Tl;dr I have a 2.4ghz P4C I want to get over 3.2ghz. Thermals are super cool 44°C. 3.18ghz current. 1.575v.
So… long story short, I was digging around in some old parts and found my original Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra video card and two sticks of Hyper X ram from the early 2000's.
I just got an itch to make a retro(vintage?)-modern fusion. So to eBay I went for a couple weeks to track down parts. It is now fully functional and posting, I just need to instal a hard drive with Windows XP.
Relevant parts:
2.4ghz Northwood P4C (Malay manufacture).
ABIT IC7-MAX3 motherboard (socket 478).
Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra.
2x Kingston Hyper X 3200 (matching).
Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
Zalman CNPS7500 AlCu cooler.
Coolermaster 650w PS.
PLENTY of modern cooling to keep the rig ice cold on air.
Here is the thing. I found a great deal on THREE 2.4ghz P4C chips with the Malaysian plant stamped. I remember these being monsters back when I was a kid building this rig. Only difference now is better cooling and I was using an ASUS P4C800 motherboard instead of this ABIT board. If memory serves me right, I could hit 3.2ghz stable-ish on a stock intel cooler.
Right now, I have test fit each of the 3 chips. I chose the one that seemed to be a little more stable at a little cooler temp.
ALL 3 chips seemed to hit a hard wall at 3.2ghz (267 FSB x12) just posting. Not benchmarking. Seems a bit odd to me not one of them ran away with the show and just stopped there.
Screenshots of the bios are posted.
Shouldn't I be able to at least thermal throttle with modern cooling (not even close to a thermal throttle)?
So, who has any advice here for me? It has been a lonnnnngggg time since I have overclocked one of these. I was under the assumption the ABIT board used to be king for overclocks.