Name your favourite P4....

Iridium

For OC'ing. I am sure to draw a couple of "None of them" in this thread..

When I bought the P4 2.4B I have now, I was limited by the FSB speed of my old mobo. I have since replaced that mobo with one that can accommodate the 800 MHz FSB and have thought about getting a little faster processor. When I decided to purchase the 2.4B eveyone said that the it was a great little OC'er. Only thing is, it's a 533MHz and not and 800MHz. Soooo tell me what you are thinking...and I am not wanting to spend 500 bucks on one either.

drakesteakn

the 2.8 or 3.2 P4s are nice OC'ers. i'm not much of a Intel fan but i'm sure they are good

riles9262

The 2.4c was a good one for oc'ing.

Zardon

Any gallatin core.

EDIT: just saw you are asking to get one for overclocking and under 500.... so ignore that above.

Personally id pick up a 2.8 or 3.0 P4 Northwood and overclock the hell out of it. well within your budget and much lower temps than any of the E's (prescotts).

Asmoday

agreed! i used to have a 3.0c an got it very high....on water i got it to 3.9ghz, and on the prommie i squeezed 4.35ghz out of it... (only for a short while, before it died )

Nacht

the 2.4c's are great...thats what i have. i bought it used off of a friend and have been running it at 1000fsb/3.0 ghz without a hitch. it even had a couple of bent pins when it arrived, nothing some tweezers couldnt fix!

Zardon

the 2.4c's are great, very good value too, only problem is for a little more outlay you are almost certainly guaranteed with a 3.0c an overclock of at least 600mhz with decent air cooling, very few 2.4s will hit 3.6ghz unless you have some seriously high end vapo cooling and then you would already want a 3.2 or 3.4 to get it past 4 ghz without too much effort. I guess we should go into stepping information in this thread, but Im not sure if thats overboard for the thread starter.

pr0digal jenius

definately a northwood core, and I'd also say it depends on what northbbridge you have. WHat mainboard are you using for this project? If it is a 875p board...you can probably overclock the chip untill it catches fire

Iridium

Check the sig for system specs, however not sure how dated those benchies are. I am planning on cleaning and re-benching tomorrow so they should be updated mid-afternoon. Stepping info would be great, the more info the better when I purchased my 2.4B (limited FSB with my old MOBO) they even told me where the one I bought should have been made at. I used to frequent these boards often a yr or so back, since then I have kind of fallen off but thanks to a new job $$ I am trying to get back into the game. I have pretty good air cooling on it, and I am not ready to make the jump to liquid cooling yet.

Iridium

I didn't forget about this thread, I would be greatly appreciative if you all could through me some stepping info and specifics on the CPU's. Prescott/Northwood/0.13 0.09 micron/3.0C 3.0E/cache levels... yikes!

Danhill

But if you have poor mem and stock cooler you won't make it too far I belive, just look at me.

Iridium

An SLK-900U used to be one of the top of the line full copper P4 heatsinks, that I have paired with a 120mm fan. At this point in time, i never get over 46C under full load. I have a Vantec tornado if I ever have to break that beast out to cool down whatever I get.
My ram on the other hand, yes it will need to be changed out too. But now that I have the actual power for these pieces to run off of, I am thinking a new proc with hyperthreading first and then memory in another couple of weeks.

MiDKnYtE

The 2.8 or 3.0 would be the best bang for the buck now. It has a low enough multiplier that you can crank the FSB. I got a 3.2, and it tops out at around 3.8 (237fsb).