Report, edit, etc...Posted by E)s-Fury on 2006-12-05 at 14:24:09
Hi, I have a Intel® Pemtium® 4 CPU 2.40GHz processor that I've been meaning to overclock for a long time but I don't have the knoledge to do it confidently, and the sites that I have read have offered little help. Can anyone tell me how to do it? And can you tell me what how high it can be clocked is based on?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-12-05 at 15:13:06
First off, I wouldn't recommend anybody to go ahead and overclock until they know exactly how to do it.
Anyway, if your motherboard's BIOS has no overclocking options, then you're out of luck.. and if your computer is a Dell, or an HP(Or any other of those factory mades..), your BIOS doesn't support OC'ing, so you're out of luck.
Anyway, in order for you to overclock that processor, all you'd have to really do is raise the front side bus a bit in the BIOS. Raise it in very small increments every time, see if it's stable... if it's not stable, you can up the voltage on it a bit. If your RAM is capping out on you, you can set a RAM frequency/FSB divider...
But you see, an overclocker knows when to stop, or what is the limit... but without knowing your limits, you can end up ruining your CPU.
I wouldn't really recommend OCing a 2.4ghz Pentium 4 anyway.
Anyway, if your motherboard's BIOS has no overclocking options, then you're out of luck.. and if your computer is a Dell, or an HP(Or any other of those factory mades..), your BIOS doesn't support OC'ing, so you're out of luck.
Anyway, in order for you to overclock that processor, all you'd have to really do is raise the front side bus a bit in the BIOS. Raise it in very small increments every time, see if it's stable... if it's not stable, you can up the voltage on it a bit. If your RAM is capping out on you, you can set a RAM frequency/FSB divider...
But you see, an overclocker knows when to stop, or what is the limit... but without knowing your limits, you can end up ruining your CPU.
I wouldn't really recommend OCing a 2.4ghz Pentium 4 anyway.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-12-05 at 19:44:06
What if he still wants to? ENFORCE BAD IDEAS!
On startup, mash del repeatedly to enter BIOS, when you get in navigate until you get to a clock speed menu, then up the numbers in very VERY small increments until your board starts to ping uncontrollably. (Unless you don't have temperature warnings.
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On startup, mash del repeatedly to enter BIOS, when you get in navigate until you get to a clock speed menu, then up the numbers in very VERY small increments until your board starts to ping uncontrollably. (Unless you don't have temperature warnings.
)Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-12-05 at 19:52:44
I just don't want to be the one at fault for him having no CPU -_-
Not all computers use delete to enter BIOS. ~.~ And you'll never find clockspeed, to overclock your processor you'd have to either raise your FSB or multiplier(But you can't now, since they're almost always locked, except for the extreme versions of CPUs.) since clockspeed equals FSB*Multiplier.
Not all computers use delete to enter BIOS. ~.~ And you'll never find clockspeed, to overclock your processor you'd have to either raise your FSB or multiplier(But you can't now, since they're almost always locked, except for the extreme versions of CPUs.) since clockspeed equals FSB*Multiplier.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Felagund on 2006-12-05 at 20:52:16
If you can, double your FSB/multipliers and tell us what the results are. You can easily overclock way past stock speeds.
Also, if you want double the speed to your processor, flip that switch that reads "115" on the back of your power supply to "230" and tell us how that works out.
Disclaimer: Don't be an idiot.
Also, if you want double the speed to your processor, flip that switch that reads "115" on the back of your power supply to "230" and tell us how that works out.
Disclaimer: Don't be an idiot.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-12-05 at 21:14:51
lol, just if anybody didn't get that, that was a joke... 
don't go actually doing it..
don't go actually doing it..