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Athlon 64 3000+ System

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IanE

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First time building a system and this is what I came up with...

MOTHERBOARD: MSI K8N Neo Platinum
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
PROCESSOR HEATSINK FAN: Stock... looking for suggestions for overclocking!
MEMORY: Geil PC3200 1x512mb
GRAPHICS: BFG GeForce 6800 GT
SOUND: On board
HARD DRIVE: Seagate Baracuda 120GB 7,200 RPM
OPTICAL DRIVE: AOpen Chameleon Combo Drive
POWER SUPPLY: Antec TrueBlue 480w
CASE: Thermaltake Tsunami Dream, Black with window.

What can I successfully overclock, and how should I go about doing it to get the most out of my system?

The K8N Neo Platinum comes with a Dynamic Overclocking Technology option than will overclock the CPU automatically with 1%-11% increase options... should I just OC the CPU and leave the rest alone? I know the memory I got isn't much fo roverclocking, but I'm mainly concerned with the CPU... somebody told me the 3000+ can go up to 2.5ghz, if done correctly.

Any thoughts?

Ian
 
I assume you have a 2.0Ghz Northwood. I don't think you'll get that to 2.5Ghz. You see, if you just want to overclock your CPU, then you'd have to run your ram on a divider ratio, this will not improve system performance in my experience. Get new ram and run it on 1:1. I don't think that Ram will be stable at even a 10% overclock, unless you pump some serious voltage into it.
 
is OCZ Gold Edition Rev2 PC-4000 a good buy if im in need of a 250fsb? i'm in the same boat as the above poster, but i havent ordered my rig yet.
 
Originally posted by: Adn4n
I assume you have a 2.0Ghz Northwood. I don't think you'll get that to 2.5Ghz. You see, if you just want to overclock your CPU, then you'd have to run your ram on a divider ratio, this will not improve system performance in my experience. Get new ram and run it on 1:1. I don't think that Ram will be stable at even a 10% overclock, unless you pump some serious voltage into it.
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He said Athlon64?

 
Originally posted by: Adn4n
I assume you have a 2.0Ghz Northwood. I don't think you'll get that to 2.5Ghz. You see, if you just want to overclock your CPU, then you'd have to run your ram on a divider ratio, this will not improve system performance in my experience. Get new ram and run it on 1:1. I don't think that Ram will be stable at even a 10% overclock, unless you pump some serious voltage into it.
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Geil memory not being able to overclock 10%? I bet his would do it, especially if he upped the voltage a bit to his dimm. Geil memory loves voltage.
 
Northwood is a P4 core.
My A64 3000+ hits 2370 stable.
Ram is running at 198mhz(ish), I have it running at a reduced ratio (it's only pc3200 / 200mhz).
Voltage is pretty high... 1.7v I believe.

Manual overclocking is always best, I have had problems with dynamic overclocking.
Zalman 7000a-cu has worked really well for me as far as a CPU cooler goes~
 
OMG1Penguin, did you have to do anything with the memory to get your 3000+ to 2370? Could you tell me how to get it to that speed? I'd have to get a better HSF first, right?

I hear the Coolermaster Hyper 6 is good.. I'll read up.
 
Originally posted by: IanE
OMG1Penguin, did you have to do anything with the memory to get your 3000+ to 2370? Could you tell me how to get it to that speed? I'd have to get a better HSF first, right?

I hear the Coolermaster Hyper 6 is good.. I'll read up.
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Before you do this make sure the agp/pci lock is on, on a vnf3 mobo u have to put agp at 67

1st: set ur memory to 166mhz,
2nd: set the fsb to whatever you want (230=2.3ghz, 240=2.4ghz ect..)
3rd: you might need to raise your vcore and vdimm but before you do try and run prime95 overnight if it passes than u dont need to raise those, if it fails than raise the vdimm to 2.7 and/or the vcore to 1.55
4th: run memtest86
 
So what exactly should I do to overclock the CPU?

My MB has a program called CoreCenter... you can OC from Windows and monitor the CPU temp and such. It lists voltages and speeds for everything.

Should I use the CoreCenter to OC or do it through the BIOS?
 
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