Eventually overclocking is a never ending disease....!
When I was building my P4-RDRAM system (check rig) I decided (thought so anyway...) not to deal with overclocking again and stay with the more than satisfactory stock performance of my system (except the vid card ok!). But how can u leave the ASUS P4T-E without exploring its limits and trying its legendary stability??
So I went for it being quite afraid for my Willie's o/cing capabilities (didn't get the 1.6A damn!). Note that the mobo has the 600Mhz ICS-13 RDRAM clock generators and the ATX12V P4 connector plugged in with a 300WPSU. All was done in steps beginning from an easy 112FSB and RDRAM multiplier set to 3x in order to protect it past 800 Mhz as I knew I would try @133 for sure (after all stock memory bandwidth is already huge, why risk it and let the memory be my possible bottleneck even if I have Samsung RIMMs?). Next step was 120FSB where I had to raise the voltage to 1.8, 125 and eventually 133 just by bumping the voltage to 1.85. AGP and PCI buses were adjusted automatically by the mobo (now running right in spec) and I tested all frequencies while benchmarking Max Payne with the CPU demo plus Sandra's burn-in wizard for an hour-not a single crash or BSOD...! Of course it's only a 2 days o/c but I am very optimistic about it by watching the temps reach 47C maximium at heavy load (3D gaming, Sandra).
Question is how is all that possible with only an additional case cooler.... I know the ASUS can go much further rock solid but for my Wilamette, I never expected such overclockability with so "low" temps (or it isn't that low...?)! Am I just too lucky with the specific chip? I don't know its origin (Costa Rica or Malay) since I build the rig at my local retailer to give u more info....Any comments and remarks highly acceptable guys!
When I was building my P4-RDRAM system (check rig) I decided (thought so anyway...) not to deal with overclocking again and stay with the more than satisfactory stock performance of my system (except the vid card ok!). But how can u leave the ASUS P4T-E without exploring its limits and trying its legendary stability??
So I went for it being quite afraid for my Willie's o/cing capabilities (didn't get the 1.6A damn!). Note that the mobo has the 600Mhz ICS-13 RDRAM clock generators and the ATX12V P4 connector plugged in with a 300WPSU. All was done in steps beginning from an easy 112FSB and RDRAM multiplier set to 3x in order to protect it past 800 Mhz as I knew I would try @133 for sure (after all stock memory bandwidth is already huge, why risk it and let the memory be my possible bottleneck even if I have Samsung RIMMs?). Next step was 120FSB where I had to raise the voltage to 1.8, 125 and eventually 133 just by bumping the voltage to 1.85. AGP and PCI buses were adjusted automatically by the mobo (now running right in spec) and I tested all frequencies while benchmarking Max Payne with the CPU demo plus Sandra's burn-in wizard for an hour-not a single crash or BSOD...! Of course it's only a 2 days o/c but I am very optimistic about it by watching the temps reach 47C maximium at heavy load (3D gaming, Sandra).
Question is how is all that possible with only an additional case cooler.... I know the ASUS can go much further rock solid but for my Wilamette, I never expected such overclockability with so "low" temps (or it isn't that low...?)! Am I just too lucky with the specific chip? I don't know its origin (Costa Rica or Malay) since I build the rig at my local retailer to give u more info....Any comments and remarks highly acceptable guys!