P4 3.2c questions

[Nex321]

I was thinking and came up with that 3.2c would be best buy for me with a watercooling. Where can I buy 3.2c? And how much will I be able to overclock with watercoling on IC7 MAX7 mobo?

 

[[Matt]]

I was thinking and came up with that 3.2c would be best buy for me with a watercooling. Where can I buy 3.2c? And how much will I be able to overclock with watercoling on IC7 MAX7 mobo?

You should be able to clock to around 3.4 to 3.6 GHz depending on your how good the CPU and memory actually is.

 

[Malfunction]

Buy it at http://www.newegg.com, and since you're obviously a gamer (why would you be here otherwise?) I'd recommend buying an AMD 64 CPU. They give better performance in games.

 

[Nex321]

You should be able to clock to around 3.4 to 3.6 GHz depending on your how good the CPU and memory actually is.

Forget about memory, I should be able to overclock to atleast 3.8 Ghz

 

[Rhalle]

Google "overclock p4c 3.2" and see what you get. If I remember correctly, anything other than 2.8c is not that great of an overclocker. If memory serves, it doesn't clock much higher (if at all) than a 2.8 can go. So you'll save $.

Memory matters a bunch, and you can't just forget about it. You'll need decent name-brand 400fsb memory to do any overclocking at all, and you'll need overclocked RAM if you want to do any serious overclocking; i.e. PC 3700, PC 4000, PC 5000 RAM. (Newegg has some cheap but effective overclocked ram if you search for it; get it only if you can't afford the good stuff like Corsair/OCZ/Crucial) Invest in good ram before you even think about water cooling. Oh, and buy an OEM/whitebox processor, and with the $ you save you can get some arctic silver 5 (thermal paste) and a decent aftermarket cpu heatsink/fan combo.

The 7 max is a good board, but if it were my choice, I'd buy an ASUS p4c800e deluxe and a P4 E 2.8 (people say its inferior to the 2.8 C, but it isn't with the right mobo), and some good pc4000 ram, and I'd run that baby at 3.8g, which it can do on air cooling; 3.785g is the max that the 2.8e can run at from what I have seen; the 2.8C might do the same, but I'm pretty sure it won't. Check out www.legitreviews.com and search for an old article (from February, the second Prescott review) called "overclocking p4e prescott" and see what you get. Just my suggestions. Ebay is your friend, also.

 

[Nex321]

When will 64 bits pentiums come?

 

[Asus]

Desktop 64Bit pentiums? Who knows.
Intel doesn't want to support it but they don't want to look like they are falling behind. That's why they 'released' their 64bit Xeon CPUs. You would need a new board and memory for it anyway.

Would you really like to stay Intel? The most recent Athlon 64 core OCs pretty well on Air...err stock heatsink/fan.
A64 3000+ 2GHz to '3400+' @ 2.4Ghz for me.

 

[Nex321]

I don't really want to stay with intel its just that if I change mobo (again) and buy new proccessor I would be broke(well not really). It is expensive. I'll stick with intel for now.

What really is bad is that I heard that intel is going to release 64 versions......that should work great on workstations.....not games -.-

 

[Nex321]

I guess my 3.06 will last me a bit longer. I'll be upgrading when atleast 4 ghz comes, hope at that time it will be 64.

 

[Asus]

Intel will probably start bringing out 64bit Desktop chips around there, maybe just before maybe after.
Should be around Q2 of next year for 4GHz chips.

 

[KidRock]

Alienware is selling p4 4.0 but my best guess is that it is just a pre-overclocked 3.8 ghz

 

[Asus]

Alienware is selling p4 4.0 but my best guess is that it is just a pre-overclocked 3.8 ghz

You mean a 3.4 to 3.6GHz chip...Since there is no 3.8GHz yet either.

 

[Dead-Inside]

Hey Asus, soon we can stop with the "4000+" shit, we'll just be saying CPU GHZ (And Terrahz when the magnetics come)

 

[Subatomic]

Magnetics? wah?? Some new processor manufacturing technique?

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

I can't OC my cpu jack-shit. It restarts if I overclock it from 3.2GHz to 3.3 GHz. Overclocking has become harder on the newer CPU's. I had a p4 1.8 before, and OC'ed it to 2.5 on the standard cooler. I wish CPU's were that overclocking-friendly still..

 

[Asus]

Hey Asus, soon we can stop with the "4000+" shit, we'll just be saying CPU GHZ (And Terrahz when the magnetics come)

I bet we will be still refering to CPUs as Model numbers, not MHz/Ghz.
Whether AMD will stop with the rating system and change to a similar model numbering system as Intel is another matter.

I think it will be quite a while before that happens though because the public is still confused about MHz/GHz, what the differences are between the chips and what MHz/GHz can do for them.