I am a total no0b to oc...but i would like to oc my 1.6ghz p4. my mother board is ASUS P4B266-LA and i think i have either 300w ps or 350, im not at home so i will have to check later...i would just like a small change in the speed as i cant afford to burn up this processor...currently, it idles at 35c and under a heavy load ive seen it reach 38c...any suggestions or help anyone can provide will be appreciated...thanks

Have you read through the Intel Overclocking forum yet?

Would will probably pick up a lot of info there to begin with.

Then come on back here if you need more help

ok...thanks

Also, i think i will post my puter specs for hell of it...

1.6ghz P4
40 gb hdd
512mb ddr pc2100 ( 2x256mb)
nvidia 32mb tnt2
ASUS P4B266-LA (mobo) and thats bout all i know...besides antec cyclone blower fan i added which works well with the 2 80mms...

Fre4k, edit your profile, (the menu on the left of the main page, My Info), add your specs to your Signature, make sure to include the Manufacturer and Model of your gear so we can help you later, and don't have to ask what you have.

Later, when you learn more, and are comfy with your rig, you can use your sig to say something "snappy"

so, in order to oc i need to raise the fsb...whatever that is...anyway, is that located in bios? cause if so i dont seem to have that option...

Thats the basis of overclocking dude. By raising your frontside bus and/or mulitplier to make your chip run at a faster clock speed

FSB= Front Side Bus. It may be listed as somthing similar to that in your BIOS

Multipiler= take that and multiply it by your FSB and you get your total clockspeed. I.E. 100 FSB * 10 multiplier = 1600MHZ

Look through the threads, cause there is a hell of a lot more too it. And ask away if you have any specific questions

Ok,
I think I might have a tidbit of advice.....
I was recently new to oc'ing......but now understand how to do it and how it works. I have a p4 2.53. for a while i had it running at 2.8...but then temps started to rise and it got unstable so i decided to put it back down to its original speed. I dont know about youre board or bios fre4k...but I have a top of line Gigabyte mobo. when i enter my bios, it has a *frequency/voltage control option. under this I enabled host/dram clock ratio to manual, and pumped up the memory frequency from it soriginal 266, threfore my gig speed went up. now i did this slowly, about 5 or so at a time, becous eyou really need to watch the stability of your system, and the heat of your cpu. with an athlon, you can directly oc the cpu multiplier, sadly this is locked on a p4, this is one of many reasons for wide-spread athlon support. If you pump it up to much, then youre system will atfirst not start...DONT FRAEK OUT (scared the hell outa me the first time) it will return to its last stable state in about 15 seconds....ocing is risky....but fun,.... HOPE I WAS OF HELP

I made a basic layout of my bios...these are all the categories and sub catgegories but i didnt include the options..exept for on a few...
~~~~~~~~~
AWARD BIOS SETUP UTITLITY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
MAIN
~~~~~*
system time:
system date:
language:
primary master:
primary slave:
secondary master:
secondary slave:
installed memory 512mb:
memory bank 0:
memory bank 1:
core version 6.0:
bios revision 3.04 02/09/02:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
advanced
~~~~~~~*
CPU type: Intel pentium 4
CPU speed: 1600mhz/400mhz
cache ram: 256kb
plug and play os:
reset configuration data:
onboard video ram:
default primary video adapter:
ps/2 mouse:
usb legacy mode support:
admin password:
user password:
local bus IDE adapter:
onboard lan:
I/O device congfig --------->*serial:
*parallel p.b.:
*parellel port mode:
*ecp dma select:
*game port:
*midi port:
**********
Hardware montor--->*cpu fan speed:
*case fan speed:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
POWER
~~~~~~~~~*
If there is a power loss should the computer stay off or restart:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
EXIT
~~~~*
exit and save changes
eixt without savings changes

I haven't played with a P4, but I think you must have more major catagories then that, most do.

And as for power loss options, I prefer it to stay off. That way a short power loss doesn't hurt something. Sometimes power will drop more then once in a very short time and your comp will try and restart each time taking another bad hit each time during boot up. That is very bad mojo

I have that option turned off also, but as far as i can tell the formentioned major categories are all i have...but ill figure it out, i hope...thanks again