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Windows 7: Overclocking a old PC.
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03 Oct 2010
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#1 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. India |
Overclocking a old PC.
How can i Overclock a pentium 4 1.6 Ghz (Code Name Willamette).
Award Phenoix BIOS v6.0 PG.
Plz any help will be appreciated.
P.S. its my Mom's PC. Please guide me through a stable overclock. | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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03 Oct 2010
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#2 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04 Pembroke |
You'll probably want to provide more information such as the motherboard model, CPU model, etc.
On top of that, despite the CPU being slow to begin with why the need for an overclock? Chances are the computer is bottlenecked by something else such as the RAM.  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom | Whitebox
OS Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
CPU Intel E6750 @ 3.80GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (Revision 1.1)
Memory 2x2GB & 2x1GB (6GB) OCZ Reaper 1066MHz @ 1080MHz
Graphics Card EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb (216 Core) FTW Edition
Sound Card Realtek ALC888
Monitor(s) Displays 21" VIZIO TV
Screen Resolution 1680x1050 @ 60Hz
Keyboard Logitech Wireless S520
Mouse Logitech Wireless S520 - Microsoft Wireless Arc Mouse
PSU Corsair 750W
Case NZXT Nemesis Elite
Cooling Thermaltake SpinQ
Hard Drives Western Digital WD6401AALS - 640GB
Hitachi HDP725016GLA380 - 160GB
Internet Speed Download: 20mbps, Upload: 3mbps
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03 Oct 2010
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#3 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. India |
Quote: Originally Posted by DarkNovaGamer  You'll probably want to provide more information such as the motherboard model, CPU model, etc.
On top of that, despite the CPU being slow to begin with why the need for an overclock? Chances are the computer is bottlenecked by something else such as the RAM. Just about to dump the crap. so need to make use of it.  
Plz ask for any details you need. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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03 Oct 2010
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#4 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04 Pembroke |
Quote: Originally Posted by youllbelost
Quote: Originally Posted by DarkNovaGamer You'll probably want to provide more information such as the motherboard model, CPU model, etc.
On top of that, despite the CPU being slow to begin with why the need for an overclock? Chances are the computer is bottlenecked by something else such as the RAM. Just about to dump the crap. so need to make use of it.
Plz ask for any details you need. Can you provide me with the other system specs such as the amount of RAM, speed of it, what graphics its using, etc?
Like I said, depending on the system specs overclocking the CPU may not make much of a difference if lets say your RAM is whats bottlenecking the PC. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom | Whitebox
OS Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
CPU Intel E6750 @ 3.80GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (Revision 1.1)
Memory 2x2GB & 2x1GB (6GB) OCZ Reaper 1066MHz @ 1080MHz
Graphics Card EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb (216 Core) FTW Edition
Sound Card Realtek ALC888
Monitor(s) Displays 21" VIZIO TV
Screen Resolution 1680x1050 @ 60Hz
Keyboard Logitech Wireless S520
Mouse Logitech Wireless S520 - Microsoft Wireless Arc Mouse
PSU Corsair 750W
Case NZXT Nemesis Elite
Cooling Thermaltake SpinQ
Hard Drives Western Digital WD6401AALS - 640GB
Hitachi HDP725016GLA380 - 160GB
Internet Speed Download: 20mbps, Upload: 3mbps
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03 Oct 2010
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#5 | |
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In old computers like that, the IDE HDD is usually the bottleneck. | | My System Specs | | |
03 Oct 2010
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#6 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04 Pembroke |
Quote: Originally Posted by madtownidiot In old computers like that, the IDE HDD is usually the bottleneck. Depends on the speed/cache on that Hard Drive as well. I suspect RAM here as most older computers tend to have DDR RAM or DDR2 667 which won't receive that much of a boost from an overclock. Especially if you are also lacking in the amount of RAM. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom | Whitebox
OS Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
CPU Intel E6750 @ 3.80GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (Revision 1.1)
Memory 2x2GB & 2x1GB (6GB) OCZ Reaper 1066MHz @ 1080MHz
Graphics Card EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb (216 Core) FTW Edition
Sound Card Realtek ALC888
Monitor(s) Displays 21" VIZIO TV
Screen Resolution 1680x1050 @ 60Hz
Keyboard Logitech Wireless S520
Mouse Logitech Wireless S520 - Microsoft Wireless Arc Mouse
PSU Corsair 750W
Case NZXT Nemesis Elite
Cooling Thermaltake SpinQ
Hard Drives Western Digital WD6401AALS - 640GB
Hitachi HDP725016GLA380 - 160GB
Internet Speed Download: 20mbps, Upload: 3mbps
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03 Oct 2010
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#7 | |
Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit Grafton,IL |
Most of those prebuilts have locked Bios for the CPU and Ram.
You can see the info but can't change it. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Hopalong/ Godzilla
OS Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
CPU Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core
Motherboard ASUS P7P55D-E PRO
Memory 8GB@1400MHz Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 4x2GB
Graphics Card ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU/2DI/1GD5 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
Sound Card VIA Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays Asus VS248H-P 24"; Samsung SyncMaster 941BW 19"ws
Screen Resolution 1920x1080; 1440x900
Keyboard Logitech K-320
Mouse Kensington
PSU COOLER MASTER Silent Pro RS850-AMBAJ3-US 850W Modular
Case COOLER MASTER HAF 932 RC-932-KKN5-GP Black
Cooling Scythe "Mugen-2 Rev.B" (2 ScytheKaze-Jyuni PWM fans)
Hard Drives Samsung 830 120GB SSD
Intel 320 120GB SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Antivirus Avast Inernet Suite
Browser IE 9 ; Chrome
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03 Oct 2010
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#8 | |
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The willamette series of cpus got their start in 2000. The 1.6GHz P4 was released in july 2001. Most systems from that era were throttled by the typical HDD.. which had a maximum transfer rate of about 8 MB/s. I would be surprised if it even had DDR.. which didn't exist until 2004 | | My System Specs | | |
03 Oct 2010
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#9 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. India |
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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03 Oct 2010
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#10 | |
Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16. India |
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD _(Assembled)_
OS Dual Booting Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate Edition and Fedora 16.
CPU AMD Phenom X4 925
Motherboard MSI 785g-E53
Memory 4gb DDR3 G.skill RipJaws
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6770
Sound Card Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Dell IN2020M LED
Screen Resolution 1600*900 20"
Keyboard Logitech K100
Mouse Razor Death Adder v2 3500 dPi (Razer Goliathus Pad)
PSU Cooler Master
Case Cooler Master
Cooling Cooler Master
Hard Drives Seagate 500 Gibs
External 320 Gb Western Digital(Got Glitchy)
Internet Speed Back to college Internet with Cyberroam X|
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