Re: Overclocked My Aging Pentium 4

On Sep 2, 9:27 pm, "Kent_Diego" <N...@none.no> wrote:
> >I was tinkering around my BIOS after listening to a podcast about
> > overclocking and I found where I could Change the FSB of my CPU. It
> > was running at 2.8 ghz and the FSB Was 133. I slowly crept the FSB to
> > 144 with multiplier at 21 as any higher gave me errors in  windows .
> > My 2.8 ghz is now running at 3 ghz. Awesome.
> > But whats really amazing is my favorite online game BF2 No longer
> > Defaults to medium settings on everything but on High Settings. My
> > frame rates shot up to 10-15 extra frames per sec too.
> > My Question is then: How can A mere 200 Mhtz increase make such a big
> > difference????
> > My System Specs: Windows XP, 2 Gigs Ram, Sapphire HD3850 with 512 MB
>
> An 8% overclock is good safe amount. Increasing the FSB also overclocks t
he
> RAM frequency. That helps the P4's a lot.  Be sure to run Memtest86
> overnight just to be safe.

Yeah I will do that thanks. When I was slowly overclocking, once It
stopped booting I knew I went too far and had to take battery out and
reset jumpers.
All seems okay pretty stable as I ran Folding@Home all day and no
crashes so far. I also tweaked my ATI HD3850 USING ATI Overdrive
utility.
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