Originally posted by netchspadetch
Whats the highest my p4 northwood at 2.26ghz could go without crashing?
no one but you can
really be certain, i'd check the cpu database at overclockers.com and see, but cores differ and one persons overclock may not be yours.
As for overclocking, some folks buy budget speeds and get some more juice out of it, and they bought the budget chip solely to get mor speed, also alot of chips are downbinned to fullfill demand, so just because it
says 1500MHz for instance, does not mean it was designed for 1500MHz, its quite possibly a 2Ghz chip or more just downbinned to 1.5Ghz.
For stuff like divx encoding, a faster cpu helps alot, cutting time down quite a bit, especially for people like me who encode alot.