Can I overclock my 2.4 P4 Pro with my Intel D865GBF motherboard?How and how much?

Question

Also can I o'clock my integrated graphics of 266MHz to 333MHz without any problems from the bios?

Answer 1

ah there correct but 10% us okay to overclock maximum is about 20%... but i warn you if you overclock your cpu or your comptuer warranty will be cut off and it wont exist anymore for you.... here i can give you all the info. you need hold on....




PC Hardware: Free Speed: Overclocking Your PC
Performance Boosting Basics
Want a free speed boost for your computer? Try a little overclocking--an enthusiast trick that PC tweakers have been using for years to get free speed out of their systems. Many of today's CPUs can run faster than they're rated to do, and getting that added performance is simply a matter of carefully changing some settings. Overclocking won't turn an ancient PC into a powerhouse, but it can help you squeeze every drop of performance out of your machine.
Two variables set the speed at which your CPU runs: the system bus speed, and the CPU's clock multiplier. To determine the CPU's actual operating speed, those two values are multiplied together. For instance, a bus speed of 100 MHz and a multiplier value of 5.5 translate to a CPU running speed of 550 MHz. This simple formula works with most Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 chips, as well as with AMD chips.
Some motherboard and CPU combinations let you change one or both of those variables, setting a new speed for the CPU. Boost either setting and you're officially overclocking. In my experience, most CPUs and motherboards will run fine when overclocked 10 to 20 percent faster than the rated CPU speed. The bus speed setting may also affect the speed of the PCI or AGP bus, depending on which chip set the motherboard uses and how that chip set connects to all of the subsystems on the board.
The trick to overclocking is in knowing when to stop. Crank up the speed completely beyond the operating limits of the CPU, system bus, or RAM, and the PC will crash or freeze a lot. If you've set the clock too high on a system that holds the clock settings in BIOS, it may fail to boot, and you'll have to use the PC Setup program to reset the clock settings stored in CMOS RAM. (In some cases, you may have to reset the CMOS RAM more directly: Either remove the CMOS memory retention battery, typically a button-style cell, or move a jumper on the system board; that jumper is often marked 'clear CMOS'.) If your PC uses switches or jumpers to set clock and multiplier values, you'll simply need to reset them to a slower speed.

CPU Overclocking the Easy Way
The PC Setup program screen in Figure 1 is from an Abit KA7 motherboard that offers lots of overclocking controls when the CPU Operating Speed is set to 'User Define'. The CPU FSB/PCI Clock setting also affects the speed of the PCI bus. I have found that most PCI cards will overclock about as well as the average CPU does.
Overclocking the AMD Athlon XP+ 2600 processor on my ECS KT-600A motherboard involves just one setting. The multiplier in the Athlon XP+ 2600 processor is fixed at 11.5, allowing a CPU speed range between 1910 MHz (166 x 11.5) and 2288 MHz (199 x11.5). The Athlon XP+ 2600 runs at 1900 MHz typically, but the chip I tested worked well when overclocked to 2200 MHz.
CPU Overclocking by the Bits
Before designers made CPU speed settings changeable via software, switches or jumpers on the motherboard controlled the speed. You'll find this arrangement typical of early (3 to 4 years old or older) AMD, Pentium I and II, and Celeron boards. Over clocking with switches and jumpers works in the same way as using settings in PC Setup: You simply increment the multiplier and bus speed settings to speed up the processor until you find a reliable running speed.
The CPU clock speed setting also affects the AGP bus speed on this board. Other motherboards use DIP switches (Figure 4) for both the CPU clock speed and the multiplier settings.
Video Overclocking Made Easy
Most of the overclocking buzz is not about turning a PC into a supercomputer. Instead, it's about gamers being able to see, navigate, run, and shoot faster and smoother. Not surprisingly, you can overclock the processors on your graphics card in much the same way you would your main CPU. Video gaming has come a long way since Pong first appeared on TV-style monitors in the early 1980s. Even if you don't play video games, boosting the performance of your graphics system can enhance the enjoyment of videos and business presentations.

Quiet PCs: Keep Your System Cool and Quiet
Chill Your CPU, Dude
Speed breeds heat. After you've tuned up your CPU, it's especially critical that you get as much heat away from the chip as possible, or you'll end up with a smelly blackened chunk of fried silicon. Most systems come with factory-approved heat sinks and fans suitable for running the chip at stock speeds, but such standard equipment may be inadequate for overclocking, and it's usually pretty loud. A new heat sink and fan can improve your CPU cooling while keeping your system quiet. Zalman's $50 CNPS7000B CPU cooler (Figure 9) works with many Athlon and P4 CPUs. And Thermaltake's $40 CL-P0092 heat-pipe cooling system for P4 chips looks as cool as it works.
Heat sinks and fans are fine for most people; but at many overclocking and PC modder sites, water-cooling kits (ranging in price from about $100 to $180) are all the rage. Liquid cooling worked for Cray's supercomputers, but in that case the entire machine was immersed in inert nonconductive liquid--not exactly a practical setup for home users. Most liquid-cooling systems for PCs circulate water across a heat pad atop the CPU and then pump and dump the heat outside. This method offers incredible cooling advantages for extremely overclocked CPUs, chip sets, and graphics cards. Make sure you have enough room in your case and around the CPU before you buy, however.
Juicier and Quieter
All of your enhanced CPU overclocking and PC tweaking can kill your power supply, as the souped-up parts try to suck more juice out of this obscure, little, wire-crammed box in the corner of your PC case. You need a power supply upgrade, and you need it now. What better way to complement your tricked-out PC than a cool and quiet new power supply with enough juice to keep every chip, drive, and light-emitting source humming along?
Power doesn't always have to be as noisy as the exhaust rattle from a modified Honda Civic. A handful of vendors now offer fanless supplies, such as the $170 Antec Phantom 350-watt model (Figure 10). These units sport beefed-up internal heat sinks that provide enough cooling for the power supply without requiring you to use a noisy fan.

Overclock your PC and graphics card: When you overclock your CPU, you set it to run it faster than its certified speed. This is usually okay because the CPU is designed to go beyond its stated velocity (chip makers build in a little cushion). With many PCs, you just increase the front-side bus speed and/or the CPU multiplier settings in your PC Setup program (which you enter by hitting or after you turn your system on but before Windows loads).
For more details on how to overclock your CPU and graphics card, see last March's "Secret Tweaks" feature. Keep in mind, however, that overheating a processor--or any other chip, for that matter--can destroy it. Always do your homework before you alter your system.
2. Push your RAM timing: Lower the CAS Latency setting, typically from 3 or 2.5 to 2. This makes your memory faster, but it can also cause lockups on systems that use lower-quality memory chips. "CAS" stands for "column address strobe." Visit Wikipedia (CAS Latency) for more on this technology, and check out my January 2004 column ("Choose the Right Kind of Memory for Your System") on choosing memory.
4. Isolate your swap file: Your PC's swap file--or virtual memory--puts data onto the hard drive when your system's RAM gets full. Unfortunately, accessing data on a hard drive is much slower than accessing data stored in RAM. A PC that frequently accesses the swap file for data may suffer a noticeable performance hit.
The best way to speed up swap-file access is to place the file on a second hard drive--ideally one without any other program or operating system files. If you can't put the swap file on its own hard drive, place it in its own drive partition to minimize fragmentation, which also slows memory access. Partitioning software such as Symantec's $70 PartitionMagic 8) makes creating partitions a breeze.
5. Toss your swap file: If your PC has at least 1GB of RAM, you may be able to speed up your PC by disabling the swap file in your virtual memory settings. Simply click No paging file in the Virtual Memory dialog box (see Figure 1). To open your virtual memory settings in Windows XP, right-click My Computer, click Properties, Advanced, choose the Settings button under "Performance", click the Advanced tab, and select the Change button.

Answer 2

every cpu is different. say your friend has the exact same system setup as yours. its quite possible that he can get a higher overclock. therefore, you cannot say before hand how high a cpu can go.

next thing, overclocking is strictly for BRAGGING RIGHTS. it generally never results in a truly noticable performance boost. the only way you'll notice the difference is if you use a benchmarking program that tests your system (pcmark, 3dmark, etc). for example, overclocking an older system does not mean that i'll match a newer system.

either way, i highly reccommend that you don't overclock unless you are sure that you want to squeeze that little bit of unoticable performance out at the risk of: decreasing your cpu's/ video card's life, voiding warranties, and possible destruction of $xxx piece of hardware. also, overclocking your integrated graphics will get you nowhere.

Answer 3

Go to the Intel Web site and get the free tools to check your mobo features, CPU setting and the like. It will tell you all these things. If you have integrated graphics, no.
The CPU might like the speed just fine, but the board is a hard head.

Answer 4

i reall recommend you do NOT do that. my friend works at a computer shop and he highly recommends not to overclock. and definitely not by that much if you really have to. he says the maximum you should attempt to overclock (if you must) is by 10%. and i have to warn you. if you overclock and later have a problem with your computer, the guarantee often wont work anymore

Answer 5

intel motherboard is not good at overclocking, i advise u not to do it

Answer 6

Three wise words for ya "Don't Do It"