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[wbmw]

Elmer, Re: I recently bought an Intel 2.4GHz P4 and it has very little overclockability, I was unlucky. I would think 2.4GHz is very near the bottom of the speed distribution, if not below it.

You bought the 533MHz FSB version, did you not? It's quite possible that your part could have been left over from B-Stepping inventory. The 2.4C GHz Pentium 4 chips tend to have a lot of headroom, given that they are based on a much newer stepping.

[drjohn]

Maybe it's the cheap memory I bought?

its definetly the cheap memory ! Even a 533 b steping will
get you close to 3 GHZ with a v0ltage increase to 1.7v. Most
good quality memory comes with heat spreaders (some new
exotic memory form geil does not have heat spreaders. My 2.4c
intially would only go to 3.0 Ghz, I deciede to take out the
corsair ddr 400 and try kingston hyperX, hello 3.3 Ghz and
voltage set at 1.65 v. Yes I known increasing the voltage
cab be deadly, I will be happy if it survives untill prescott
comes out.