Newbie P4 Overclocking

[t4h]

I got this brand new P4 1.4GHz, which I plan to overclock. I use an Asus P4T mainboard. Generic cooler with generic thermal paste in a full-tower with a HD cooler and an additional sytem cooler mounted in a 5,25" bay, both from Titan.

Now I need some instructions on how to overclock (by hardware or BIOS) and to what rate. Will I need an additional fan of some sort?

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/ Topaz

 

[wapaaga]

if you want to over clock then your going to want to get a lot better heat sink then the genric

look around other hardware site and look at heat sink review becuase you aren't going to go far with out a good heat sink

 

[t4h]

Well, assuming that I do have the right heatsink, how far could I push the P4 processor, and how would I do it?

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/ Topaz

 

[wapaaga]

frist youy have to take it off jumper free mode
then got to this site it shows all the settings for the fsb

<A HREF="http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentium4/p4t/jumper.html" target="_new">http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentium4/p4t/jumper.html</A>
make sure you change te memory thing to three if you go over
about 113 mhz
the only problem with this is that you are going to under clock you agp and pci slots

how far you can go changes form chip to chip so what you have to do is push it until it becomes unstable then either up the voltage or back of the fsb run some benchmark programs that use the cpu is uassly a good way of telling if the cpu is stable

your going to want to watch your tempature when overclocking

 

[wapaaga]

alright i did somethinking last night and figured your best bet is going to be to go to 113mhz because that won't undeclock any of your slots and also it would give you a 182 mhz increase over what you have know taking you to 1582

 

[t4h]

I'll probably change the FSB to 112MHz because it clearly stays under the 900MHz boundry of the RDRAM (just to be on the safe side), and that the jumper page at asus' homepage covers 112MHz FSB. Now, as I got a 1.4ghz P4, and want it to a 112Mhz FSB, is this the correct jumper setting?:

SW01: OFF
SW02: ON
SW03: ON
SW04: OFF
SW05:
SW06: OFF
SW07: OFF
SW08: OFF
SW09: ON
SW10: ON

But what do you mean with <font color=red>"because that won't undeclock any of your slots"</font color=red>? Could you explain how FSB influences the AGP and PCI slots?

And BTW, how do I disable JumperFree Mode? And after all the settings have been made to the jumper, do I have to set the CPU clock frequency to 1600 in BIOS (even though the actual frequency would be 1568)?

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/ Topaz

 

[wapaaga]

go back to the webpage and
take alook at the 100 and the second 120 you will see that the agp and pci speeds are less than the one hunder this is what happens when you use the setting of three on, for the memory

the speed of the fsb is actual what is used by the commputer for running the agp and pci
it is just set by using a fraction like 1/3 for regular pc 100
this would make your pci bus be at 33 mhz

as you can see with a setting of three you have to go over 150 to get all the slot back to normal becuase the fraction has change to a point where it take that much speed to equall it out

you actual will get a little bit better performance out of the pci cards and the agp cards

by wht it looks like the last swicth controls the three four setting

look at that webpage there are pictures for the 112 in the second set in the second. it is the second on in

also thethe first set in the second row. and the second one in shows the setting for 14 of the switch
if you want to look at thoes

what you have sounds right

 

[t4h]

Well, I think I've got the jumper right too, after checking the page, but what I meant was that you probably should check that I'm right aswell. Probably safest that way.

And how do I disable JumperFree mode? And after all the settings have been made to the jumper, do I have to set the CPU clock frequency to 1600 in BIOS (even though the actual frequency would be 1568)?


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/ Topaz