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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.
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.
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. :)
In old computers like that, the IDE HDD is usually the bottleneck.
Most of those prebuilts have locked Bios for the CPU and Ram.
You can see the info but can't change it.
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