Overclock pentium 4

[royger]

I have a motherboad Intel GR850 and a Pentium 4 at 1300 anyone knows how to overclock it?

[Hellmund]

Raise the FSB, either through the BIOS, a software manipulater like softFSB or through dip switches on the motherboard. Check the manual on the board to find out whether it has BIOS/dipswitches.

[Nick CPU]

Why.

[Hellmund]

Could you be a little more specific than "why"?

[Nick CPU]

my why was directed to royger. I was asking why anyone would want to overclock a pentium 4 when there is no apparent reason to do so. I guess if you just want to play around with an expensive chip it would be ok.

Just not somthing I personaly would do.

[samwichse]

Why not?

[eweruk]

because

[Hellmund]

He might want more speed for ALL the money he put into it. Plus most P4's run happy at 133mhz FSB it's just that due to the high multipliers there getting overclocked a LOT. Seen a lot of success with people getting P1.5ghz to 2ghz.

[royger]

Do you know where i can dowload FSB for p4/GR850?
It's dangerous to run FSB?

thanks

[royger]

[royger]

I have a p4 at 1300

[Dputiger]

Royger, (and please understand, I mean this kindly):

By asking how to 'Download' FSB, you display an inadequate knowledge of computer hardware for me to personally feel comfortable instructing you in how to overclock your machine.

Overclocking is not dangerous, unless you do not know what you are doing. If you do not know that FSB stands for 'Front-Side-Bus' and what that means, you need to do some research on overclocking basics as well as some machine basics before you try.

I recommend the following:
www.firingsquad.com (http://www.firingsquad.com) www.anandtech.com (http://www.anandtech.com) www.aceshardware.com (http://www.aceshardware.com) www.tomshardware.com (http://www.tomshardware.com)

All of the above websites have a GREAT deal of information available on what overclocking is, the basics of computer hardware involved, the risks it entails, the benefits, and how its done.

I recommend you read them before you attempt to OC your machine. It could save you quite a bit of money and quite a lot of grief.

[alphageek]

Arn't Intel board next to imposible to overclock?

[vesther]

Regardless of the chip, I strongly advise you NOT to overclock your chip whatsoever as overclocking has a high likelihood of causing permanent physical damage to your chip should for any reason ambient temperature overload occur. Thermal Damage due to Overclocking isn't covered under warranty, so I highly suggest that you think twice before you overclock. If you have to overclock, then you really need to use really good cooling materials (i.e. Swiftech) and special PC Hardware Peripherals.

[Dputiger]

Vesther,

I second your warning for the uninitiated.

However, having Occed no fewer than seven Athlon/Duron processors in the last six months, all of them above 35% OCs and several hundred Mhz faster, I can assure you the risks are not that great.

I also agree, it voids the warranty, however, which is a concern to some.

My $22 WBK38-1 is running (and overclocking) my little Duron 600 @ 975, rock-stable, so massive investment is not required. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[conjh13]

Of course for some of us who buy our chips used off eBay, warranty is not an issue. I have never O/C'd before, but I'm trying it now, basically just to see how much it really boosts performance. I'm running dual P3's at 933MHz. O/C should be as easy as raising the cpu clock multiplier in the bios if the bios supports that, correct? Or not?

Yes, I DO have plenty of cooling fans, so overheating is not really in immediate issue. Also, I keep a fairly close watch on cpu temp, which is something I've discovered I can do in my bios. Typical temp (after running for days) for my cpu's at 'normal' speed is 95, and 105 after some particularly heavy gaming, such as UT.

[conjh13]

Bump...

[newbie~wan]

This is a question for anyone posting to this thread. What is a good way to monitor cpu temp?

Most say that it can be done in BIOS but can't BIOS only be accessed at boot up? If Im wrong please tell me, I really don't know.

Also, is there some kind of software that would let me watch cpu temp in real time from windows?

[Hellmund]

Yes the BIOS can only be accessed at boot-up and their are programs. It's dependant on the board though. I think Motherboard monitor is pretty universal though. Abit (http://www.abit.com.tw) has it available for download.

I think Dputiger is right, your better off reading up on overclocking first, that's why I kept how do it very brief without good explanation so you'd have to know what I was talking about to understand.

[newbie~wan]

royger, check out www.karbosguide.com (http://www.karbosguide.com)

It explains everything about computer hardware. I knew NOTHING about hardware before reading this, and thought i'm still a newb, i feel like I can now at least talk w/ these guys on their terms. Got a few hours? You'll learn so much so quick.

Good luck

[Hellmund]

"these guys" can also answer questions should you have trouble understanding something or relating it to something.

[suprsheep2]

Starting with the P2 266, intel locked the multipliers, so now you have to up the FSB and by doing that you can damage your other components because they are not made to run at higher pci or agp speeds, not to mention if you have cheap ram that can be damaged too. If it is not damaged immedeately, it will die over time. Be careful how much you overclock your FSB unless you buy the best quality parts for every area of your computer.