Whats a good P4 to OC to 4.0Ghz

[moof]

Whats a good P4 i can OC and will WC b required.

 

[pmr]

a good old 2.4b will take you to 3.6 or even more. About 775 socket...i don´t know. But 4Ghz it's a bit hard for a p4 to handle.

 

[moof]

wat about a Pentium D

 

[pmr]

gee man, there are a lot of threads regarding the d 805. Search the forum for them.u can take them to 4ghz, but you have to buy wc and a great mobo.

 

[azokaei]

Plus it would waste a lot of electricity. It can be done but you have to get water cooling and a good motherborad as PMR also stated

 

[joefriday]

P4 506. Cost: $85

 

[moof]

ya but thats just it i dont want water cooling and im not gonna over due the overclokcing, because i wanna try to get 4.0 without raising the volts much.

 

[1Tanker]

Whats a good P4 i can OC and will WC b required.

A 670 should hit 4GHz with ease......It's only 200MHz away.

 

[swifty_morgan]

I had a celeron d, 2.4 going 3.6 on an asus p4s800 mobo. Probably could have got more if I tried. Ran stable as anything. Although mobo died, chip is now in this machine here, so it lasted many years. Only used stock cooling, and never got above32c, at idle.

 

[1Tanker]

I had a celeron d, 2.4 going 3.6 on an asus p4s800 mobo. Probably could have got more if I tried. Ran stable as anything. Although mobo died, chip is now in this machine here, so it lasted many years. Only used stock cooling, and never got above32c, at idle.

Read the title..."Whats a good P4 to OC to 4.0Ghz"?

 

[swifty_morgan]

I did read the post. Pentiums suck for overclocking and they are way over priced.!

 

[purplepulser]

I can tell you that a P4 3.0E is definately not a good one to overclock
mines a rev c0 and it will hardly reach 3.2 without crashing windows.

i just cant coo'l it fast enough, i've had it up to 72 deg c under load p95 (2 instances)

 

[DaddyLyuLyu]

Moof:

I've got a P4 Northwood core stock at 3.2Ghz. I've got a zalman 70mm HSF with excellent case cooling (I think that's the key here, CASE COOLING). I've OC'd that baby to 3.9Ghz easy. I did some test to make sure all components were stable. I had el CheapO RAM in there before...some cheap Infineon RAM, 2GB of it..... can't OC past 3.5. I then bought 2GB of PC3200 Corsair XMS XL 2-2-2-5 RAM and BOOM!!! that baby flew past 3.5 and got to 3.9. All this was done stock v-core volt, stock DDR volt, no changes. A solid platform also helps. I've got an Abit IC7-MAX 3 w/ OTES.

I know my system is old compare to you young bucks out there. I don't have all the fancy stuff nor do I have the money to spend but most of all, I don't really need it because this system, though old, still whips most newer systems ass.....(tongue in cheek here)

So, my suggestion: Get a P4 NORTHWOOD core, prob the 2.4, 2.8 or 3.2 version. Solid platform, good case cooling and high-quality RAM. If you've got those things (and you don't have to get what I have, it's just that it has worked for me), you should have no problems raising CLOSE to 4.0Ghz. I've tried to push to 4.0Ghz, but I just can't seem to twest that one little whatever thing I need to tweak to get past this impass.

Hope this helps.

My two cents.

TTFN

 

[haha103]

for P4 with 478pins, Northwood series' extreme frequency is about 3.6GHz

and Pressoct series' extreme frequency is about 4GHz

there are some exceptions for sure

about P4 for LGA775, 5XX and 6X0 series are both has a extreme frequency at 4GHz to 4.2GHz

the 6X1 series can always oc up to 4.5G or higher and has a better temperature controlling.

above all are all single core P4 series

 

[Omid]

Best one is the D805. You dont need water cooling just get a zalman 9500 and youll get 3.8 ghz with ease

 

[Omid]

Whats a good P4 i can OC and will WC b required.

BTW you dont want much do you??

 

[moof]

i cant affored WC and its too much maintinece.

and ive desided to go with a Pentium D 950 3.4Ghz and OC it to 3.8-4.0 with a Zalaman Fan/heatsink.

 

[dougie_boy]

I did read the post. Pentiums suck for overclocking and they are way over priced.!

no they dont. your talking out ur arse.

also. why do you need it to hit 4ghz??? i ask because depending the type of work you will be doing will make a difference on the CPU buy. encoding and the like will be better on a dual core system but if your only going on FPS your not going to notice the difference between 1 or 2 cores. all games at the moment are coded to only use one core.

more mhz does not mean a better CPU. a more efficient one will work faster.

 

[moof]

i would have to disagree Overclokcing does efect the FPS. my friend has a AMD Athlon 3500+ 2.2Ghz Stock and we OCed it to 2.6 and his score on the 3DMark03 was 1000 more and we can OC it more but my friend didnt want to rais the Vcore. And if we rais the Vcore we could get to 3.0Ghz thats almost 1Ghz overclock it does make a difference.

 

[dougie_boy]

i would have to disagree Overclokcing does efect the FPS. my friend has a AMD Athlon 3500+ 2.2Ghz Stock and we OCed it to 2.6 and his score on the 3DMark03 was 1000 more and we can OC it more but my friend didnt want to rais the Vcore. And if we rais the Vcore we could get to 3.0Ghz thats almost 1Ghz overclock it does make a difference.

read what i wrote.

" encoding and the like will be better on a dual core system but if your only going on FPS your not going to notice the difference between 1 or 2 cores."

nothing about ghz. cores.

 

[dimwhited]

If you just want a p4 running 4ghz because its cool (which it sure as hell is), and dont really care about money, then deffinately go for the 670... it would be a snap to OC it 200 mhz higher

If budget is a factor, then buy the highest speed you can get... a 660 will be harder to oc to 4 then a 670, just as a 650 will be harder then a 660.

buy the best you can afford, and deffinately wat untill the 23 to buy... PRICE CUTS!!!

 

[Crashman]

920 is a better grade CPU than the 805's everyone talks about, will overclock at lower voltage, consume less power at equal speeds, and have better memory access.

 

[Plekto]

Wait a month. The Celeron D 360 is coming out.

Before you start screaming "It's not a P4!", well, since people were mentioning old P4s and so on, it's functionally identical, thanks to its 512K cache.

Yes, you read right - that's essentially a re-badged 65nm process Northwood running at 3.46Ghz. $85. "Celeron" instead of "Pentium" on the cover. Overclock it all you want - it's crazy fast for little cost.

Features:
D0 stepping
Silly low power use.
Identical speed to the same Ghz in the older Northwood series.
Socket 775 - so upgrading later on isn't a big deal.
26x clock multiplier - silly overclocking potential.
Should overclock with an aftermarket air-cooler to 5.2Ghz.(200mhz fsb)

Note - it's not out yet, but the 356, at 3.33Ghz gets to 5Ghz easily. The 360 should easily match it.

You essentially get an older P4 to OC to 5.2Ghz. Even by the most recent dual-core standards, that's mighty fast.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=102033
1/3 the way down - 5.08Ghz 356 running with a large aftermarket air cooler. 55C temp. 10,000 score in 3dmark2005. That's impressive. I don't care what it's named if it gets scores like that.

The 805D needs water cooling to reach this score - it just gets too hot. 55C is high, but not unreasonable.

 

[Crashman]

I've been overclocking Celeron D's, they do go "fast" but are not on level with Northwoods, clock for clock. My 2.6C at 2.6GHz beats my Celeron D 310 (2.13GHz) at 3.2GHz. The Celeron D's are Prescotts with cache removed.

 

[Plekto]

Um - check that again.

THESE ARE ALL NEW CELERONS WITH 512K CACHE.

These are what Intel should have made all along. They are very fast for their cost, especially when you consider that dual-core is mostly wasted for the average user other than the 5% of the time it kicks in in a meaningful manner.