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FENRlZ   06-21-2002 at 02:32:45 PM

I work as a sales manager, and I have a prominant customer who´s interested in buying overclocked Pentium 4 Northwood systems for CAD/CAM. Are the Northwoods easily overclocked, or are the multipliers locked like on the new Athlons and Durons?

Which motherboard and chipset is best considering overclocking the Northwoods? I´d like to use Asus, Abit or EpoX...

I won´t be needing on-board VGA or audio. LAN would be nice , but RAID is very important! Price is not that big a deal, but quality is, I really need this to work!

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orc5   06-21-2002 at 04:32:13 PM
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The multipliers are locked on pentiums, not athlons.

With good pieces (a good motherboard and good memory) most pentiums using a northwood core can get gains of 600-800mHZ without buying new heat sinks or fans.

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FatBurger   06-21-2002 at 05:26:47 PM
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Get the 1.6A or 1.8A, both should be able to be overclocked by at least 40%.
The best motherboard would be the Abit TH7II-RAID, and grab some Samsung RDRAM.

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pr497   06-21-2002 at 05:29:49 PM
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Overclocking the Northwoods???


lol...thats kind of an oxymoron...
anyways...the main reason why people buy P4's with the northwood core is to overclock them....
anyhoo...all P4 multipliers are laser-locked...so theres no way of unlocking them...so the only way to overclock the P4 is through the FSB.
the best motherboard to overclock a P4 would still be the abit TH7-II (with or without RAID) with rdram.
someone in this forum (<b><font color=green>FatBurger</b></font color=green> to be specific) got his P4 1.6A with the TH7-II and some samsung rdram to about 2.5 ghz.

:eek: <b>Who fixed <font color=red>ATI</font color=red>'s leaky faucet??</b> :eek:

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