OMG i'm in love :P

I just bolted my new system togther and couldn't help myself from raping my poor little virgin chip. :)

All i have top say is these northwoods are awesome, i've got my 1.8A pulling 2.4 on stock voltage with the stock HSF. I still haven't got my DDR400 i ordered yet, so i cant turn the wick up to far yet, i'll prolly just take it upto 150mhz FSB ;) 'til i my new ram arrives.

Edit: Sorry for the typo in the Subject

You're a sick dimented man. A sick sick man. ;)

Actually, a buddy of mine at work and I have been theorizing if the quality of the Northwood cores (how high they can overclock) has anything to do with the size of the fan on the Retail heatsink. Maybe you can add to our statistic.

We've noticed that not all P4-1.8A's and P4-1.6A's come with the same fan. Some come with a small fan. Some come with a much larger fan. If you've never seen the difference, trust me, you'll be able to differentiate. The small fan is the same size as the old P3-1000 fans. The big fan is quite large and thick. What we have noticed is that the processors that come with the larger fans seem to overclock much higher than the ones with the smaller fans. To alleviate the possibility that the airflow obviously made the difference, we switched the fans on two 1.6A's just to make sure. Sure enough, regardless of which fan they used, they both hit relatively the same clock as before, the one that originally came with the larger fan obviously hitting a higher clock speed. (Meaning, the fan didn't actual make a physical difference). Now, one or two experiments doesn't make a proof as you can see.

So, our theory is: Pentium4's that come with the larger fans tend to overclock more.

A trademark, perhaps? Or Intel's way of saying "This is a higher quality core", maybe? We don't know, but so far it holds relatively true, but not 100% completely.

Best of luck to ya.

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Originally posted by FaTs
I just bolted my new system togther and couldn't help myself from raping my poor little virgin chip. :)

All i have top say is these northwoods are awesome, i've got my 1.8A pulling 2.4 on stock voltage with the stock HSF. I still haven't got my DDR400 i ordered yet, so i cant turn the wick up to far yet, i'll prolly just take it upto 150mhz FSB ;) 'til i my new ram arrives.

Edit: Sorry for the typo in the Subject

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What did I tell ya? See my thread P4 [email protected] with stock volts and cooling. By the way, are you using an Asus P4S533 mobo? And tell us if you're using a Malaysian or Costa Rican P4, and all the serial#'s.

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Originally posted by KeeperMarius
Actually, a buddy of mine at work and I have been theorizing if the quality of the Northwood cores (how high they can overclock) has anything to do with the size of the fan on the Retail heatsink. Maybe you can add to our statistic.

We've noticed that not all P4-1.8A's and P4-1.6A's come with the same fan. Some come with a small fan. Some come with a much larger fan. If you've never seen the difference, trust me, you'll be able to differentiate. The small fan is the same size as the old P3-1000 fans. The big fan is quite large and thick. What we have noticed is that the processors that come with the larger fans seem to overclock much higher than the ones with the smaller fans. To alleviate the possibility that the airflow obviously made the difference, we switched the fans on two 1.6A's just to make sure. Sure enough, regardless of which fan they used, they both hit relatively the same clock as before, the one that originally came with the larger fan obviously hitting a higher clock speed. (Meaning, the fan didn't actual make a physical difference). Now, one or two experiments doesn't make a proof as you can see.

So, our theory is: Pentium4's that come with the larger fans tend to overclock more.

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Actually, my theory is that the 'larger fan' P4s are Malaysian, and the 'smaller fan' P4s are Costa Rican (or other). I just built a friend's dad a P4 1.8 Northwood as well (See thread called 'P4 [email protected] with stock volts and cooling') The processor was Malaysian, and the heatsink and fan were massively huge. Runs rock solid at 2.4GHz without making a single tweak to the voltage. Just bumped the FSB to 133 (533MHz) and Bob's your uncle. Easiest and nicest o/c I've EVER seen. Even a child can do it.

So i'm guessing it's gonna be a double 172W tec/watercooling setup again? ;) Keep the good news coming :)

So...how to get a bigger fan 1.6a? Or a plain 50/50 luck?:rolleyes:

Nice overclock.
So any real girl in your life? ;)

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Nice overclock.
So any real girl in your life? ;)

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just admit you want him cause he can overclock....its ok.

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Nice overclock.
So any real girl in your life? ;)

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lol... get a girl and try to overclock the sex... make sure you post screen shots of that one for us!!! :D

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lol... get a girl and try to overclock the sex... make sure you post screen shots of that one for us!!! :D

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lol. :)

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lol... get a girl and try to overclock the sex... make sure you post screen shots of that one for us!!! :D

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Egads that was inappropriate.

FaTs, awesome dude :cool: I will await 3Ghz+ ;)

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Egads that was inappropriate.

FaTs, awesome dude :cool: I will await 3Ghz+ ;)

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I was just joking... :cool:

Nice overclock! :cool:

Have fun with your girl. Can't you find a real girl? :p

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I was just joking... :cool:

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So? It was inappropriate whether you were joking or not. I don't want to post anymore on that subject because this is his thread and I won't screw it up.