ASSROCK Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 I work at a computer store and I was givin a Intel white box. At first I wasnt sure what I had in my hands, there was the normal intel sticker with SN on it and i looked it up and couldnt find anything about the kind of SN. So i open the box up and looked to what the chip said on it. Intel Confidential, That what it said, so with that in mind I was thinking it was maybe just maybe it was a Unlocked or even a Prescott. So I looked at the numbers on the CPU and found on the web that this inturn was a "Prescott". So I took a P4P800 from work and slaped it in the 3.2E and then some samsung pc3200 512 and then put the stock heat sink on and then tried to post and just as i thought no post. Then i knew for sure that this was a real Prescott or maybe even a extreme edition because it wont post on a 865 chipset. So went to asus and downloaded the bois upgrade to emulate the 875 chipset and it booted fine after that. I got into the bios, the first thing that was interested in was the multi. , it let me go backwards to so i can emulate the 2.8E and 3.0E. But couldnt go up any higher the 16. Now messing with the FSB was the fun part HAHA. Using manual overclocking not PAT (AI overclocking). Going higher with the FSB and raiseing up the Vcore wont post even going to 3.2 so i was messing with the vcore for a about 15 mins then i have a wilded idea and take the vcore down and then i went to go look at the intel site to check the standed vcore for the prescott's. and ya i didnt know that was at 1.57 i think it was at or 1.53 cant think of it off hand. so the lower the vcore and the more i moved the memory bus around the got it as high as 3.8 and then the bios started to go slow then clocked it at a 4.09 and then the bios complety locked up and the northbridge was so hot as goes everthing surrounding the cpu. I did all this about 2 weeks ago and i am going to be doing some more new test in a new tower with after market cooling maybe ever watercooling. After doing all of this i think the best idea is not to get a prescott , because i have a 3.0C clocked at 3.6 and stable in Windows i dont think that the Prescott can handle this at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 Yea the prescott, really blows because of the longer pipelines (I don't know why they released them with such a low MHZ) The socket Tejas are supposed to be better, and will supposedly O/C much higher....but who knows when they will release those... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASSROCK Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 Ya did you see the Tejas socks LOL this is going to be a joke people are so going to break those pins on the motherboard LOL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arauthator Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 Lucky Dog! I'd love to get my hands on one of those to just play around with. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 LGA775 is supposed to be released in Q2 this year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 Yeah, but we know how reliable the expected release dates for computer stuff are. (*cough* half-life 2 *cough*) I've learned to not even bother listening to expected release dates. And I'm with AYoKoNA on the whole thing...I think Intel really made a big mistake releasing prescott at such slow speeds. They should have waited until they could get at least maybe 3.8ghz, or for the socket-T launch, or something. Northwood is still performing extremely well...there was no need to rush the launch of prescott. They've given us a bad first impression of prescott, so even if the later revisions are very good chips, they've already turned a lot of people away. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme21 Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 Well AMD seems to be on time with its launches this year.. But seriously pushing things back 6 months is no a good way to do buisness.. And im reading these articles about certain companys not realeaseing the new stuff uuntil the market demands it.. Ummm, hello i demand it and so does everyone else.. i hope im making sense.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquiesce Posted March 9, 2004 Posted March 9, 2004 (edited) Theres an awful lot of cussing the Prescotts I think its al down to personal experience Ibought a 2.8 a few weeks back and its been fine I have had it running at 3.74 but it wasnt 100% stable almost though anyway brought it down a wee bit and now its running @ 3.5 on a 250 FSB nice and stable only thing is temps are still low enough to really go for it -19 on the evaporator and MBM5 reports 9 degrees on chip so id like to go more however anything over 260FSB it starts to get unstable. Any ideas fellas? I got the mem divider running 5:4 so my memory is running @ exactly 400Mhz with a the FSB i have but its PC3700 so that means 466 right, also I have a quick qwuestion would I be best selling my stick of Corsair Ram and getting a TwinX/OCZ Gold dual pack of 256X2 similar spec or would I be simply better buying another stick of 512 Corsair XMS PC3700 and running that in dual mode as I hear a lot of pros saying that anything over 512 is overkill? apart from big photoshop jobs etc etc ?? Thanks Edited March 9, 2004 by aquiesce Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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