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- Cincinnati, OH
HI everyone. Looks like a good forum here! Looking forward to a little help. Apologize if this is repetitious and if so, let me know and I'll go look for some threads that answer my questions...
This weekend, put together a brand spankin' new P4 1.8A, with Asus P4B266, 512MB PC2100 Kingston stick, GF2 Ti, SB Live! 5.1, 60GB 7200 RPM Maxtor HDD.
First - I want to keep stock cooling for now.
Second - I'm running very stable at native settings.
Third - How should I start? Experiment with FSB setting in BIOS? What if I do something and can't POST? Can I still get into BIOS at that point and turn down FSB clock?
Do I need to mess around with voltages on CPU if I want to get up to, say, 2.2? Any watchouts when messing with voltages?
Are there any calculations I should do or is it just experimenting and trial/error?
I'm assuming I start with FSB Clock and find something stable with current cpu voltage. When I max this out, I may need to up the voltage on chip to increase FSB clock further. Is that right?
Any need to mess around with other speeds? AGP, PCI, RAM?
Your help and insight is appreciated!
This weekend, put together a brand spankin' new P4 1.8A, with Asus P4B266, 512MB PC2100 Kingston stick, GF2 Ti, SB Live! 5.1, 60GB 7200 RPM Maxtor HDD.
First - I want to keep stock cooling for now.
Second - I'm running very stable at native settings.
Third - How should I start? Experiment with FSB setting in BIOS? What if I do something and can't POST? Can I still get into BIOS at that point and turn down FSB clock?
Do I need to mess around with voltages on CPU if I want to get up to, say, 2.2? Any watchouts when messing with voltages?
Are there any calculations I should do or is it just experimenting and trial/error?
I'm assuming I start with FSB Clock and find something stable with current cpu voltage. When I max this out, I may need to up the voltage on chip to increase FSB clock further. Is that right?
Any need to mess around with other speeds? AGP, PCI, RAM?
Your help and insight is appreciated!