Hello everybody, I have an old Pentium 4 processor that runs at 2000MHz, I learned that it had a maximum speed of 3000MHz, I would like to know what we mean by speed and how much up to fast you can overclock without undue risk.
thank you in advance
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Hello everybody, I have an old Pentium 4 processor that runs at 2000MHz, I learned that it had a maximum speed of 3000MHz, I would like to know what we mean by speed and how much up to fast you can overclock without undue risk.
thank you in advance
Well, for this processor, the value of 3GHz I think is a calculation of the software is from a database or from a max FSB or coefficient max ...
But anyway, to 2GHz, it surprise me that you are thinking of overclocking to 3GHz, but I think it goes further than 2.4 or 2.5, and that you increase the voltage.
A processor is very strong, Intel processor can stand upto temperatures close to 80 ° C sometimes (although it is not advisable huh! ).
In order not to toast the processor, If you mount your FSB as a geek, you have two reactions at the worst possible:
- No boot, Clear CMOS the CM.
- reset immediately.
when the FSB is very / too high it can heat your chipset (motherboard), but the chipsets are resistant, but in any case it will burn not the processor, unless it is really very poorly ventilated and abnormally hot, but that it could probably crash, and most motherboards have the protections that cut the power supply in case of overheating.
The thermal paste to affect the temperature, thus the stability of the processor
A change of a paste could result may win against significant degree, it can make you earn only 1 or 2 degrees ° C but it can also save 5 or 7 ° C, after that will also depend on the cooling system that is over.