overclocking

[Petehicklin]

yeah, i have a P4 HT 3.6Ghz processor, and i was wondering what i could theraretically overclock it to. and also whats the fastest, overclocked processer you've heard of

[dj4uk]

Take a look here - http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031230/5ghz-01.html .

DJ

[WilliamRobinson]

Sorry that must be old...theres an 8.4Ghz out there its cooled with liquid nitrogen ill look for the site and post it if i find it again..it has pictures

[Petehicklin]

yeah, but on a bugget of like hmmmm nothin/ new cooling system, what could i overclock mine too?

[dglienna]

Have you looked at overclockers.com ?

[Petehicklin]

hahaha, hard drive cooling, what the hell for??? thats just stupid unless your cpu is right next your hdd

[StevenHickerson]

Hrmm, I havn't read up on it in a while but last time I did I was under the impression you couldn't overclock p4s much at all. Something about the chip FSB being hard locked at a specific top end speed on the chip itself so without modding the chip you couldn't bypass it and overclock it via software.

AMDs on the other hand you can get fully unlocked if you get the right chip make and model. Thats why most overclockers love AMDs, and also the reason I use an AMD. I've got an AMD mobile 2600 thats suppose to be a 2.0ghz chip overclocked to 2.5ghz only on air cooling and I'm still only hitting 48 degrees celcius under full load. If I was to put water cooling on it I could easily top 2.8. I know this dosnt sound impressive when you already have a 3.6 but it's a nice upgrade for that chip :)

Oh and about the hard drive cooling. It's actually very smart. Your cpu temperature is directly effected by your case temp. If you dont pull all the heat out the case efficiently your gonna get higher cpu temps. So pulling the heat off the hd and out faster than if you didn't cool the hd will drop you a couple degrees on the cpu itself.