P4 Overclocking Guide

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Man that's so funny. I guess I was just wondering why this broken sticky hasn't been removed.

Plus the formant, type, font, color, etc. on the other OC forums aren't user friendly. I like to do my reading here whenever possible. It has nothing to do with being lazy or incompetent.
 
isn't overclocking a P4 at this point kind of like sleeping with your sister? sure it's fun while it lasts, but afterwards, it's still wrong... I mean there are so many chips out there that can blow a P4(even a massively OC'd one) off the map without needing LN2 cooling or a fission reactor to keep them going.
 
Of course, but some people don't have the money or a reason to upgrade from the wonder chip of the cretaceous period, and/or just want to have fun trying to burn the thing up. The linked guide isn't really showing them how to blow up their chip.
 
What makes me confused is that this thread was made in '03 while the next post was made 2years later. When was this thread stickied? Why was it stickied??

Anyways, this Sticky is useless, the you can use the C2D OCing guide as a guideline, since it's the same concept.
 

And add "Do NOT fry eggs on top of your freaking huge cooler."
 
I would love to see someone cook up some food with heat supplied only by P4's. would probably only take 2 or 3 of them to do the trick.
 
That's some nice overclocking there, the dude with the celeron. I just tried re-overclocking my p4 for some fun before I make my new system, I got it up to 3.66 doing the manual overclock with some tighter timings for my corsair ram. I am only using stock cooler though, I might be able to squeeze a little more out of it though.

I have a question though, how come it won't let me go higher? do I need more voltage or what? Because the temp is still at 40c not even warm.
 


I saw a video where someone cooked an egg on an xbox 360. :)
 
I've gotten my P4 631 up to 4.2GHz stable (15x multiplier) on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R. With the stock heatsink, it was at about 47C. I'm using this and not a dual core becuase I was able to pick this one up brand new for dirt cheap off of ebay. Factory sealed too. It's sitting in my fist build which I got up and running a few days ago. Planning on upgrading it in a few months, hopefully.

Anyway, I just want to know the maximum voltage this thing will handle without destroying itself. Intel says 1.325GHz, but I'm guessing it's more like 1.4/1.5 as the 661's envelope is 1.25-1.4.

Can someone clarify?
 
i had a p4 531 a while back on arctic freezer 7 got 3.9 at about 1.43 i think, as for they guys with 900mhz duron, the old athons dont like much in terms of raising fsb, if u can id suggest upping the multi
 
I recently purchased some RAM that is PC2 5300 (DDR2 667) - my P4 has a 800mhz fsb. I was wondering if I could just do some simple modification to increase my FSB without really messing around with the core speed.
 
Hey, I know this is a stupid question, but I only got into the hardware parts of computers since around December this year, so I missed out on socket 478 stuff ^.^ My dad bought the P4 at the end of the P4 generation so it sucked. Some friend of his suggested all the parts and put it together for my dad. Incase you're wondering, it's P4 3.0ghz socket 478 (forgot stepping), no name DDR1 512m ram, Radeon 9250 128m DDR2, 80gig hard drive (never heard of brand), ASUS P4S800 mobo.

Got it from 200x15 to 210x15 with no voltage change. Can't go any higher cuz stupid $25 PSU gets jumpy under load, horrible Vcore under load, and the darn P4's at like 54 celcius during OCCT. Anyone willing to explain to tell me how I can take off Intel's stock heatsink? (so I can put some arctic silver on it :) I remember that I may have tried pulling on it really hard when I was younger... didn't come off though)

So yea, just asking, how to take off the stock heatsink XD I'm familiar with AM2/3 sockets, if that's relevant...
 
I have a pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GHz, is it possible for this CPU to be overclocked? well, I have a white macbook also, but i want to try myslef in overclocking on that old PC.
 
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