VapoChill + Pentium 4 = 800Mhz??

Tom's Hardware has a fun little article up about their quest to reach 800Mhz FSB using a Pentium 4 2.26Ghz and an Asus P4G8X (Granite Bay) motherboard.
"While our benchmarks should be familiar to you, the results require a little explanation. For starters, we weren't able to reach our goal of stable 800 MHz FSB. The system stopped being more or less stable after 750 MHz. With patience and some crashes in between, we also achieved the performance level at 800 MHz FSB. "
In the cases of extreme overclocking you need a variety of things to be successful. Of those you need a motherboard with the AGP and PCI clocks locked thus removing any out of frequency problems with your expansion cards, and some really good cooling. For the past few months I've had a VapoChill system here in the Ninjalane Labs and recently had a chance to fire it up with a shiny new Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (533Mhz) processor. Core temps remained pretty constant at -10C but the lack of a locked AGP and PCI bus kept overclocking to a minimum yielding only a 400Mhz gain (easily attainable with aircooling).

More on that later.

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