Looking to overclock an IC7 series

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Thinking about overclocking an IC7 series?

Hi all,

If you are just starting out overclocking and have an IC7 or an IC7 Max 3 board, I've posted a number thoughts over on the Abit forum for your perusal. It was as comprehensive and straight forward as I could make it.

Overclocking an IC7 series

Hope it helps, navig

P4 2.4 C @ 3.06 (FSB=255)
IC7 Max 3 bios 13
Zalman 7000 CNPS7000A-Cu, Arctic Silver 5
256 x 2 Corsair Twins 3200 LL (2.8V/5:4/2,5,3,2/GAT=AAADD)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160gb SATA
Pioneer DVR-106
Antec True Blue 480
Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro (510/340)
ClearPC case

 

[Jon187]

Thx for the link.

 

[InvisGreenMan]

Do you HAVE to disable HT? I thought that the CPU would perform better with it enabled, even if it lowers the overclock.

 

[wingman99]

If you are a gamer disable HT it will slow down the games. Unless you like to encode mp3 while playing games all the time then it will help.

 

[Perre]

Is there really a noticable difference by playing with or without HT enabled. Or is it just a difference in terms of 200fps vs. 190fps?

You get the idéa.

 

[batboy]

In Win XP, there are more advantages to having HT enabled than having it disabled. If you are playing a game a lot that does happen to run better with HT off, then by all means disable it. But we aren't talking much performance difference. I leave my HT on all the time.