P4-1.7 (478) oc'ing question

[The_Smokey]

Heyas

Everywhere I look to see how high I could overclock my p4-1.7ghz, all I can find references to are the socket 423 variety. So three quick questions:

1) a) Is the Williamette the old core (socket 423), and the Northwood the new core (socket 278)? b) Or are the cores not socket specific?
2) How high could I get my 1.7? Specs are below:

Asus P4T-E motherboard
512 MB RDRAM
Stock Intel heatsink/fan
Two 120mm fans
Two 80mm fans
One 60mm fan
Asus GF3 v8200
SoundBlaster Live Value
10/100 NIC
ATI TV Wonder
CD-R and DVD-ROM
One 60gig HD
One 40gig HD
New Enermax 550 watt PSU

So, what am I looking at? 2ghz max? And will I have to mess with the voltages or will stock be OK? Thanks for any help. I appreciate it.

TheSmokey

 

[Crashman]

You have the old Williamette core. It tops out around 2.1GHz, with good cooling. It always performs worse than the Northwood core.

Socket 423 was Willy only. Socket 478 was for both Willy and Woody. I know you have a Willy because the Woody was not available at that speed, only at 1.6, 1.8, and 2.0 up. All 1.7's and 1.9's are therefore Willies.

The best way to tell whether you're getting a Willy or Woody is that the Woody has 512k cache while the Willy has 256k cache.

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[LtBlue14]

hey guess what i have? a 1.7 ghz willy socket 478!! here's my overclocking experience: after reading about p4's getting sorta unstable and it not bein good for them to run over 1.8 volts, i decided not to push mine over that for safety's sake. anyway before i did that of course i pushed the fsb as high as i could go, i don't remember but i think i got somewhere in the 19's. with the 1.8 volts i posted with 2050 or so, but it was unstable as a mofo, so i pushed it back down to complete stability, passes every burn in test and everything i can throw at it, the fsb is a whopping 114 mhz, yielding 1938 Mhz. 115 crashed after 10 mins or so of intensive work, 114 has no problems. i have a Tt volcano 7+, running on 6000 rpm cuz i accidentally cut one of the speed controller wires and i haven't bothered to strip em and twist em back. oh yeah i also have a vornado house fan going into the side of my comp, for kicks, i wear headphones all the time so noise doesn't bother me. anyway, you probably won't get air cooling a lot better than that, and that's as good as my oc gets.

i wonder if you took the time to read all that. if you did you are probably discouraged. i am too, i just bought retail 1.8a on ebay for $96 + 10 shipping. LtBlue14 = happy man

as for why i got the 1.7 in the first place? it was cheap, and if you think me = newb now, you shoula seen me 4 months ago