Overclocking (Main Thread)
in Desktops ·
When you're overclocking, the motherboard is easily your most important asset.
(Think ABIT or ASUS...)👍 It’s all about having that granular control—being able to bump up the PCI, AGP, RAM, and CPU speeds independently while keeping a tight grip on the voltage.
And man, you just need to get lucky with the silicon.
I started out with a standard P4 2,4 running at 533, and I could squeeze about a 10% boost out of it before things got shaky.
But then I picked up a P4 2,66 from an IBM machine—one of those factory builds—and this thing is absolutely flying! I'm hitting over 3.2 GHz—that's a 20% jump!—and I haven't even added any extra cooling, just running the stock Intel heatsink.😉
(Think ABIT or ASUS...)👍 It’s all about having that granular control—being able to bump up the PCI, AGP, RAM, and CPU speeds independently while keeping a tight grip on the voltage.
And man, you just need to get lucky with the silicon.
I started out with a standard P4 2,4 running at 533, and I could squeeze about a 10% boost out of it before things got shaky.
But then I picked up a P4 2,66 from an IBM machine—one of those factory builds—and this thing is absolutely flying! I'm hitting over 3.2 GHz—that's a 20% jump!—and I haven't even added any extra cooling, just running the stock Intel heatsink.😉