i have an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz the Motherboard manufacturer is Lite-On Tech , Motherboard model 0884h what i want to know is that if i can over clock it , how can i over clock it and what is it gonna improve ?
Hi, are you positive about the model of board? I cant find it on maufacturers web. I'll guess that the board is about 3 years old............Maybe its time for another.......Asus AI series have overclocking abilities through Bios configuration and you can pick one up for about 80ca. Do youself a favour and get one that is Dual Core capable.
Well tell me your other components and I can help. CPU Motherboard RAM Video Card In that order please.
am actually happy with my motherboard it works nice ! Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz motherboard HP Lite-On Tech 0884h , 512 MBytes RAM and 128 mb video card NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 .
Ok, you might not notice a gaming boost because your video will bottleneck it. But you will notice a general computing boost, i.e. things will be snappier and programs will load slightly faster. In overclocking you never want to just take your CPU as high as it will go. Always find a safe spot. Just to boost it a little, not supercharge it. Also, do you have adequate cooling? How many case fans? CPU fan or heatsink? if you have the Stock CPU fan atleast, you will be able to be safe at a mild overclock. The easiest way to overclock is to adjust your FSB(frontside bus) speed. I take it you have DDR 400 RAM, do you know? doesn't matter anyhoo for the basics. Any way, When you start up you can go into your BIOS by pressing F1 or what ever it says when you start up. And find your memory speeds. Should either be 133 or 200 MHz(not sure, never OC'd an intel,) but if you turn that up by say 5-15MHz you will have a possibly stable OC and a slightly faster processor. Notice how my CPU is overclocked from 2.0 to 2.4 GHz. I turned my RAM speed up to 240MHz and that directly went to the processor. On all CPUs there is a multiplier. Mine was 10. So 10x240 = 2400MHz. You will notice how almost all processors are at an even number for speed. This is because it is much easier to just have a solid number as a multiplier. There are different things with hyper transport and stuff with AMD processors that I neither understand nor care about. Everything else is fine for me at stock settings. If you need me to help at all I will try my best.
yes i have two 256mb DDR400 , so what you are saying is that i should just increase the memory speeds or the FSB am i correct ? And if i boost it more then it can run with can i damage the motherboard or the processor ? And what else can i increase ?
@Estuansis He might not be able to OC is CPU or motherboard because of the motherboard brand and model and when it was released....Some you can only overclock my switching a small jumper,or dipswitch on your motherboard.......And you MUST manipulate your Motherboard speed to OC your CPU or your system can bcome unstable
You might be able to OC on that mobo I really can't tell you. But the FSB is directly related to the memory speed. AMDs are a little different thought. Because hyper transport is also directly connected to memory speed. On processors with 1600MHz FSB the hyper transport multiplier is 4 while on ones with 2000MHz FSB the multiplier is 5. For more detail on your situation I'd ask sosmeone with more experience with intel processors.
