Couple of P4 questions

[smokin9]

Hello, just had a few questions wondering if anyone could help me out. I was planning on get a either 1.6A or 1.8A northwood and attempt to overclock it possibly. Question is which is better to achieve that? DDR or RDRAM? Also what are good/quiet fans for the P4. Ty!

[Burning Phoenix]

I noticed the people here with those 2 chips are overclocking quite easily using 133 fsb making the 1.8 go to 2.4ghz. As for memory i prefer the higher bandwidth of the RDRAM and haven't heard anyone complain of any limits by it.

[batboy]

The second best socket 478 P-4 cooler is the Sunflower. Does a great job and is relatively quiet, plus lots cheaper than the top rated Swiftech. The 1.8a Northwood looks pretty good for overclocking and is priced pretty good too.

[Yodums]

The Northwood do get hot and for best overclocking I would just get a Swiftech with an 80mm Delta 50 or something which is bottom of the line for quiet!

I heard DDR slowing down the Northwood with overclocking.

By the way BatBoy hows the new chip?

Yodums

[pacino]

Originally posted by Yodums
The Northwood do get hot and for best overclocking I would just get a Swiftech with an 80mm Delta 50 or something which is bottom of the line for quiet!

I heard DDR slowing down the Northwood with overclocking.

By the way BatBoy hows the new chip?

Yodums

Not really, I'm still testing my 2.2 Northy with both DDR pc2100 and RDRAM pc800 .. I'm doing a search for the best DDR memory timing set @ bios .. if I get that right, I would be able to let you know what is going on.. So far, I see no difference in 3dmark2001 scoring!! Although DDR runs slower.. *sigh*

[smokin9]

Ok so rdram should be able to get to 133 no problem then? I dont really have any experience with i850 chipset so i dont know if theres way to lock the memory speed settings or agp/pci settings. Thanks for the info guys

[Yodums]

Originally posted by smokin9
Ok so rdram should be able to get to 133 no problem then? I dont really have any experience with i850 chipset so i dont know if theres way to lock the memory speed settings or agp/pci settings. Thanks for the info guys

It should get there no problem, yes.

[Grande Juan]

If you have the stock HSF already, get the swifty. The Sunflower isn't much better than stock, just a faster fan, and looks cool. Wish I would have bought a Swiftech.:(

[Cooler666]

Originally posted by Grande Juan
If you have the stock HSF already, get the swifty. The Sunflower isn't much better than stock, just a faster fan, and looks cool. Wish I would have bought a Swiftech.:(

i nearly bought the sunflower, i'm lucky i didn't buy it then, i'm still using the retails fan and heatsink. I can't stand the noise of the swiftech or Delta

[Cooler666]

actually i was gonna get the Zalman Flower Pentium IV CNPS6500-alcu 'silent' CPU Cooler http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Other_CPU_and_System_Coolers_18.h tml
i think its better than the AVC, looks really cool too

[smokin9]

Yea, well id like to get a good quiet fan if there are any. Right now i got a golden orb with the fan spinnin at around 7000rpms and it sounds like a jet or something.