MSI shows it : Overclocking a Pentium 4 2.4C to 3.6GHz

The popular motherboard maker MSI has made an article on overclocking a Pentium 4 2.4C (800MHz FSB) to an amazing 3.6GHz, in order to show the great overclocking possibilities with their 848P. To do this they used their new 848P Neo motherboard, a Pentium 4 2.4C and the memory they used was GEIL PC4200. In their first expirement they managed to get their 2.4GHz Pentium 4 up to 3.6GHz by cranking the FSB up to 300MHz.

They also illustrate how they leveled the 200MHz FSB to an FSB of 350MHz! For this you need an unlocked engineering sample of the Pentium 4, which are hard to find, the CPU ratio however was changed to 8x, so they only reached 2.8GHz with an amazing FSB of 350MHz. Unfortunately no benchmarks are included. They also do not talk about cooling, so I think they did it with the stock cooler that came with the Pentium 4 2.4C processor.

This is one of the only times I saw a big company like MSI actually encouraging their users to overclock their hardware by showing them how to do it. It only misses a few parts, like the cooling part. From their results it seems that their cheap 848P Neo motherboard is very capable with overclocking! Cheapest price that I found of the 848P Neo was $87. Some other nice overclock results can be found here

Full article can be found here