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p4 northwood 2.6C ghz

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tehswiftone

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Hey I was wondering if this chip is good for ocing. My core voltage is 1.7v my ram voltage is 2.8v. Right now I am running like 39c to 42c. My FSB is around 223 I believe. I can’t check it right now because I am at school but I will when I get home. My friend said that I should turn my hyper threading on? I don’t know if it is on or not my fsb is in the 200's so does that mean that it is not on. Sorry if I sound stupid I do not know allot about ocing. I need to know if my voltages are too high. And I need to know if I should enable hyper threading. If it isn’t enabled.



Abit IS7 motherboard
Intel Northwood P4 2.6 running at 2.98
PC3500 Kingston HyperX ram
Radeon AIW 9700
WD 36 gig Raptor HDD
80gb Seagate Barracuda
 
hyperthread (HT) will more than likely be enabled but that has nothing to do with overclocking. 1.700 vcore is pushing it, stay below 1.65 for now. Read the sticks at the top of this page, that will help alot.
 
tehswiftone said:
Hey I was wondering if this chip is good for ocing. My core voltage is 1.7v my ram voltage is 2.8v. Right now I am running like 39c to 42c. My FSB is around 223 I believe. I can’t check it right now because I am at school but I will when I get home. My friend said that I should turn my hyper threading on? I don’t know if it is on or not my fsb is in the 200's so does that mean that it is not on. Sorry if I sound stupid I do not know allot about ocing. I need to know if my voltages are too high. And I need to know if I should enable hyper threading. If it isn’t enabled.



Abit IS7 motherboard
Intel Northwood P4 2.6 running at 2.98
PC3500 Kingston HyperX ram
Radeon AIW 9700
WD 36 gig Raptor HDD
80gb Seagate Barracuda


I have a very similar setup and here's what I got out of mine. My chip is made in China out of all places. I think my chip max out at 258FSB with a 5:4 divider and default voltage. I don notice that my IS7 is undervoltage so I set it manually to 1.525V.

Abit IS7 motherboard (Bios 23)
Intel P4 2.6C at 3250 (13x250)
1GB PC3200 Consair Value (2x512) ram
Geforce 4 Ti-4200 128MB
WD 160GB HDD
Seagate 160GB Barracuda
 
The easiest way to check if HT is on is to push ctrl-alt-del and look at the performance chart and see if there are two cpu graphs. It's not set by your FSB speed though, so that has nothing to do with it.

Also, I'd say that 1.7 is way higher than you should be running your vcore..... try 1.6V first and see how high you can overclock on that, just use Prime95 to check your stability once you've overclocked to a fairly high speed (use the Torture Test in the Options menu).
 
my friend has been running his [email protected] for over a year now........he has a mach 1 so that is the big help..........not sure what his vcore is??

regardless u should get a good overclock
 
my friend has been running his [email protected] for over a year now........he has a mach 1 so that is the big help..........not sure what his vcore is??

regardless u should get a good overclock
 
Well i can get my fsb up alot higher but my computer crashes a few seconds into windows.
 
ok i just put my voltage down to 1.6 and im still up. See how much i cna get my fsb up now
 
Just chiming in here... I think it's still in my sig... but I got a 3.3g OC stable @ 1.65 vcore... not the greatest I know, but I think I could get more out of it; my p.o.s. budget board keeps my fsb locked @ no higher than 255. Not sure which rev Northwood I've got, but I haven't had any stability issues yet.
 
I used to have the best 2.6C, was stable at 3.6Ghz. I was an idiot and pumped 1.7 (was stable @ 1.6V core) and left it at 1.7V. After a month, my processor wouldn't go over 3.25. 2.6C's usually topout at around 3.25, some people can get 3.4 if there lucky, that is why I consiter my ol' 2.6c a superchip. What I learned: Dont pump more than 1.6V through a Northwood unless you want GNDS.
 
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Keep that voltage at 1.65 or less. Remember these are electronics. Rule of thumb is 10%. Sooo, if the default voltage is 1.5v, the max should be about 1.65v. To keep it safe I stay below 1.625v to avoid SNDS/GNDS. My chip does 3.4 easily and will post around 3.53gHz. On only air cooling I am forced to keep it at 3.4(See siggy). Its Prime95 Stable for 48hrs at this speed. Most 2.6C's that I have seen will do 3.25gHz. Only the lucky ones seem to get much higher.

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