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Well guys, I got a Biostar U8668 Pro few months back for about $10 from a friend here locally. I only bought it cause it was cheap, and I thought maybe one day I'd need it for a client. Well, so far that day hasn't come. So now I'm kind of thinking about building a P4 rig just to do it and say I've done it. In doing so, a few questions arrise.

1.) This board can handle up to a 2.6Ghz P4 400mhz FSB. Any ideas on what kind of OC capability I'd be looking at? The website says the board features "WarpSpeeder" technology which is an overclocking tool. Wonder if this is a good sign? Would I be better off spending $20 or so less and getting a 2.0 and just OCin' it?

2.) Northwood Sudden Death syndrome, any need to worry about this anymore? Was this really "that" much of a scare?

3.) HSF, can anybody recommend a good one to me? I have no idea what's good for these. I haven't "built" an Intel rig since the Socket 370 days.

4.) Anything else I need to know? I know there are a few Intel Gurus here, so help me out. This will be my first adventure w/a P4.

TIA!

eGo

1.) This board can handle up to a 2.6Ghz P4 400mhz FSB. Any ideas on what kind of OC capability I'd be looking at? The website says the board features "WarpSpeeder" technology which is an overclocking tool. Wonder if this is a good sign? Would I be better off spending $20 or so less and getting a 2.0 and just OCin' it?

WarpSpeeder...LOL the 2.0A was a good O/C

2.) Northwood Sudden Death syndrome, any need to worry about this anymore? Was this really "that" much of a scare?

nah

3.) HSF, can anybody recommend a good one to me? I have no idea what's good for these. I haven't "built" an Intel rig since the Socket 370 days.

Actually the stocker ain't that bad. An alpha would be cool too.

4.) Anything else I need to know? I know there are a few Intel Gurus here, so help me out. This will be my first adventure w/a P4.

use DDR rather than the SDRamm I think that board does both. Don't expect blazing speeds as the VIA boards on those days were the worst P4 boards. Intel's chipset was the best and the SiS was 2nd place.

my 2.0a northwood did 2,4 @ default and 2.7 at .10 above that
That being said my barton at 2600 smokes the p4 @ 2700 something fierce

Yah, I know.. both of my 2500+ will smoke it for sure. Of course they're both at 3200+ speeds. I'm working on a 3rd one. But I wanted to build an intel just to build one. So would there be any higher speeds to be had if I was to get the 2.6 and try to OC it higher? Or does anybody know if that would work ok? I don't even understand how Intel OCs.... Yet.. lol

eGo

intel is a straight fsb overclock - more head room in the chips with the lower multis I believe -

i think northwood death syndrome was becuz 1.6 can't run at 2.8 forever

Originally posted by DaMaN

use DDR rather than the SDRamm I think that board does both. Don't expect blazing speeds as the VIA boards on those days were the worst P4 boards. Intel's chipset was the best and the SiS was 2nd place. [/B]

my MB chipset says Viakt400a is that bad like that one

Originally posted by PHILO67
my MB chipset says Viakt400a is that bad like that one

Via is a good chipset no worries, I had a kt400A when I was running AMD, keep those 4 in one drivers updated though!
And the kt400 is a littel outdated, now there is the kt880 and nforce 2 for the Semptron/xp line if I am not mistaken.
Keep in Mind If been p4 for a while though not too up to dat eon the new AMD stuff as of late.

SNDS [sudden northwood death syndrome] is very real unfortunately. I killed a 2.4C with too many
volts pumped through it. Started acting crazy, exhibiting wierd errors and basically not working.