OT Thinkin of upgadin my Chip

[Roberto]

I see, 4.18GHz on a standard air cooled Intel Pentium 3.2GHz Processor, simply by mucking about with the BIOS settings.

Well, seeing as most Pentium 3.2 owners who overclock can just about squeeze out 3.6GHz and keep it stable, you truly must be an overclocking god.

I would patent your process and sell it for vast sums of money if I were you.

Oh, found this quite interesting...


And This site makes interesting reading. A P4 3.2 Extreme Edition O/C'd to 3.5 can barely beat a standard 32bit Athlon XP 3200+ !

I'm afraid facts don't lie.

Rob

 

[Ian]

Rob,

Just wait until I can get a screenshot before you shoot me down.

I promise you that you will eat your words.

 

[Anonymous]

better ensure that you get some nice new crayons - we do want the photoshop to be believable now don't we.

 

[Ben]

For Rob, thanks for your help with the BIOS. Runs hot compared to how it used to when playing Farcry!!

Also, for someone who uttered something about cant download above 400kbs or some general crap... Screen shots never lie, a random download off Microsoft. 2.48mbs peak and 1.89mbs average over 70+ meg. It went up mid download-not down!! Its not the fastest ive had either, you try going on a Uni network on a saturday night-its fast!

Ben.

 

[Anonymous]

sorry mate, can't see a thing, there's an Adobe watermark and I can't quite make out the figures.

 

[Ben]

Bigger hopefully!!

 

[Anonymous]

Nope, still can't make out the numbers, I'm telling you there's an Adobe watermark that's obscuring it.

You did use a genuine copy of Photoshop didn't you?

 

[Ben]

Well they work fine on my PC!! They are just windows screenshots inserted into Paint and then linked through network 54 temp files. Not photoshop required!! Ill look at them later on another PC and see if it happens then.

Ben.

 

[Ian]

sigh

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, let me know.





I'm winding you up, crazee fool!
I can see it from next door. Just wanted you to start getting defensive about the numbers.
]

Ne'r mind, comedy - eh, sometimes it backfires.

 

[Ben]

You Bum!! The Photoshop remark did get me wondering....

 

[Roberto]

All these sighs Ian, but still no sign of proof of the legendary 4.18GHz O/C'd Air cooled PIV 3.2.

Or is all the sighing because you need to increase the airflow to keep it cool ??

@ Ben, nice work mate. I see you increased the vCore. I might give that a go later.

Look for SiSandra Free, Everest, A64 Tweaker and RMclock using Google. Handy little tools


Rob

 

[Anonymous]

lol

 

[Ian]

Now,

I know I'm going to get flamed for this, as you were right Rob, 4.18Ghz is a bit too hot for a standard fan. It finally crashed after 6 hours of playing NFSU2, so it's running at 3.84Ghz instead now, which is a 20% overclocked in the BIOS and it runs fine.

Unfortunately I didn't have that sort of time at work to play NFSU2 to get it to them sort of temperatures, but I did see it at 60 Degrees C.

The funny thing is, now it's at 3.84, it still runs at 60 Degrees C. Maybe a possible flaw with the BIOS?

Anyway, here's the screenshot for proof.

None of this photoshop malarky either guys!

 

[Hellraiser]

So, where is it?

Hellraiser..........>

 

[Ian]

Where's what?

 

[Dan]

copy and paste this into your browser.

www.angelfire.com/linux/rox2/p4speed.JPG

Dan

Time To Make A Change...you knows it...24/7

 

[Hellraiser]

Impressive. Where are you getting the temperature readings from - I would expect if it runs at 60 degrees (which in itself is way too hot) at 4ghz, it should run slightly cooler at a lower clock.

Is it one of the newer Prescott chips you're running? The original ones were shite, they'd go up to 55-60 degrees just running at stock speed.

Hellraiser.........>

 

[Ian]

Newer Prescott chips?

The CPU is 2 months old if that's what your after.

I understand what your saying about the temperature, and I totally agree, it should be lower degrees at lower CPU speed.

Although the new P4 fans have (can't remember the word for the life of me!) that technology built in where the hotter the CPU gets the faster the fan spins... which is why it sticks at 60 degrees.

I runs at 47 degrees with no overclocking.

I'm getting the readings directly from the BIOS.

 

[Ian]

"Well, seeing as most Pentium 3.2 owners who overclock can just about squeeze out 3.6GHz and keep it stable, you truly must be an overclocking god."

Well I wouldn't go that far by saying I'm a god, but I can assure you that it runs at 4.18Ghz, although it may not be stable, it is at 3.84Ghz.

Personally I think it's a lot to do with the memory, as I've seen CPU's running in well excess of 90 degrees C.

The memory in the system is Cosair XMS Dual channel DD400 (2X512mb) memory modules if anyone is interested.

The memory alone was around the £150 mark.