processor.

As far as overclocking it until it burns, well good luck with that. The processors thermal protection will stop you from doing that. Those Pentium 4 chips seem nearly indestructable.
 
Dan_D said:
Those Pentium 4 chips seem nearly indestructable.
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I had one die and it got so hot the Intel tech asked me twice how hot it got when I called for the RMA. It made it to a chilly 120C and took the motherboard with it with everything stock. It was probally a defective chip. It was to bad because it took my Abit AA8 with it and yes I was going to overclock it I was just waiting for my new heatsink.
 
Its unlikely but wouldnt you feel silly if the processor went POW! and took the board with it.
 
DeChache said:
I had one die and it got so hot the Intel tech asked me twice how hot it got when I called for the RMA. It made it to a chilly 120C and took the motherboard with it with everything stock. It was probally a defective chip. It was to bad because it took my Abit AA8 with it and yes I was going to overclock it I was just waiting for my new heatsink.
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The AA8XE is what I used with my Pentium 4 550. Great chip, great board. What you are talking about is a rare occurance. Most of the time the chips will lock up, or throttle in the case of extreme heat.
 
Dan_D said:
The AA8XE is what I used with my Pentium 4 550. Great chip, great board. What you are talking about is a rare occurance. Most of the time the chips will lock up, or throttle in the case of extreme heat.
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I know but I thought I would throw it out there. I was using a 550 also. Im pretty sure it was defective from the start when it would work it wasnt stable and alway ran about as hot as the surface of the sun my new one runs cold comparible speaking

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DeChache said:
I know but I thought I would throw it out there. I was using a 550 also. Im pretty sure it was defective from the start when it would work it wasnt stable and alway ran about as hot as the surface of the sun my new one runs cold comparible speaking

/Thread Jack
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Well, everyones experiences will vary.
 
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