My new upgrade.

[Faustus]

Getting that ultra over clockable P4 D 2.66 with a gig of RAM. The FAN needed for the OC itself cost a bit much but it should be sweet.

Wish me luck, I've not overclocked since the Celeron 300a.

[NormaJ]

Good luck, Faustus

[Abbadon]

Faustus,

You are reducing the useful life of your CPU.

[SingSing]

Faustus, You are reducing the useful life of your CPU.

Never heard of anyone has a CPU die because of overclocking.

[stantheman1976]

Faustus, You are reducing the useful life of your CPU.

Never heard of anyone has a CPU die because of overclocking.

In theory it can reduce the life of a CPU because of the extra heat it produces. If you don't cool the CPU properly it will definitely do damage. With the right fans, colling units, and such it isn't a major concern.

[SingSing]

CPU is obsoleted at such a rate, that we never see the life reduction of those overclocked CPU.

[ROF]

Faustus, You are reducing the useful life of your CPU.

Never heard of anyone has a CPU die because of overclocking.

You can't be serious? Ever take a physics class?

[KBeee]

Getting that ultra over clockable P4 D 2.66 with a gig of RAM. The FAN needed for the OC itself cost a bit much but it should be sweet.

Wish me luck, I've not overclocked since the Celeron 300a.

Oh Wow
The 300A, that brings back memories. What a cracking overclocking processor that was. Up the bus from 66 to 100 and it could outgun the top of the range 450 Pentium in many processes, at about 1/4 of the price.
I've been tempted by the new "King of the Overclockers" too. 4GHz's often achieved with decent cooling.

[Soopafresh]

Helping a friend do the 2.6-4.1 O/C. Will also post results

[KBeee]

Good luck to you and your friend
Water cooling?

[Soopafresh]

http://www.micforg.co.jp/en/c_s-pal8952e.html#spec_pal8952M81

We'll see- it's pretty heavy - feels like 2 soda cans, fan pushes a lot of air.

I told my buddy that 4.1ghz would be unlikely unless he could put the motherboard in a refrigerator.

Good luck to you as well

[KBeee]

That cooler weighs nearly 1 1/2 pounds!

From the specs, the noise isn't too bad either thanks to the 80mm fan.

Did you see this?
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/06/12/your_diy_gaming_rig_for_720_uk/

[Faustus]

I got this HSF sinceToms Hardware talked so well about it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118003

You can't really get over 3.8ghz without water cooling and even then if you get 3.8 you are pretty lucky.

In reality I'm hoping for 3.4 or maybe 3.6 ghz. If I get either of those I'll be very happy.

As far as the useful life, with the added cooling it helps a lot and the "useful life" of a CPU is far beyond what we usually use them for.

I don't usually over clock as the gains just are not worth the hassel to me. Just like the old 300a this is a very large exception.

[lordsmurf]

Good luck.

I upgraded CPU and RAM a while back, was very helpful.

[Soopafresh]

Well, step 1 is complete - system has been put together and boots. Typical minor snags - I put the ram in the wrong slot #s, preventing video (and even error beeps). More quiet than I expected it to be, even with the fast rpm cpu fan and the addition of a Nvidia 7950 video card (my buddy is a 3D effects artist so he justified the huge price as a work related requirement - in reality he's going to disappear for a few months to play Counterstrike/Doom/Gloom). I'm liking those modular connector power supplies which help prevent that mass of cabling you're normally forced to tie back. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817331002

Got too late last night to attempt any O/C (which honestly I need to read up on). Besides, it'll be good for the Arctic Silver to cure for a few days until we give it a go.

[rallynavvie]

...the addition of a Nvidia 7950 video card (my buddy is a 3D effects artist so he justified the huge price as a work related requirement - in reality he's going to disappear for a few months to play Counterstrike/Doom/Gloom)

Yeah, if he were really serious about 3D design/imaging he'd have picked up one of the new PCI-E Quadros. Those things are getting silly marks in design apps. I think there's even a dual-GPU version

[Soopafresh]

Running fine at 3.8Ghz. Easy to do, just followed the Tom's HW article verbatim.

CPU Temperature DID jump from 51C to 66C. The only problem so far is the Nvidia 7950 GX2 Second Instance (technically, there are 2 cards installed on 1) is reporting: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12). However, that problem was occuring before the overclock.


CPU Clock Speed 3806.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 20.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 190.3 MHz
Bus Speed 761.2 MHz

DDR2-SDRAM
DRAM Size 2048 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 380.6 MHz
FSBRAM 1:2
CAS# Latency 5.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 5 clocks
RAS# Precharge 5 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 15 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 21 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 G.Skill DDR2 PC6400 - 1024 MBytes
Module 1 G.Skill DDR2 PC6400 - 1024 MBytes

[Faustus]

My parts have also arrived. I should be hooking it all up in the morning.

You got 3.8 stable? sweet.

I'll be happy if I can get 3.6ghz.

[Soopafresh]

Cool ! Best of Luck

[Faustus]

Currently running at 3.33ghz pretty well.

What program do people use to test their CPU under full load?

I need to see what the temps are like, so far I'm at idle COOLER the Tomshardware got and after about 10min of HL2 I only went up like 6degrees.

[rallynavvie]

Folding@Home, SETI@Home, Prime95, CPU Burn...

[Soopafresh]

Also check out http://benchmarkhq.ru , http://www.hocbench.com/

[Faustus]

Found what I was looking for. Prime95. Running 2 copies one using each core. After 15min 63degrees at 3.3ghz.

Guess its time for the next step. heheh

[Faustus]

Strange, wen to 180fsb which bumped to 3.6ghz. The temp SEEMED fine and uGuru never showed it go over 65degrees YET suddenly I got the internal alarm and the system froze.

Bumped it to 175 which puts me at 3.5ghz. I'd be more then happy if it runs at that speed.

[KBeee]

That's the only problem with O/C's - you run Prime for 3 days straight with no problems, then suddeny Notepad will freeze you up...

[Faustus]

Problem found actually. The CPU is running more then cool enough. The passive PWM cooling on this board is causing it to over heat if I bump over 3.3ghz.

This can be fixed for like $15 so I guess next week when the parts come in I'll push for some more awesome mhz.

Until then 3.3ghz on a dual core that i paid $120 for it more then good enough.

[KBeee]

Best of luck....
I'm holding off upgrades till I hear your final story
<--- coward

[ViRaL1]

Are you running on the NI8-SLI? I picked up one with plans of doing what you're doing so I'm very interested to see how things go.

[Faustus]

Yes that is exaclty the board I'm using. Do yourself a favor and order the fan ahead of time if you plan to overclock.

I'd like you to it but I'm at work and don't have it here.

Lookup the board model and PWM overheat and you should find people talking about it.