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| Thread ID: 50580 | 2004-10-25 10:48:00 | Why doesn't Intel increase clock speeds (like OCing but factory set) | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 284533 | 2004-10-26 03:26:00 | Believe me i wish it was that easy. The difference between Celeron and Pentium is the cache size. Cache is expensive and therefore Celeron has little cache to keep costs down. A slow P4 chip can therefore run faster than a faster celeron as cache is extremely important for performance. I don't think Intel 'overclocks' them for faster speeds in a FSB sense, how it is done is beyond me. Read webster.cs.ucr.edu if you really want to know how a computer works ;) - David |
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| 284534 | 2004-10-26 03:57:00 | I'm picking that you would also be willing to spend the extra money they would charge for the 3.06GHz instead of the 2.4GHz? | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 284535 | 2004-10-26 04:05:00 | Intel are not in the business of "overclocking". They sell CPUs with a specified speed. They can guarantee that if run at the specified speed they won't break. There's a fair chance the company won't go broke doing that. Intel have in the past had problems with "entrepreneurs" buying Intel chips, grinding off the Intel markings, and selling them as faster ones. People complained to Intel when they failed. If you want to overclock, that's up to you. But you lose the guarantee. |
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| 284536 | 2004-10-26 04:21:00 | >what board, memory,vid card on that setup george ? Not sceptical just interested since I am having problems getting past 2.8 on my 2.4 cel d mind you it could be due the the crap memory and mobo its running on Well, my motherboard is a Foxconn 661FX4MR-ES (www.foxconnchannel.com), and my memory is cheap ADATA DDR400 (1 stick of 512). Now, I had problems too, when I tried to put it above 2.88GHZ, it would not boot, or shutdown if it was already in Windows. And by shutdown I mean like pull out plug kind. That was with FSB 162 or something. So, I suddenly realised that I was trying to run my cheap RAM at DDR 487 speeds. So, in the BIOS I found the FSB:RAM ratio and changed it to 1:1. I found that this, even though only 170mhz RAM speed, offered the best performance, outperforming 5:4 (212mhz). So I set the FSB now at 170mhz and all goes sweet as. PCI is a bit high (42 mhz), but no problems have occurred. BTW, if anybody knows how to change the FSB:PCI ratio for this board please tell me. Cheers |
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