So Whats The Best Socket 478 Mobo To Overclock With

[VOID WARRANTY]

Well the title says it all..but really i just scored on a free dell optiplex gx 270 i popped the chip out to find a pentium 4 2.66ghz sl6pe and i wouldnt mind overclocking the guts out of it...but i cant use this crappy dell motherboard i need some advice on the best motherboard to oc this chip..i googled around but im having a hard time finding good information there only seems to be two 478,s still in production...one msi and one biostar...the msi from what i read dosnt overclock at all and the biostar does but the vcore dosnt go above 1.55v which isnt enough to get a great oc from this northwood..it runs 1.55v stock and probably isnt gona go past 3ghz with out more juice

[Kiwi76]

Be careful of SNDS with Northwood.

That being said, I believe the ASUS P4P800 was the best, and if not, then it was certainly up there. There's many variants though, and I think the ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe was the best version of that board. You'll have to probably go second hand (try eBay) for any good socket 478 board though. They had plenty of P4P800s last I looked, but that was over a year ago.

Perhaps wait until someone else confirms more information, because my experience with Pentium 4 never involved overclocking outside a cheap but decent ASRock board that had no voltage control, so overclocking from 2.8GHz to 3.0GHz and barely having it stable doesn't count.

[tiro_uspsss]

equal best: Abit IC7-Max3 & Asus P4C800-E Deluxe

the bfb mobo everyone went nuts for: Asus P4P800-E

I choose the IC7-Max3 over the Asus cause its waaaaay better looking!

[w2richwood]

+2 on the p4c800 e deluxe had one for year's
Rich

[Ancient_1]

I would say the 1c7 max3. I had both the p4c800 and the max3. The p4c topped out around 293 fsb while the max3 would bench at 307 and run 24/7 at 300. Also on most benchmarks the max3 was slightly faster clock for clock. Thing is the ASUS may be found easier than the ABIT since my max died about a year ago (the p4c dies about a year before that) and I was able to find a couple p4c's but no Abit's.

[Pitbull]

I still have a 4-5yo abit ic7maxx 3 with 2.8c northy. Loved the motherboard it just refused to die, killed a power supply and gfx card while heavily overclocking but the mobo and chip survived.

[VOID WARRANTY]

yea i looked a both the asus and abit people are asking for $100 or more for used boards

[tiro_uspsss]

yea i looked a both the asus and abit people are asking for $100 or more for used boards

tells u how ol' skool good they are

[zsamz_]

equal best: Abit IC7-Max3 & Asus P4C800-E Deluxe

the bfb mobo everyone went nuts for: Asus P4P800-E

i've used the all them boards they were all killer boards but my 3 P4C800-E Deluxe boards were just amazin
would you beleive some nutjobs bid 300$+ on ebay for each of them 2 years ago

[tiro_uspsss]

i've used the all them boards they were all killer boards but my 3 P4C800-E Deluxe boards were just amazin
would you beleive some nutjobs bid 300$+ on ebay for each of them 2 years ago

yep I believe ya! - I remember looking around myself & saw the insane 'bid battles'

[VOID WARRANTY]

hey guys i just had an idea! the biostar overclocks but theres no vcore adjustment in the bios what if i did a hard mod...i never did one but the board is $60 at new egg so if killed the board it wouldnt be a big deal lol....could you reference me to spot on the web or the forum with some good info on how to do a hard mod

[JWilson]

The BIOSTAR is $43 @ http://www.ewiz.com/