Overclocking P4 1.5GHz with P4B-M?

[Thorin]

I'm considering overclocking my P4 1.5GHz. I have an Asus P4B-M, and from having glanced through the manual and read a bit online it looks like the only way I can overclock it is to adjust the System Bus speed by using the jumpers on the motherboard. It has settings of 100MHz, 105MHz, 133MHz and 141MHz. It's currently set at 100, and an increase to 105 doesn't really seem worth it. I'm not sure whether the chip will be able to cope with the System Bus being at 133MHz though. Will I need extra cooling if the processor is able to run at this speed? Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,

Thorin

 

[Guest]

You can determine whether or not it's worth it to overclock using a benchmarking tool like.... BOBMark!

Download BOBMark at http://bobmark.cafwap.net/

Run BOBMark at all the configurations you can overclock the thing at and you'll discover the performance increase you get by overclocking. You can also compare your results with that of competing chips.

 

[charliec2uk]

I think i've got one of those of boards. There are no overclocking options in the BIOS. Weak! I don't think many P4's will go from 100 Mhz to 133. Mine didn't. Yeah, but 105 doesn't really seem worth it.

Charlie

Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.

 

[Guest]

go to 115mhz

 

[Thorin]

I would do, except so far as I can tell, you can only set the FSB speed by dip switches on the motherboard, and there's no 115MHz setting.
Thanks for your help though

Thorin