best oc'ing intel board for p4 2.4 northwood

[Xwinged_demonX]

I am getting a p4 2.6 as my next chip and i plan to overclock the hel out of it. I used to be a devoted amd user and am new to intel boards. what is the best overclocking board for the 2.6 nothwood. I heard good things about abit,soyo,msi,and epox. Which is better and which models are the best. Money is new I factor, i can work overtime to afford it. Thanx

[CSHawkeye81]

look at sig man.

[deerslayer]

BD7 and BD7 II are both great overclocking boards. As far as pushing the cpu to the max I think unless you get a bad one the board will go farther then the cpu will.

[CSHawkeye81]

enjoy whatever you get man.

[rlemieux]

If DDR go with what is listed, if you want Rambus, the Abit T7II is the way to go.

[macci]

ASUS P4T533 w/ 512MB 32bit RIMM4200 is the way to go It will leave everything else in the dust
TH7-2 sucks azz when it comes to CPU overclocking.

[rlemieux]

How does it suck???? I have had my 1.8 up to 2.5+ very stable. Right now I am running at 2.4 and at 4x on the memory, how in the world does that suck?

[Leo]

Well macci is just one of them nutty guys running everything at levels most of us can only hope for heh. The TH7II does generally limit your CPU overclock though. I believe it was JC that had trouble getting a TH7II to take a NW@3.2 into Windows with any sort of stability while his IT7 easily ran the chip at 3.3

If you want a board for OCing a P4 to its limits right now, it seems many are having great success with ABit DDR boards. You could also go the Turbo-PLL route if you really want to use RDRAM but I think it'd just be easiest waiting for the P4T533 .

[rlemieux]

Yes, buts its a RDRam platform, its never going to overclock as high as DDR, not because of the board but because of the ram. But I gaurantee Ill benchmark better at 2.4 and 4x than anyone running 2.4 on DDR. You cant say a board sucks just because of the platform its running.

Go to www.overclockers.com and look at their CPU database.
The TH7-II holds the following

Top 4 overclocks running the 1.8A
Top overclock running the 2.0A
Top two overclocks running a 2.26B

So again, how can you say this board sucks?

[Leo]

Of course DDR systems will be slower compared to RDRAM systems at the same clock speed. The whole point of DDR is to out-overclock RDRAM CPU wise to achieve better results. This is why you see OPPAINTER holding the #3 3DMark spot above all the RDRAM systems with his "lowly" DDR.

Why limit yourself to DDR though? Macci is using RDRAM not DDR, the TH7II sucks in his view because he has a P4T-E board with a Turbo-PLL to get around its low FSB capabilities. With the hardware he's packing, a TH7II sucks comparitively .

Besides, I'm just the messenger. Don't kill me heh.

[OPPAINTER]

How's my 2.26, I use a IT7

[calantak]

what voltage are you using on that one?
i'm totally bottlenecked due to the ram... this corsair 3000 is bad!

[calantak]

Originally posted by rlemieux
How does it suck???? I have had my 1.8 up to 2.5+ very stable. Right now I am running at 2.4 and at 4x on the memory, how in the world does that suck?

2.4 is not really an accomplishment nowadays...
I have the same problem... the abit th7-II has nice mempower but it limits your cpu...
I ran my 2.26 @ 3250 with the bd7-II and it stopped 70 mhz lower with the th7-II.

when will we be having a ASUS P4T533 that can go higher on the fsb without extreme modding?