Newbie with some Questions

[johnlgalt]

johnlgalt
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Joined: Nov 2002
11/26/2002 7:42 AM (NEW!)



K, since I am a newbie to the forums, I guess the easiest way to get my answer is to ask directly. My rig that I began building in Jan and finished in May is decent, but I guess I screwed myself in some aspects. The old hunk that it replaced *was* a P200 (non MMX) with 96 MB RAM and a 3 GB HD, so........

I built this one from scratch - P4 20A / Northwood, 1.25 GB PC2100 DDR, Tyan Trinity 510 (s2266) motherboard, Dual IBM Deskstar 18 GB HDs (I skimped on storage - for now), QPS Que Fire 16X10X40X burner removed from case and installed a master on secondary IDE channel, with a generic 48X ROM as slave, and an nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 based GA with 64 MB and dual heads.

Is it even worth it to try to play with it and overclock? Just for reference, I have 20 80 mm Fans pushing through, and I bought the ThermalTake Dragon Orb w/ the Switch, so I can definitely cool it, but I am wondering if my motherboard is not going to like it or not - last time I played with the settings (such as freq mult) I changed it from 100 to 101 and it would not boot, so I had to go back to defaults.

Suggestions?

TIA

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

if you went from 100, to 101 and it would not boot, id say thats is a definite tell tale sign of not a good overclocker

either the board doesnt like it or the cpu
i dont think tyan boards were all that for overclocking....but maybe i am not remembering correctly

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Just for reference, I have 20 80 mm Fans pushing through

20 fans! are you nuts? must sound like a wind tunnel in your room

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Just for reference, I have 20 80 mm Fans pushing through

20 fans! are you nuts? must sound like a wind tunnel in your room

No sh!t, where would you even put 20 80mm fans??? :Q

 

[johnlgalt]

Doh!

OK, try 2, not 20, thanks for the ribbing.

I did a lot of searching around on the web, but ne of the things that I cannot seem to find is basic bios settings to help ensure successful overclocking.

I *DID* hwever, find some really good stuff here about the P4 Pin shorting out in orer to change voltages and stuff - very nice.