The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

YES Crowy! well, i have seen quite a few people on the toms hardware forum with the E6600 processor at 4Ghz, but with lower latency ram. the ram i got is at 5-5-5-12 but i found a customer review on the same ram i got and he managed to bring down the timings to 4-4-3-7 and take them up to 961Mhz at 2.3Volts. i plan to do the same thing but with slightly less aggressive latency and a frequency of 850, that should get me to 4. the mobo i got is an Asus P5B Deluxe which according to people i talked to, should enable be to adjust the ram accordingly. i am a n00b, and this will be my first extreme overclock, and i hope to do it BIG. thanks

 

BigCharb,
I wish you well.
Just keep an eye on your temps.

 

BigCharb,
I'm puzzled by something! Here's a copy of your sig.
Aspire X-cruiser case
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz(oc'd 3.4)
Kingston 1G DDR
250Gb Maxtor HD
Liquid cooled
ATI X700pro (oc'd 515/523)
400 watt power suppy
3Dmark05 3936

I've been running my 3.0/800 Prescott for about 4 months at 3.94, and I couldn't help but notice that yours is OC'd to 3.4. Your sig doesn't say what your MB is, so I don't know if that's the problem. I can give you a few helpful hints though. The first one is the power supply. 400 watts is not enough. If it's the PS that came with the case, it won't come anywhere's near it's rated wattage. You also say "liquid cooled". Is that just the Video, the CPU or both. Also, which socket P-4 do you have. Mine is a 478 on an Asus P4P800-SE MB with 1GB of Corsair Cas2 DDR400 memory. I had no problem running it at 3.84 using 1GB of PNY Optima Cas3 memory.

I know you are building a new one but I'd like to help you get this one running better if you would like.

Sincerely,
theone

 

Yeah I'd predict an E6600 with CAS5 RAM to top out somewhere around 3.5-3.6 unless you're very aggressive. The point being that CAS4 can be dropped to CAS5 in order to get higher overclocks...

 

SUP, yeah, my sig shows my present set up. I'm able only to hit a max of 3.4 because i bought a cheap mobo off some guy from school. my water cooling system is CPU and GPU cooled.My processor is socket 470 and built on the Presscot platform 1mb L2 cache and has hyper threading; my processor is sick but my mobo is CRAP! My ram is Kingston value ram for 110 bucks from tiger. As you can see, for my first home built comp i think its pretty good. I can also play new games like BF2142 online with med settings. thanks for trying to help get more speed but i don't really care much...I'm selling it to my bro for 900 dollars! L8er

 

OH sorry, socket 478...LMAO

 

BigCharb,

God, I'd hate to see what you would charge for it if he wasn't your Bro! LMAO

Happy Computering,
theone

 

SUP, yeah...my bro wants my comp so badly that he offered to buy it for 900, so i said yeah. i personally was going to pass it on for free but he made an offer that i couldn't refuse. pluse the comp hes using now is my old overclocked Pentium 2, so to him my comp is a SUPER COMPUTER,lol. l8er

 

Cool, what's next then?

 

sam,

What's next,is BigCharb will become a very successful car salesman and go on to make millions!!!!!!





The weather here is picture perfect.At 5pm,(20 mins ago) it was 26.6 degrees celsius the humidity is @ 28% and the wind speed is 5-8 knots.
Going out the back to cook a barbie soon,so will throw on an extra few snaggers and some extra marinated beef for anyone that wants to come on over.Tonight is going to be a good night!!!!
Sorry for the off topic BS... but I'm in a good mood as per the gifs!!!

 

damn its 21 degrees here in central IN.

where are you located crowy

 

Hey aabbccdd,
long time no hear!!
(love your username to by the way!!! It's easier to type,than copy/paste!! LOL!!)

Collie/South West/Western Australia.

 

I'd come over but you're on the other side of the world lol. aabbccdd is easy to type, but asdfasdf is even easier! LOL

 

yeah thats funny when i joined i punched in 15 or 50 user names that were already in use so i just punched in aabbccdd and it took lol so i never changed it

 

i just watched this and it made me laugh. hope you like it.

 

I just got a new computer, with a GeForce 7900 GT OC and want to overclock it just slightly more, how do I do this? I've tried Coolbits and such, but it doesn't show up anywhere, I'm not sure what to do. Also, how do I check if I have the newest drivers? I'm pretty sure I do, but whenever I try to search the nVidia site, I can never get any answers and it just confuses the hell out me. Could someone give me the links to the newest drivers I should have for my video card? Help would be much appreciated, thanks.

 

in the nvidia control panle if you click on "help" then "system info" it will tell you which version of forceware you are running. i think the latest for yours is 93.71 which you can get here for xp. the cool bits options are in the control panel and are very easy to use. powerstrip and rivatuner will also work but are a bit harder to use.

edit

note, overclocking voids your warrenty and any damage cause is your fault.

 

Thanks for the info, all is well.

 

I am looking to try and overclock my Sony Vaio Intel P4 2.4GHz but cant seem to figure it out, I got into Bios and it seems pretty basic, I dont see anywhere to change the speed. Any help and suggestions appreciated.

Processors Information
-----------------------------------------------------------

Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 1
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Package Socket 478 mPGA (platform ID = 2h)
CPUID F.2.7
Extended CPUID F.2
Brand ID 9
Core Stepping C1
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 2411.9 MHz (18.0 x 134.0 MHz)
Rated Bus speed 536.0 MHz
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control no
Chipset
-----------------------------------------------------------

Northbridge Intel i845G rev. B1
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. 02
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 1024 MBytes
Memory Frequency 167.5 MHz (4:5)
CAS# 2.5
RAS# to CAS# 3
RAS# Precharge 3
Cycle Time (tRAS) 7
DRAM Idle Timer 64

Memory SPD
--------------------------------------------------------
DIMM #1

General
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) SpecTek Incorporated (7F7FB5FFFFFFFFFF)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2700 (166 MHz)
Part number
Serial number 0500EC28
Manufacturing date Week 36/Year 03

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
EPP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 100 166
CAS# 2.0 2.5
RAS# to CAS# delay 2 3
RAS# Precharge 2 3
TRAS 5 7

DIMM #2

General
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) Kingston (7F98000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2700 (166 MHz)
Part number K
Serial number 023477B2
Manufacturing date Week 29/Year 03

Attributes
Number of banks 2
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
EPP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 133 166
CAS# 2.0 2.5
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 3
RAS# Precharge 3 3
TRAS 6 7

 

DKrazie,

Unfortunatly chances are good that you can't! Most name brand computers lack the needed adjustments for all but the basic setup. My old Dell 3000 was the same way. Fortunately I was able to sell it without losing any money and build my own P4.

Basicly you need to be able to adjust the Frontside bus, CPU and memory voltages, memory timings and be able to lock both the memory and the PCI bus speeds. You could even do it without the voltage adjustments but then it will be limited by what the processor can take at stock voltage and no more.

Trust me when I tell you, you can build a better computer than you can buy in most name brands for a lot less money that will perform much better. build your own and come here. We will all help you!

Happy Computering,
theone