Anyone had a chance to o/c the Northwood B's yet?

Hi. I was thinking of buying a P4 2.26GHZ Processor with the 533MHZ FSB. I wanted to know if anybody has had a chance to overclock these new Northwoods yet? Do they overclock as well as the earlier Northwoods like the 1.6A? What motherboard would you recommend? Also, what would work better for both performance and overclocking, PC1066 RDRAM or DDR400 RAM? I know many of you disagree on this, but I still can't decide which one to get. Thanks for the help.

Agreed.

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Is your RAM at full speed or 300?

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Seriously fugger, that result is outstanding, you must use some pretty heavy cooling, VapoChill ?

Memory setting must be at 300 with that FSB and PC800 Samsung RDRAM, no doubt about that.

Please give some more details about the setup. I would never have expected what is essentially a factory overcloked 1.8A, running at 2.4B, would overclock that much further all the way up to FSB 173, no matter what kind of cooling is used.

I'm speechless.


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FB,

Like I said, I wasn't talking about the niche product of PC800 that can do PC1066. Read my post again.

Bum_Rush was asking how PC1066 and DDR400 was at overclocking. If you exclude niche products that came out in the last few months because of the lack of official standards, and instead look at DDR333 and PC800, then you can surmise that since PC800 was a bad overclock compared to DDR333 that DDR400 would likely be a better overclock than PC1066

Again, I am comparing past products of DDR333 with PC800 to draw conclusions on todays products of DDR400 and PC1066. This conclusion may be wrong. I don’t prefer DDR over RDRAM, so I’m not some zealot with a blind eye. I’m just giving my opinion based on experience in order to help someone out. So FB, cut me some slack, your all over me every single post I make.

Most pc1600, FROM ALL BRANDS, hits 2100 easily, its just like pc100 ram to 133, most pc1600 is downbinned, process refinements have made ram which bins @1600 very rare.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled debate.

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My ram is at the 300Mhz divider.

I use <A HREF="http://www.lytron.com" target="_new">Carswell AC</A> + custom watercooling now. I recently adopted watercooling and taken it to the extreme.

Here is <A HREF="http://fugger.netfirms.com/woody.JPG" target="_new">my chiller</A> set at -17c

This is looking <A HREF="http://fugger.netfirms.com/installing.JPG" target="_new">inside the case</A>, there are no fans in my system now.

You can see my GF4 waterblock hanging, I was watching for condensation and checking temp with laser temp sensor. That block is silver plated copper.

My motherboard is holding me back at 170FSB, I have a few new prospects on the way.

My DRCG crap out at 155x4.

If you notice my voltages in the 3122Mhz pic, That is a tweaked Enermax 431 whisper quiet. That is how you want your "rails" to read under full load.

You are limited to what your mind can perceive.

That's impressive, but I hate screenshots of LN2 cooled that are barely stable enough to boot.

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That's damn impressive. Is it stable under full load?

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Point me to where I can get PC1066 cheaper than DDR400 and I'll be a happy camper.

Gosh I'm such a nerd sometimes, but then again arn't we all.

Well gee, DDR really did drop in price the past couple weeks didn't it. I should check more often!

Then again, the price difference is around 50%, which sound's like a lot, until you look at it like this-it will raise your overall system performance at least 5%, whill adding about 5% to the total system price. An even payoff for toping off a highend system is still a good deal!

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

I have setup a few 2.4B's with stock cooling and the average 2.8 ~ 2.9Ghz without mods @ 1.7 vcore.

My 2.4B is not hand picked, it was one of the first batches released from newegg.com

I have new motherboards arriving today and tomorrow.

The northwood B run at a lower vcore than the A at higher speeds = lower temps.

Northwood A = sub 3Ghz
Northwood B = 3+ Ghz
with good cooling on average so far

1.6A best bang for the buck on budget
2.26B is the new "300A"

Samsung updated RAMBUS roadmap, very nice stuff planned for RDR platform.

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You are limited to what your mind can perceive.