Why no comparison in benchmarks with the overclocked 3.0? It seems to me that's where the real competition is.

Picture of the mobo test setup clearly shows Corsair XMS ram. CPU-Z pic also identifies memory as Corsair 3200 ram. Yet the article gives props to OCZ PC3700 ram. What gives?

You say no Vcore adjustmens but CPU-Z shows Vcore of 1.712V. What's that? Everything above 1.6V is dangerous because of SNDS.

What does it mean you got P4 2.4C with VID of 1.55V ? Do you guys know the highest VID for this CPU is 1.525V and that 1.55V is only for frequencies higher than 2.8 GHz ?

My opinion - P4 2.4C is nothing special CPU, you only need fast and expensive memory and the results are not so great then. This article looks like payed by Intel.

Amazing, Low price - high-end system.

The 2.4C did not reach it's highest overclock. It could have gone higher but the motherboard was limiting it. I know this because the vcore adjustments did nothing to help the overclock, if it was the CPU as the limiting factor for the overclock then the vcore adjustments would have helped to increase the overclock, but they didn't. I think you should come back to this review with a mobo with better cooling and a VDD mod (or one that you know can do a higher FSB) and push this 2.4C to it's limit.

thanks for the nice and convincing review. it matches excactly with my/our experiences und meassurements with the p4 2,4c@3,3ghz on p4p800, as postet to german site www.forumbase.de during the last days. everyone who ist planing to have a new system in the near future should give above system a closer look. it is extremly good value for money.

By the by, out of curiosity.. & nessecity, can the Asus P4C800 (The 875 chipset variant) rise to this level of overclocking just the same as it's 865 variant, the Asus P4P800? Email me immediately if you have any information regarding my interests please. Much appreciated, good day peeps.

Hey yeah I thought this was a GREAT article but was planning on buying the 2.8ghz Pent 4 800mhz fsb (not the top proc. but still very close up there) I was thinking it would be SWEET if Xbitlabs.com did a reveiw on OC/ing the 2.8ghz.

~Thanks, budget, but not unlimted budget

The overclocking potential of the 2.4C Ghz processor sound great. I have an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard (I875P canterwood). Waitin to build my dream machine. Is my motherboard able to support the overclocking?

Excellent stuff. Just the info. I've been looking for. Don't you just love Intel?

After the 300A -> 450, 533 -> 850 and 1.6 -> 2.4 I'm looking for a 2 to 2.4 chip which will also give +50% o/c. It looks like the 2.4 is the one to go for.

Any info on the 2.2Celery. Is it any good as an o/c?

Thanks
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Grumps

Personally, I would have like to have seen temperature readings on the cpu considering it is an overclocking article. Also, since the P4 cpu's have that thermal protection deal built into them, it would have been nice for you to have mentioned a little bit on it's technology and how re-brush up on how overclocking affects it. Otherwise, I love this article and know now that this is probably my next CPU purchase.

thank you

Im kinda new at o/c but I was wonder how you got the RAM frequency so high
I have my FSB at 275 and my RAM is at 186 which gives me 3:2 ratio :(
I have the DRAM frequency set to AUTO in my BIOS becasue my computer wont boot at all if it set it other wise

P4 2.4c
ASUS P4C800 DLX
256x2 Kingmax PC3200

Thanks

How the heck do i set the multiple... yeas in bios you say bot its not there!

Draq

How can you say taht you did this without any Vcore increase... I see 1.712v under Voltage. And its normal is 1.5!!

I just dont get it... catch me... I dont want a dead processer!

Anybody noticed there is new P4 2.4C

Check out this link:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/list.asp?ProcFam=483

SL6Z3 with M0 stepping! What that means - if you are not lucky you might get new not overclockable CPU? CPUID String is also different - 0F25h !

Does anybody know something about that?

Great article! Read through it and gave it a try. Hit 3.3 with ocz pc4000 gold
Runs idle at 28 deg and around 40 at load with air cooling using a thermalright sp 94. No other mods except overclocked 9600 pro..... super stable. Will try for more on second run.

CPU-Z version 1.19.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical)
CPU#1 APIC ID = 0
Cpu Name Intel Pentium 4
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 5
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 3316.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 12.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 276.3 MHz
Bus Speed 1105.4 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 3316.2 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits
CPU#2 APIC ID = 1
Cpu Name Intel Pentium 4 (logical unit)

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard model 8KNXP ,
BIOS vendor Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS revision F6
BIOS release date 08/18/2003
Chipset Intel i875P rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 2
Sensor chip FFFF ?

AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfert Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 128 MBytes

Memory
RAM Type DDR-SDRAM
RAM Size 512 MBytes
RAM Frequency 221.1 MHz
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 DDR-SDRAM PC4000 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 DDR-SDRAM PC4000 - 256 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)

How to sure of stability memory ??

I don't see anything in this article. Use memtest86 or other ?? No Errors ??

fuck intel! AMD the BEST!!!

Helo! I dont know if i sholud take M0 or standart malesya CPU.
i can get Malesya 2.4, .26 and 2.8. The M0 i can get only 2.8.

I dont know, what is better to oc!

This article is pretty old and I don't think anybody would respond but I have the same system described with the Corsair memory. This all looks do-able but I don't understand what the memory devisor is (4:5 is described in the article). I'm guessing this is the main reason I can't clock the system to 3.3Ghz.
Can someone please share on this matter.