AMD Athlon 64 3500+ boosting

[darknodin]

I have an A8N-SLI Deluxe and i was wondering if the AI NOS is any good. also, I'd like to know how high i could get up my 3500+ on air cooling and along with my memory (DDR400 from Kingston). thanks

btw... if you haven't realized already... i'm a complete newbie in this

Edit: I want to add... how much should i overclock my Leadtek 6600GT card (and should i bring it back down when i buy a second one)

 

[ts3433]

Not sure what "AI NOS" is, but I'll see if I can answer your other questions.

How high you can get your 3500+ will be dependent on whether it's a 130nm Newcastle or 90nm Winchester core. A Winchester should make 2.6-2.7 GHz easily, while a Newcastle would be a bit below that (2.5-2.6 maybe). RAM won't matter; look at the sticky at the top of this section of the forum.

I can't tell you how much to overclock your video card, but I believe you need to run both cards at the same clockspeeds when running in SLI.

 

[IlllI]

yeah, i have no idea what an AI NOS is either. never heard of it before

 

[darknodin]

Thanks... all 3500+ are S939... which is winchester i think
the AI NOS is something from asus which gets the CPU clock faster if more is needed. you can set it in the BIOS like 10% OC, 15% or such things...

 

[ts3433]

I know all 3500+ chips are S939, but there are indeed Newcastle S939 chips (3500+, 3800+, and 3400+ S939, which is a 3500+ with 1600MHz effective HyperTransport instead of 2000MHz). Both cores exist for the 3500+; use CPU-Z to see what you have.

If "AI NOS" is an automatic overclocker, you may want to bypass that and overclock manually to make sure everything's right.

 

[darknodin]

yea you right... thanks... i didn't know that... I'll check as soon as I can... (it doesn't really say on the AMD website either... that's annoying) and yea AI NOS is automatic... so i guess i'll steer clear...

thanks for your advice

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Nawz?

- M4H

 

[darknodin]

haha NOS... Non-delay Overclock System.... btw i checked and my CPU is a Newcastle... shoulda checked before i bought it tho...anyways... if it gets to 2.5 i'll still be happy