Need help in Overclocking my 2000A

[Lord_Nykon]

Hey guys, I am new at this overclocking stuff
Can someone shed some light here as to how I overclock my 2000A processor
thanks alot

laterz

[batboy]

It's the same as any other Intel system, you need to have an overclocking friendly motherboard with adjustable FSB. Perhaps you can tell us what your components are, we need much more data.

[Yodums]

Like Batboy said theres more to it other than giving us your chip.

[MadMan007]

Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of overclocking!! and welcome to the forums.

And what those two guys said. :)

[Lord_Nykon]

Currently, it is a
P4 Northwood Processor at 2000A(2 Ghz)
Looking to clock it over to a 2.8 ghz
Got 512 MB Kingston RDRAM PC800 ECC(2x256)
a 180 GB HD at 7200 RPM
350w Enermax Dual Fan Power Supply
16x SLot load DVD
a Windows XP Pro wit a Windows 98 SE on another partition for a dual boot
Geforce3 64 mb DDR Video
SB Audiology X-Gamer 5.1 Sound Card
Motherboard:
http://www.axiontech.com/cgi-local/prdtinfo.asp?prdt=MBABTH7IIRAI
Got a GlacialTech Igloo 4300 Heatsink
there is my setup
Hope its nice

laterz

[batboy]

It looks like a sweet system, actually very similar to the one I'm currently building. You overclock those Abit mobos through the BIOS. Read and study and understand your manual thoroughly is the first step. You'll need to raise the FSB in the BIOS by setting "user define" FSB first, like maybe 112 MHz to start out with (2.24 gig). Make sure the "speed error check" in the BIOS is disabled too. Personally, I'd say that a 2.8 gig goal is a bit ambious. Most of those 2.0a Northwoods seem to be hitting 2.5 to 2.6 gig on average. True, some are doing better, but since you're just starting out, you might set your sights a little lower, at least at first anyway until you get your feet wet.

[scandisk]

We have an Asus P4B266 845D with DDR and a PIV Northwood 2.000 Mhz, in a normal case with 300W power supply and NORMAL HEATSINK AND COOLING FAN....
.... and ALL WORKS FINE WITH HARD WORK AT

2.667 MHZ

and only +4ºCelsius (33ºC in "normal" mode and 37ºC in 2667Mhz)

[Yodums]

Scandisk are those full load temperature or just surfing the web?

Lord do what batboy said. But before you do that I recommend you to get a program called motherboard monitor and then setup the sensors and get Prime 95...

Why?

Motherboard Monitor measures your temperature so in this case it won't go over board or something.

Prime 95 is a program which adds 100% stress to the computer to test if its stable or not unless you like to run your chip with BSOD or something every sec.

This is called putting your temperature to full load. Temperature shouldn't be exceeding 45-50.

Then start raising the FSB to whatever. When it comes to a point where it won't post or becomes unstable. Raise the vcore 0.5 by 0.5 (Assuming the temperature is still good). Vcore adds more voltage to the chip as running it beyond manufactures speed will create more speed and more need of voltage to either post or stay stable. Don't raise the voltage for nothing. Raising the voltage causes heats so keep an eye at your temp full load.

PS: Just if you didn't know Intel multipliers are locked so don't bother with them.

Yodums