So i got a new mobo and 1 gig of ram and decided to overclock the cpu, i have a p4 2.4 and it was running at 31c, i applyed some artic silver 5 to it and then overclocked it to 2.6 and is not running at 34-6c, you guys think i can overclock it a little bit more or i should stay like this? what is the "danger" cpu temp?
50 is an ideal max, but 60 will do. A p4 will throttle its speed if it gets too warm. Just check that the temperature reported is the actual temperature - motherboard sensors, and bios' aren't always 100% reliable
You could probably bump it a bit higher, but i think you might start running into glitches. Heat isn't the only concern when overclocking, there's a point where you've turned the voltage so far over the tolerance threshold that the chip starts malfunctoning (you actually start pumping enough juce into the chip to start jumping over some of the gates and short them out). You could probably push your cpu up a bit, but i would also turn up the front side bus and the memory as well, otherwise you'll stall the CPU when it's looking for data.
Also those temperatures are obviously under load.... PA is right though, if the memory and FSB aren't also clocked up, its pointless really...
tryed doing more, but it wont go, i either get a black screen with no bios or anything or it gets into bios but windows wont start, i guess 200mhz is better than nothing.
Artec Silver is not going to do a darned thing unless you have a mighty heatsink stuck on top of it. It's a paste with high thermal conductivity designed to help facilitate the flow of heat from the CPU to the attached heatsink; on it's own, Artec Silver isn't going to do you a helluva lot of good one way or another.
Artic Silver was a $6 waste, IMO. Switched back to regular thermal paste and haven't noticed a damn difference, and I have set up my temp sensors so that I get a pretty darn accurate reading. Buy an SLK947-U from ThermalRight, with a high-speed panaflo fan. Those are the main components you should invest in. The temps you should go fore are: 34-40C idle, and up to 45C under load, especially with the highend heatsink i suggested.
I meant thermal paste in general, but he mentioned Arctic Silver, so I just went with that. I'm sure one type of thermal paste is as good as another; Arctic Silver is the only one I know by name. Then again, I don't worry too much about things like that running a PIII 866! :lol:
PIII 866? Man, I found better stuff in the trash, and I mean it! (well, a P3 1ghz, doesnt differ *that* much I guess)
But this is the most tricked-out 866 you've ever seen; if you didn't know any better, you'd think it was at least a 1.5. There's something to be said for lots of RAM and a good amount of OS tweaking. That said, let me know next time you stumble across even a 1Ghz in the trash - that would make a helluva lot of difference! :lol:
