P4 overclocking - how do you do it?

**saturnotaku** · 08-14-02, 10:08 PM

It seems as if Intel is having a renaissance among the hardcore computer crowd. The ways people are taking their Northwood P4 processors to insanely high speeds really hearkens back to the old Celeron 300A days.

I've been thinking about joining in on these happy, highly zealous overclocking times. I want to know if overclocking a Pentium 4 Northwood is as easy as changing FSB and (possibly) voltage settings.

When you get a P4, does it automatically default to a 100 MHz FSB and you can tweak it from there? Or does it go to 133 by default and you have to change it?

Can someone elaborate or point me to a web site where this kind of stuff is explained?

darkmiasma · 08-15-02, 08:52 AM

just pop it into the motherboard and change the FSB and voltage in the bios ... piece of cake ...

check out my sig ... its all air cooling

08-14-02, 10:08 PM	#1
saturnotaku Apple user. Deal with it. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The 'burbs, IL USA Posts: 12,502	P4 overclocking - how do you do it? It seems as if Intel is having a renaissance among the hardcore computer crowd. The ways people are taking their Northwood P4 processors to insanely high speeds really hearkens back to the old Celeron 300A days. I've been thinking about joining in on these happy, highly zealous overclocking times. I want to know if overclocking a Pentium 4 Northwood is as easy as changing FSB and (possibly) voltage settings. When you get a P4, does it automatically default to a 100 MHz FSB and you can tweak it from there? Or does it go to 133 by default and you have to change it? Can someone elaborate or point me to a web site where this kind of stuff is explained?

08-15-02, 08:52 AM	#2
darkmiasma ... Meh ... Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 174	just pop it into the motherboard and change the FSB and voltage in the bios ... piece of cake ... check out my sig ... its all air cooling __________________ MCSE, MCSA, MCP, A+, Net+, Security+ --------------------------------------------- CPU - [ AMD Athlon X2 4200+] Motherboard - [ Asus A8N-SLI Premium] RAM - [ 2GB Crucial DDR400] Videocard - [ eVGA GeForce 7900GT KO (256MB)] Hard Drives - [ (2x) 80.0 GB WD SATA-II ] [(2x) 300.0 GB WD SATA-II] Burner - [ 16x DVD-R/RW - 48x CD-R/RW (Lite-On) ] Soundcard - [ Soundblaster Audigy 2 ] PSU - [ Antec TruePower II 550W] Case - [ Lian-Li PC61 (Plexi window, Blue SA CC Tube) ] Monitor - [ Dell FP2005 (20" Widescreen Flat Panel) ]

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