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Sweeper · November 8th, 2008, 06:24 PM

I might go with the 3.2GHz Northwood for $58.00. That would put it at where it is now but it wouldn't be OC'd and everything would be running stock. Right now I'm at 267MHz from 200MHz to get the CPU at 3.2GHz.

SoloCamo · November 8th, 2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweeper

I might go with the 3.2GHz Northwood for $58.00. That would put it at where it is now but it wouldn't be OC'd and everything would be running stock. Right now I'm at 267MHz from 200MHz to get the CPU at 3.2GHz.

You know, your performance will take a hit though? P4's love bandwidth and the higher FSB you are running is giving it a lot more than a stock 3.2ghz would have available.

Sweeper · November 8th, 2008, 07:44 PM

So it's better to OC a system than to run a CPU @ stock settings? I was just thinking running at 3.2GHz stock with the FSB @ 200 the system and motherboard wouldn't be under to much stress. Am I really putting ANY stress worth worrying about running the FSB @ 267MHz?

SoloCamo · November 8th, 2008, 07:56 PM

With your temperatures, I wouldn't believe so. It's usually heat that kills systems that are overclocked, not the fact that they are overclocked.

A cpu running @ 3.2ghz w/ a FSB of 267mhz will always outperform a 3.2ghz w/ a FSB of 200mhz, as long as it's stable. There are other factors, such as ram timing, but with that high of a FSB and the fact that timing plays a very mild role in the performance of P4's it is definitely the case here that the 267mhz FSB system will have a good sized gap in performance.

Effectively, you are comparing a 3.2ghz p4 w/ 800hmz FSB vs a 3.2ghz p4 w/ 1068mhz FSB

Sweeper · November 8th, 2008, 09:11 PM

As it is right now the CPU is @ 3.2GHz with a FSB of 267MHz.. The Ram was underclocked to 333MHz to allow the large FSB increase. With the ram set to 333MHz and the FSB increased it set the ram to 426MHz instead of 400MHz. It's also running in dual channel. Temps stay very stable between 35c-44c . The case is a Thermaltake XaserII with 4 80mm fans. Two fans in the front, 1 on the side and 1 in the back. It also has an Enermax 460w PSU with a 90mm fan in the bottom pulling air up and out the back of the PSU. The CPU is cooled with a Zalman HSF. The video card 'Radeon X800GTO 256MB' uses the stock HSF that came on it. It also has been flashed to allow all 16 pipes to be open and operative. So far there has been no stability problems at all with it. It runs as if it is a stock system. So I guess I will just keep what I have and hope I'm not pushing it with time on the OC of the CPU.

sweeper2 · November 9th, 2008, 09:37 AM

i would keep it unless you plan on getting a new setup... like others have mentioned ... my socket 939 system running a dual core cpu and PCI-E vid card .. even though i run at 2.4ghz . i still own your system .... and i didn't pay much for my motherboard/cpu/vid card.. i kept the standard DDR memory i had.. and everything else...

Sweeper · November 9th, 2008, 12:27 PM

I understand that I can purchase a new MB/CPU/GPU but I don't want to go through all of that. Esp. when there is nothing wrong with what I have now. My main concern was having this 2.4C @ 3.2GHz for 2-3yrs straight now. I don't want to underclock the CPU back to 2.4GHz ... BLAH! I was just making sure that pushing the CPU/FSB for this many years wasn't the cause of the failure of the old MB (MSI 865PE NEO2 LS). The SB Burnt a hole in itself and the MB died. Kinda weird.... you would have figured it to be the NB that burnt up. Oh well...