HELP! Can I overclock an Abit TH7 & P4 1.3 GHz ??? HOW??

[Jaredgg]

I am farely green and tryin to get my feet wet in the overclocking world. I have adjusted the mulitiplier as well as the FSB setting several different ways but cannot seem to get the settings to stick. When I reboot, it faults back to 13x mulitiplier and 100 FSB. Please help this Young Patowa learn the ways of the Overclocking Force!!
I have an Abit TH7 and a P4 1.3 GHz

[AmbientFiction]

Jaredgg (Jul 17, 2001 11:36 a.m.):
I am farely green and tryin to get my feet wet in the overclocking world. I have adjusted the mulitiplier as well as the FSB setting several different ways but cannot seem to get the settings to stick. When I reboot, it faults back to 13x mulitiplier and 100 FSB. Please help this Young Patowa learn the ways of the Overclocking Force!!
I have an Abit TH7 and a P4 1.3 GHz

Ok well the mulitiplier is locked the only way to overclock it is to up the FSB. First it would help to know your system and CPU temps also what type of Heatsink you have on that P4

[Pinky]

First, the reason your changes are not saving is probably a speed error hold setting in your softmenu/bios settings for the CPU. This needs to be disabled to keep non-standard/non-default settings once you've rebooted.

If you're using the stock intel heatsink and confirm your temps are only a few degrees over room/case temps, heat will not be an issue. The P4 schips runs very cool. Your RAM and other components will give before it does.

Up the front side bus, keep in mind PCI bus runs best at specs 33mhz, there's a divider that takes the bus speed and sets the PCI bus (default is 100/3=33.333_ or a 1/3 divider). As you increase the bus speed, it increases the PCI speed. Cards running above 40 mhz may fail/not function, which can cause serious issues :).

I know that the P4 can run at 400mhz total bus (default), which is 4 channels of 100mhz. As you raise the bus, this number increases. PC600 RAM runs up to a total of 600mhz bus, 800 / 800mhz, and so on. You can set this to 3 channels, which decrease the total bus speed by 25% (600 would be 450, 800 would be 600), which would attain a higher CPU speed while keeping the memory and PCI speeds closer to defaults and more stable... but wait to see what happens with your current setup before attempting any tweaking beyond this.

Also, there are some helpful links and tutorials on the homepage for this site. Be sure to take an evening and page through there so you get familiar with the terminology and procedures.

Make sure you keep your motherboard manual handy, as it will be your best friend. You should get about 1600mhz (maybe more) from your chip as is, which is pretty nice considering every bonus mhz is for free (minus your time of course).