List of Tables

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Chapter 1: From the Industrial Era to the Information Age

Table 1.1: Number of Transistors in Intel Processors

Chapter 2: Philosophy of Hardware Overclocking

Table 2.1: Evolution of Intel Manufacturing Processes

Table 2.2: Evolution of Intel Processor Architecture for Desktop PCs

Table 2.3: Evolution of Video Adapters

Table 2.4: Evolution of RAM

Table 2.5: Evolution of the ATA Interface

Table 2.6: Lifetime of Architectures, Standards, and Components

Chapter 3: Moderate and Extreme Overclocking Modes

Table 3.1: Evaluation of CPU Heat Generation (P_k) with Different F_k and V_k Values

Table 3.2: Frequency Relationship between DDR Memory and FSB

Table 3.3: Increasing the CPU and Memory Clock Frequencies with the FSB Frequency

Table 3.4: Testing Results Shown by SiSoftware Sandra

Chapter 4: Main Components and the Optimal Choice

Table 4.1: Pentium III Heat Dissipation (256KB L2, SECC2)

Table 4.2: Pentium III Heat Dissipation (256KB L2, PGA370)

Table 4.3: Heat Dissipation of Pentium III (SECC2) Based on the Katmai and Coppermine Cores

Table 4.4: Celeron Heat Dissipation (FC-PGA)

Table 4.5: Temperature Parameters of Pentium 4 (Willamette, Socket 423, 400 MHz)

Table 4.6: Temperature Parameters of Pentium 4 (Willamette, Socket 478, 400 MHz)

Table 4.7: Temperature Parameters of Celeron (Willamette, Socket 478, 400 MHz)

Table 4.8: Temperature Parameters of Pentium 4 (Northwood, Socket 478, 400 MHz)

Table 4.9: Temperature Parameters of Pentium 4 (Northwood, Socket 478, 533 MHz)

Table 4.10: Temperature Parameters of Pentium 4 (Northwood, Socket 478, 800 MHz, multiple VID)

Table 4.11: Temperature Parameters of Celeron (Northwood, Socket 478, 400 MHz, multiple VID)

Table 4.12: Core Supply Voltages for Athlon/Duron (June 2000)

Table 4.13: Core Supply Voltages for Duron Model 7 (October 2001)

Table 4.14: Core Supply Voltages for Athlon/Duron Model 3 (November/June 2001)

Table 4.15: Power of Athlon (June 2000)

Table 4.16: Power of Athlon (November 2001)

Table 4.17: Power of Duron (June 2000)

Table 4.18: Power of Duron (June 2001)

Table 4.19: Power of Duron Model 7 (November 2001)

Table 4.20: Parameters of Athlon XP (Palomino, Thoroughbred)

Table 4.21: Characteristics of the Barton and Thoroughbred-B Cores

Table 4.22: Characteristics of Newer Athlon XP Processor Models

Table 4.23: Correspondence between Clock and Bus Frequency, Core Type, Cache-Memory Size, and Athlon XP Rating

Table 4.24: Parameters of Processors and SDRAM

Table 4.25: Parameters of Processors and Direct RDRAM

Table 4.26: Parameters of Processors and DDR SDRAM

Table 4.27: Frequency Modes for the Processor Bus and Memory

Table 4.28: Evolution of Nvidia and ATI Products

Table 4.29: ATX Specification Requirements

Table 4.30: Enermax EG365AX-VE Test Results

Table 4.31: Delta Electronics DPS-300TB Test Results

Chapter 5: BIOS as Additional Performance Reserve

Table 5.1: BIOS Test Results Using CPUmark 99 and FPU WinMark

Table 5.2: BIOS Test Results Using 3DMark2001 SE Pro

Chapter 6: Computer Hardware Monitoring

Table 6.1: Recommended Resistance Values for External Resistors

Table 6.2: Temperature Parameters of the Pentium III FC-PGA Processors

Table 6.3: Outputs of the Thermal Sensors of the Pentium III/4 Processors

Table 6.4: Main Parameters of Winbond Chips

Table 6.5: Main Parameters of National Semiconductor Chips

Table 6.6: Main Hardware-Monitoring Parameters in VT82C686A

Table 6.7: Monitoring Chips Supported by MBM 4 and MBM 5

Table 6.8: Abit Motherboards

Table 6.9: Acer Motherboards

Table 6.10: A-Trend Motherboards

Table 6.11: AOpen Motherboards

Table 6.12: Asus Motherboards

Table 6.13: Chaintech Motherboards

Table 6.14: Elitegroup Motherboards

Table 6.15: Epox Motherboards

Table 6.16: FIC Motherboards

Table 6.17: Gigabyte Technology Motherboards

Table 6.18: Intel Motherboards

Table 6.19: MSI Computer Motherboards

Chapter 8: Approaches to Processor Overclocking

Table 8.1: Overclocking Celeron (Northwood)

Table 8.2: Overclocking Duron by Increasing the Bus Frequency

Table 8.3: Overclocking Athlon (Thunderbird) by Increasing the Bus Frequency

Table 8.4: Overclocking Duron by Changing the Multiplier

Table 8.5: Overclocking Athlon (Thunderbird) by Changing the Multiplier

Table 8.6: Overclocking Duron by Combining Methods

Table 8.7: Voltage Identification for Pentium II

Table 8.8: VID0–VID4 Locations on the CPU Board

Table 8.9: CPU Supply Voltage Correction

Table 8.10: Voltage Identification for Pentium III

Table 8.11: Voltage Identification for Celeron (Tualatin)

Table 8.12: Selecting the Bus Frequency

Table 8.13: Nominal Mode of Celeron (Tualatin)

Table 8.14: Configuration of L11 Bridges and Their Core Voltages

Table 8.15: Parameters and Test Results of the Processors

Chapter 9: Software Tools for Cooling

Table 9.1: Evaluation of Prevalence among Windows Operating Systems

Table 9.2: Analysis of the Optimization Capabilities of CpuIdle

Chapter 10: Choosing Cooling Devices and Parameters

Table 10.1: Thermal Properties of Materials

Table 10.2: Parameters of Coolers for Socket 478 Processors

Table 10.3: Ratings of the Tested Coolers

Table 10.4: Parameters of Coolers for Socket A Processors

Chapter 11: Problems with using Thermoelectric Elements

Table 11.1: Peltier Factors for Pairs of Conductors

Table 11.2: Peltier Modules from Osterm

Table 11.3: Temperatures at Which Moisture Will Condense

Table 11.4: Industrial Coolers Based on Peltier Modules

Table 11.5: Coolers of the BCool Series

Chapter 12: Overclocking and Fine-Tuning RAM

Table 12.1: Performance Evaluation of the Default Parameters

Table 12.2: Performance Evaluation (Bank Interleave = 2 Bank)

Table 12.3: Performance Evaluation (Bank Interleave = 4 Bank)

Table 12.4: Performance Evaluation (DRAM Command Rate = 1T)

Table 12.5: Performance Evaluation (CAS Latency = 2T)

Table 12.6: Performance Evaluation (Trp = 2T, Tras = 5T, Trcd = 2T)

Table 12.7: Performance Evaluation (FSB = 133 MHz)

Table 12.8: Performance Evaluation (FSB = 166 MHz)

Table 12.9: Memory Module Parameters and Performance Evaluation

Chapter 13: Video Subsystem Overclocking

Table 13.1: Combinations of FSB and AGP Frequencies

Table 13.2: Standard Frequencies for Contemporary Motherboards

Table 13.3: Clock Frequency and Throughput of the AGP Bus

Table 13.4: Test Results with a Matrox Video Adapter

Table 13.5: Test Results with an Asus Video Adapter

Table 13.6: Test Results with an Abit Video Adapter

Chapter 15: Technology and Problems of Overclocking IDE Drives

Table 15.1: Prevalent Frequencies in Motherboards Based on Intel 440BX

Table 15.2: Standard Frequencies for Contemporary Motherboards

Table 15.3: Clock Frequencies and Bandwidths of the PCI Bus

Table 15.4: Hard Disk Performance

Table 15.5: Comparison of CD-R and HD-Burn

Chapter 18: Examples and Analysis of PC Overclocking

Table 18.1: Results of Overclocking Pentium II 300 MHz

Table 18.2: Results for Pentium II 300 MHz (high-end disk, 1,000 bytes/sec)

Table 18.3: Results of Overclocking Pentium II 333 MHz

Table 18.4: Results of Overclocking Pentium III 500E

Table 18.5: Results for Pentium III 550E (WinBench 99)

Table 18.6: Results for Pentium III 550E (3DMark2000, Video 2000)

Table 18.7: Analysis of the Results for Pentium III 550E (Video 2000)

Table 18.8: Results of Overclocking Pentium III 700E

Table 18.9: Results of Overclocking Pentium III 800EB

Table 18.10: Results for Celeron 533 MHz (SiSoftware Sandra)

Table 18.11: Results for Celeron 533 MHz (3DMark2000)

Table 18.12: Results for Celeron 533 MHz (Quake III)

Table 18.13: Results of Overclocking Celeron 600 MHz

Table 18.14: Results of Overclocking Pentium III 1.13 GHz

Table 18.15: Results of Overclocking Celeron 1.3 GHz

Table 18.16: Results of Overclocking the Modified Celeron 1.3 GHz

Table 18.17: Results of Overclocking Pentium 4 1.4 GHz (http://www.overclockers.ru)

Table 18.18: Results of Overclocking Pentium 4 1.7 GHz (http://www.overclockers.ru)

Table 18.19: Results of Overclocking Pentium 4 1.5 GHz

Table 18.20: Analysis of the Results for Pentium 4 1.5 GHz (Video 2000)

Table 18.21: Results of Overclocking Pentium 4 1.7 GHz

Table 18.22: Results of Overclocking Pentium 4 2.2 GHz

Table 18.23: Analysis of the Results for Pentium 4 2.2 GHz (Video 2000)

Table 18.24: Results of Overclocking Pentium 4 3.0 GHz

Table 18.25: Results of Overclocking Celeron 2.0 GHz

Table 18.26: Results of Increasing the FSB Frequency for Athlon 700

Table 18.27: Results of Changing the Multiplier for Athlon 700

Table 18.28: Results of Combined Overclocking of Athlon 700

Table 18.29: Parameters When Overclocking Athlon 700

Table 18.30: Test Stages While Overclocking Athlon 700

Table 18.31: Results of Overclocking Duron 650

Table 18.32: Results of Increasing the FSB Frequency for Duron 600 (Abit KT7)

Table 18.33: Results of Increasing the FSB Frequency for Duron 600 (Soltek SL-75KV+)

Table 18.34: Results of Changing the Multiplier for Duron 600 (Abit KT7)

Table 18.35: Results of Changing the Multiplier for Duron 600 (Soltek SL-75KV+)

Table 18.36: Results of Combined Overclocking of Duron 600 (Soltek SL-75KV+)

Table 18.37: Results of Combined Overclocking of Duron 600 (Abit KT7)

Table 18.38: Parameters When Overclocking Duron 600 (Abit KT7)

Table 18.39: Parameters When Overclocking Duron 600 (Soltek SL-75KV+)

Table 18.40: Test Stages While Overclocking Duron 600 (Abit KT7)

Table 18.41: Results of Overclocking Athlon XP 1500+

Table 18.42: Results of Overclocking Athlon XP 2200+

Table 18.43: Results of Overclocking VIA C3 800 MHz (specialized programs)

Table 18.44: Results of Overclocking VIA C3 800 MHz (standard programs)

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