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How to speed up my CPU?
Hi all,
I'm looking to speed up or get more from my CPU. Overclocking is it called? I have Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz. Isn't it possible to tweak this to 1.6 or even 1.7? I think I remember reading that the 1.5 is what the manufacturer has tested for and is the speed it says the processor will function at with no problems but, that same processor will run faster, just with no gaurantee. Anyway, do I have my facts straight and if so, will someone please give me a hand in speeding it up? Btw, the reason I'm trying to do this is, I just bought my boy a game and the minimum recommended cpu is 1.5ghz. My cpu runs at 100% while playing the game and the game does freeze sometimes during play. I shut everything else off, including my AV, Firewall and some running services. I've got plenty of memory at 1gigabyte and my card, Geforce4 Ti4600 128mb, should handle it no problem too. I've bought him the followup versions of the game for Christmas so he'll be playing it for a while, lol. If I can get the game to play smoother with no freezes, that would be great. This is all the info I have on my motherboard and cpu: ------------------------------------------ Intel (El Paso) MotherBoard - 1.5ghz part number 2515372 Intel 82845 chipset. This chipset includes: Intel® 82845 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) Intel® 82801BA I/O Controller Hub (ICH2) Intel® 82802AB BIOS Firmware Hub (FWH) Memory: Support for up to 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of memory using PC133 DIMMs AGP connector supporting 1.5-volt (V) 4X AGP cards Ultra DMA, ATA-33/66/100 support 100-megahertz (MHz) front bus speed (speed of motherboard) 400-MHz host bus speed (speed at which the I/O controller hub communicates with the processor) Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support (Power Management support) PCI local bus specification revision 2.2 Integrated Audio and 10/100 Ethernet ------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated, Mike |
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MC:
I'm looking to speed up or get more from my CPU. Overclocking is it called? I have Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz. Isn't it possible to tweak this to 1.6 or even 1.7? http://www.overclockers.com/ http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/pentium416ghzoc/ -- Mac Cool |
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"MC" wrote in message news:z_sud.639158$mD.117504@attbi_s02... Hi all, I'm looking to speed up or get more from my CPU. Overclocking is it called? I have Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz. Isn't it possible to tweak this to 1.6 or even 1.7? I think I remember reading that the 1.5 is what the manufacturer has tested for and is the speed it says the processor will function at with no problems but, that same processor will run faster, just with no gaurantee. Anyway, do I have my facts straight and if so, will someone please give me a hand in speeding it up? Btw, the reason I'm trying to do this is, I just bought my boy a game and the minimum recommended cpu is 1.5ghz. My cpu runs at 100% while playing the game and the game does freeze sometimes during play. I shut everything else off, including my AV, Firewall and some running services. I've got plenty of memory at 1gigabyte and my card, Geforce4 Ti4600 128mb, should handle it no problem too. I've bought him the followup versions of the game for Christmas so he'll be playing it for a while, lol. If I can get the game to play smoother with no freezes, that would be great. This is all the info I have on my motherboard and cpu: ------------------------------------------ Intel (El Paso) MotherBoard - 1.5ghz part number 2515372 Intel 82845 chipset. This chipset includes: Intel® 82845 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) Intel® 82801BA I/O Controller Hub (ICH2) Intel® 82802AB BIOS Firmware Hub (FWH) Memory: Support for up to 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of memory using PC133 DIMMs AGP connector supporting 1.5-volt (V) 4X AGP cards Ultra DMA, ATA-33/66/100 support 100-megahertz (MHz) front bus speed (speed of motherboard) 400-MHz host bus speed (speed at which the I/O controller hub communicates with the processor) Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support (Power Management support) PCI local bus specification revision 2.2 Integrated Audio and 10/100 Ethernet if you pay attention to temperature you could probably overclock a little but with the 100mhz FSB you may not notice any difference in performance for serious gaming you will probably need to upgrade the mobo & cpu etc |
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Not on an Intel motherboard. Intel doesn't like overclocking and doesn't
include any overclocking feature in their motherboard BIOS. I have Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz. Isn't it possible to tweak this to 1.6 or even 1.7? Intel (El Paso) MotherBoard - 1.5ghz part number 2515372 if you pay attention to temperature you could probably overclock a little but with the 100mhz FSB you may not notice any difference in performance |
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"Mac Cool" wrote in message ... MC: I'm looking to speed up or get more from my CPU. Overclocking is it called? I have Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz. Isn't it possible to tweak this to 1.6 or even 1.7? http://www.overclockers.com/ http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/pentium416ghzoc/ -- Mac Cool Thanks Mac Cool, I'll check out the URLs and post back my results. -M |
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if you pay attention to temperature you could probably overclock a little but with the 100mhz FSB you may not notice any difference in performance for serious gaming you will probably need to upgrade the mobo & cpu etc Yeah, I figure that's going to be the long term answer. 1.5's pretty slow compared to the new stuff. I'm just looking to speed it up for the kid so he can enjoy his games without me having break, the already cracking, bank. Thnaks for the reply Philo, -M |
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Not on an Intel motherboard. Intel doesn't like overclocking and doesn't
include any overclocking feature in their motherboard BIOS. Yeah, I learned that's true on Gateways too, which is what we have. Apparently they'de rather have you buy a new one, than improve the one you have and cheat them out of a sale, lol. Thanks for the input, -M Btw, I've got the box down to running only 3 system processes, 5 necessary services and, a couple of game card tweaks later, the game-time freezing is at an absolute minimum. Maybe that'll due till the upgrade is feasable. |
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In message uiRud.247233$R05.101179@attbi_s53 "MC"
wrote: Not on an Intel motherboard. Intel doesn't like overclocking and doesn't include any overclocking feature in their motherboard BIOS. Yeah, I learned that's true on Gateways too, which is what we have. Apparently they'de rather have you buy a new one, than improve the one you have and cheat them out of a sale, lol. That's half of it -- The other half is that if you overclock it and wreck your system, you'll expect them to replace it under warranty and it's hard to prove that the customer overclocked it vs something done at the factory. -- News: CIVIL SERVANT STAYS AWAKE ALL SHIFT LONG "Man, I've really got to cut back on the caffeine" he says |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:11:38 GMT, "MC"
wrote: Not on an Intel motherboard. Intel doesn't like overclocking and doesn't include any overclocking feature in their motherboard BIOS. Yeah, I learned that's true on Gateways too, which is what we have. Apparently they'de rather have you buy a new one, than improve the one you have and cheat them out of a sale, lol. Thanks for the input, Overclocking (and many other system "maladjustments) have no benefit for them, only added support costs. Gateway has often used Intel motherboards, so to a centain extent they didnt even need choose to limit overclocking as it was already done... and yet, they weren't the primary limitors, Intel was with their CPUs. On many occasions Intel CPU might be more easily o'c if they'd not locked the multipliers. Similar situation with any OEM, and just one of many reasons, many people roll their own. |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:37:08 +0100, "Mike"
wrote: i read somewhere that u can overclock an intel mobo if u weld somewhere a bridge. I must admid thats something i never dare to do. It's possible that might change the FSB speed, and for certain models of CPU and certain target o'c that might be exactly what's needed, but quite often it would also be beneficial to have the ability to adjust the multiplier, which is never possible AFAIK. |
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