Overclocking Intel D850GB

Hey, I'm new to this whole thing, but sounds interesting. I'm aware of the
dangers of overheating, but my neighbour told be that he thought the cooling
was adequate enough.
My system consists of:

An Intel D850GB Motherboard
Intel 1.4Ghz Processor
Three 80mm fans (and one for power supply and processor.... I might add that
the processor fan is the one that Intel shipped with their boxed processor)
An ATI Radeon 9600XT Video card

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB, Processor, or
Video card.
Or for that matter, if my cooling will make the cut. I might add that I
currently have the side off the computer, and my basement is cold. Intel
Active Monitor says that the Processor is at 25 Degrees Celsius (77F) And
the other regions of my board top out at 32 Celsius (90F)

Please let me know your ideas and opinions,
Thanks

I forgot to mention that I have 256Mb of PC800 Rambus Ram
"Ziferten" wrote in message
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Hey, I'm new to this whole thing, but sounds interesting. I'm aware of the
dangers of overheating, but my neighbour told be that he thought the
cooling
was adequate enough.
My system consists of:

An Intel D850GB Motherboard
Intel 1.4Ghz Processor
Three 80mm fans (and one for power supply and processor.... I might add
that
the processor fan is the one that Intel shipped with their boxed
processor)
An ATI Radeon 9600XT Video card

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB, Processor, or
Video card.
Or for that matter, if my cooling will make the cut. I might add that I
currently have the side off the computer, and my basement is cold. Intel
Active Monitor says that the Processor is at 25 Degrees Celsius (77F) And
the other regions of my board top out at 32 Celsius (90F)

Please let me know your ideas and opinions,
Thanks

Ziferten wrote:
An Intel D850GB Motherboard

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB,
Processor, or Video card.

Hi,

If you have an Intel mobo, built by Intel, you cant overclock it. Intel made
no options for that...
MAYBE with some 'softFSB' program, you'd have to locate the PLL chip on your
board for that.

But chances are not that good..

You can of course overclock the vid card, but with such a slow processor,
thats hardly worth the effort...

Thomas

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB, Processor, or
Video card.

Processor is locked, and Intel boards have fixed FSB settings; cannot be
overclocked. The Willamette P4 1.4 is a slug, PIII (non Celeron)Tualatins
routinely outperform it. Intel boards are noted for stability, but that's
about it. You need to be looking at upgrading for a performance increase.

Ok, so any recommendations on what to do next? I mean I certainly have been
looking at upgrading for a while. Intel or AMD? Im leaning towards AMD but I
dont know....
"Ziferten" wrote in message
...
Hey, I'm new to this whole thing, but sounds interesting. I'm aware of the
dangers of overheating, but my neighbour told be that he thought the
cooling
was adequate enough.
My system consists of:

An Intel D850GB Motherboard
Intel 1.4Ghz Processor
Three 80mm fans (and one for power supply and processor.... I might add
that
the processor fan is the one that Intel shipped with their boxed
processor)
An ATI Radeon 9600XT Video card

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB, Processor, or
Video card.
Or for that matter, if my cooling will make the cut. I might add that I
currently have the side off the computer, and my basement is cold. Intel
Active Monitor says that the Processor is at 25 Degrees Celsius (77F) And
the other regions of my board top out at 32 Celsius (90F)

Please let me know your ideas and opinions,
Thanks

Depends on what you do with your computer, and whether absolute best
performance is what you are after or absolute best performance increase
through overclocking is more important.

Intel CPU's are virtually immune from destruction by overheating. AMD
CPU's and motherboards are somewhat less expensive. Intel CPU's have more
total overclocking potential. Some AMD CPU's have unlocked multipliers and
thus offer two ways to raise the CPU clock frequency (change the multiplier
or change the FrontSide Bus frequency.)

Either way overclocking will be relatively expensive for you since you will
need a new CPU, motherboard, and memory (RDRAM motherboards being hard to
find, and PC800 being slow by today's standards. I do happen to have a
Pentium 4 1.6A and 640 Mbytes of PC800 memory on an aBit motherboard that
runs quite happily at 2.4 GHz, but trying for more performance out of that
particular system would not be cost effective.

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"Ziferten" wrote in message
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Ok, so any recommendations on what to do next? I mean I certainly have
been
looking at upgrading for a while. Intel or AMD? Im leaning towards AMD but
I
dont know....
"Ziferten" wrote in message
...
Hey, I'm new to this whole thing, but sounds interesting. I'm aware of
the
dangers of overheating, but my neighbour told be that he thought the
cooling
was adequate enough.
My system consists of:

An Intel D850GB Motherboard
Intel 1.4Ghz Processor
Three 80mm fans (and one for power supply and processor.... I might add
that
the processor fan is the one that Intel shipped with their boxed
processor)
An ATI Radeon 9600XT Video card

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB, Processor,
or
Video card.
Or for that matter, if my cooling will make the cut. I might add that I
currently have the side off the computer, and my basement is cold. Intel
Active Monitor says that the Processor is at 25 Degrees Celsius (77F)
And
the other regions of my board top out at 32 Celsius (90F)

Please let me know your ideas and opinions,
Thanks

Please let me know your ideas and opinions,
Thanks

My recommendation: AMD Barton 2500 and Nforce2 Dual Channel m/b (I use the
Soltek SL-75FRN2)with 2 x 512 PC3200. Decent cooler (I use Vantech
Aeroflow). This setup will easily overclock with 100% stability to XP3200
level and beyond (2200Mhz). The Barton 2500 Mobile is popular due to it's
unlocked multiplier. I run just a regular Barton 2500 at 200FSB. This will
give you great performance and is cheap too. A similar level of performance
Intel powered performance costs almost double. You should be able to do all
of this for less than $300.

Does anyone know about the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra B Board? It has lots of
features that I'd like, and sounds good, having the nVidia nForce 2 Ultra
400 Chipset. The Award BIOS is presumably tweakable. Is the Multiplier
locked on the Athlon XP 2800 Barton?
Zif
"Ziferten" wrote in message
...
Hey, I'm new to this whole thing, but sounds interesting. I'm aware of the
dangers of overheating, but my neighbour told be that he thought the
cooling
was adequate enough.
My system consists of:

An Intel D850GB Motherboard
Intel 1.4Ghz Processor
Three 80mm fans (and one for power supply and processor.... I might add
that
the processor fan is the one that Intel shipped with their boxed
processor)
An ATI Radeon 9600XT Video card

Please give me some recommendations on overclocking my FSB, Processor, or
Video card.
Or for that matter, if my cooling will make the cut. I might add that I
currently have the side off the computer, and my basement is cold. Intel
Active Monitor says that the Processor is at 25 Degrees Celsius (77F) And
the other regions of my board top out at 32 Celsius (90F)

Please let me know your ideas and opinions,
Thanks