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| 278224 | 2004-10-04 11:29:00 | Hi everyone,Ive got a northwood p4 2.26,am running it on a Intel 845 chipset motherboard,was lookin at getting a new motherboard,but still keep my cpu.My current motherboard only supports 4x agp and up to ddr 333,and was wanting to get a new graphics card and sum ddr 400 ram. I have a few questions: Can anyone tell me what a good motherboard would be to go with my 2.26 and secondly can I o/c this chip much?? Cheerz. |
demario (4943) | ||
| 278225 | 2004-10-04 19:11:00 | Depends what you want on a mobo. SATA/Firewire/sound/USB 2 etc. Any 478 pin mobo will do. Theres different brand. Asus, Gigabyte, Msi,ECS etc. Dont know bout overclocking. I dont o/c myself. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 278226 | 2004-10-04 19:31:00 | It would also help if you mentioned your budget, if the budget is tight then one of the Abit boards based on the 865P chipset would be a good choice. If you can stretch the budget a bit further then an Abit based on the 875P chipset would be even better. If your planning to get a good overclock you'll also need some good RAM and a good HSF. >Theres different brand. Asus, Gigabyte, Msi,ECS etc. ECS are a pile of ****, i wouldnt touch one with a 10ft barge pole. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 278227 | 2004-10-04 19:32:00 | Asus very good boards and excellent to o/c...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 278228 | 2004-10-04 19:51:00 | > Asus very good boards and excellent to o/c...... Yeah I'd recommend Asus too. A real nice and cheap unit is the P4S533-X. Also re your cpu - I believe that the 2.4 can be wound up to around 3gig with it's stock cooler - if yours has the same cooler I'm sure you can put it up to 2.8 happily |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 278229 | 2004-10-04 20:13:00 | > > Asus very good boards and excellent to o/c...... > > Yeah I'd recommend Asus too. A real nice and cheap > unit is the P4S533-X. Also re your cpu - I believe > that the 2.4 can be wound up to around 3gig with it's > stock cooler - if yours has the same cooler I'm sure > you can put it up to 2.8 happily. Abit are widely regarded as the Kings of Overclocking, DFI have recent made an effort to claim the crown, but speaking for experience their P4 boards leave alot to be desired. The P4S533-X wouldnt exactly be my first choice when choosing a motherboard to overclock with. The SiS® 645DX chipset isnt exactly know for its overclocking and the fact that the fastest FSB it support is 133MHz will really limit your overclocking The 2.4 that easily hit 3.0GHz+ was the 2.4C the only 2.26 made was a 2.26B. The only B chips that were good overclockers were the 1.60GHz and the 1.80GHz. If you hit 2.60Ghz with the 2.26 you could consider yourself lucky. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 278230 | 2004-10-04 20:26:00 | nice to know now i realise why on the odd occasionn i've oc'd my pc it ran so well it's a 2.4c 800fsb and clocks to 3.0ghz fine as runs well at that.......even during a sandra burn in test it only got to 45 deg.......(yeh i know .....temp monitors aint that good.....but my finger tells me plenty when I touch the heatsink........it's fine........I even once got it to run at 3.2ghz but only very breifly just to see if it could .........I'm runnin a Asus P4s800 board ......it's good | drcspy (146) | ||
| 278231 | 2004-10-04 23:50:00 | Thanks for your input everyone. Pete,was thinking of 875 chipset,as far as price goes can spend up to bout $300 if I had to,but cheaper than that would be better. Was just lookin at my cpu spec on AIDA 32 and it says its a Intel Pentium 4A? |
demario (4943) | ||
| 278232 | 2004-10-04 23:55:00 | If I cant o/c much im not too fussed,just thought that If I could o/c a bit would be better than buying a new cpu. As far as ram goes,I take it you mean branded ram rather than generic?Whats HSF by the way? |
demario (4943) | ||
| 278233 | 2004-10-05 00:25:00 | I'd expect you to get a reasonable overclock out of the CPU, you dont know what core it has? Northwood or Willemette? I assumed it was based on the Northwood core with 512k Lvl2 cache and a 533MHz FSB? I think your best bet is to get a motherboard based on the 865/875 chipset, they officially support CPU with an FSB up to 800MHz and the majority will do 1000MHz+. I wouldnt expect you to get an FSB any higher than 800MHz so buying a 865/875 motherboard elminates the motherboard when your trying to find out whats holding you back in your overclock. It would be a good idea to find out what FSB and core you have as some motherboards may not be compatiable with your CPU. Based on your budget id reckonmend either the Abit IS7 or the IC7. I'd probably go for the IS7 as its cheaper, it does use the 865 chipset but the performance difference is negligible. Either way both are good just have a look at both boards and decide which one you like. Yeah i mean branded RAM, i wouldnt expect you to get the FSB above 200MHz so some good quality DDR400 should do the job nicely. The likes of Kingston, Corsair and Mushkin make some very nice RAM but its overkill for what you need. Perhaps consider some Kingston value ram, Kingmax or Legend, there a lil more expensive than crappy generic RAM but should preform better. You could buy some DDR433 and underclock it this would allow you to tighten up your timings and get a small performance increase. Remember to buy 2 sticks so you can enable dual channel, which is important with Intel systems. HSF stands for HeatSink Fan, its the CPU cooler. The stock cooler that comes with the CPU wont allow you to overclock its very far. Consider something like Thermaltake Pipe101 with a 92mm silent cat or a Thermalright SP-94 with a 92mm silent cat or other 92mm fan. Both are very good coolers, the SP-94 is probably a slightly better preformer but also a lil more expensive and harder to source. Just about any PC shop should have the Pipe101 in stock whereas only a few shops in NZ stock the SP-94. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
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