athlon 3000 OC to 3400? skt 754

[socket9851]

does anyone think that i could OC the 3000 NC to the speeds of 3400? or should i buy the 3200 and OC it to 3400 i am going to buy the DFI board with nforce chipset tonight i want to order my cpu/board/memory either way i want a processor that will run at 2.4 ghz i want to order this setup

1 memory http://www.newegg.com/app/View...tory=BROWSE&depa=1

2 processor http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=19-103-486&depa=1

3 motherboard http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=13-136-147&depa=1

 

[Ariste]

I'd say you can. I have my 3000+ Newcastle running at 2.5GHz right now on water, so I'd say that you can hit 2.4GHz on some decent air cooling. Some people can even get 2.6GHz out of these chips, but you'd have to be really lucky.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

should be able to hit 2.4. Most Newcastle's will.

 

[socket9851]

cool than i will use the 40 bucks to go towards another stick of mem or a faster HD so what is the fastest speed anyone gotten a athlon 64 on air?

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Just remember most but not all Newcastle's will hit 2.4. Mine will but at a 1.7 vcore. Its really luck if you get a good OCer or not.

 

[socket9851]

well i ordered the 3000 so i hope i can get 2.4 if not it will be ok i am upgrading from a athlon xp 1600 i know my best chances are with the DFI board and that is what i got ordered maybe i'll just get lucky enough to hit 2.4

 

[Losty]

i think you could ... my 2800+ hits 2.4xx @ 1.6vcore
does 2.0 at stock and 2.3 at 1.55 if i remember correctly

-losty

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Think I really have to hit the AMD band waggon. Now that I already DivX'ed almost everything that interests me and saved much time over any offering from AMD. I think now might be worth the moeny to get an additional 7-14 FPS over the Intel solutions. These threads make me want to switch more and more :|
Now that SLI is just right around the corner, I think I have no choice...

 

[Shimmishim]

can i recommend this ram instead?

http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=20-141-117&depa=1

pqi turbo 2-2-2-5 and it uses the brainpower pcb which overclocks higher than ram that uses the jedec reference pcb...

in order to hit 2.4 with the 3000+, you will have to run 240 HTT with the top locked 10x mult.

this ram should hit 240 easily with 2-3-3-7 or 2.5-3-3-7 timing

you could probably even drop the mult to 9 and use an HT of 267 (~ 2.4 ghz) and still run 1:1