Budget Overclocker

[akshayt]

Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

e6300, P5B, Corsair value ram 667

or simply get this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103026
If I were you I'd dump that Sound Blaster 24 bit. I had one...once and its sucked. Integrated audio is a lot Better now a-days.

Also, the x1900 sucks so trash that too

 

[akshayt]

I am not doing an upgrade. I need the hardware on behalf of my school for a school overclocking competition.
Please suggest CPU + MB in not more than 150$.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Get a 2.0 celeron and a foxcon mobo... problem solved? Sometimes I think you WANT your topics to turn into flame fests...

 

[lyssword]

Yeah, celeron sux on performance, but you'll get the ++ mhz on overclock

 

[secretanchitman]

pentium D 805 + whatever mobo with some corsair ram?

how about just overclocking your own system? those socket 939s are good overclockers.

but WAIT YOUR X1900 SUCKS. IT REALLY DOES.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
how about just overclocking your own system? those socket 939s are good overclockers.

You'd think, but he doesn't know how to to OC, in spite of plagiarizing others' OCing guides to write his own.

Last time i tried helping him, he ignored my recommendations for using RAM dividers & then continued to rage on how he couldn't OC worth crap :roll:

 

[Capt Caveman]

Just ignore him. Makes the forum a nicer place.

 

[Zap]

Any good overclockable socket AM2 motherboard for under $100.

Socket AM2 Sempron with 8x multiplier such as 2800+ (Club IT had it for $41) or 3000+.

Originally posted by: gersson
Get a 2.0 celeron and a foxcon mobo... problem solved? Sometimes I think you WANT your topics to turn into flame fests...

Actually how about a Celeron D 310? That should have a small enough multiplier - heck, may even score a 100% overclock! Stock speed is around 2.13GHz on 533MHz FSB. OOS, but only $35 shipped OEM. Needs a good cheap HSF. Too bad not socket LGA 775 as those boards are probably better because of high FSB requirements of the new chips. Perhaps this $57 Asus board for overclocking, though there are almost no socket 478 boards left on the market. Can pre-test at 800MHz FSB and then pin mod that chip for 3.2GHz "stock" speeds, then push it up from there, though don't know how high that board can go - no more good 865PE chipset boards left.

EDIT: HAHA, Club IT as one word is banned. WTF, they didn't buy enough advertising last month from here?

 

[SparkyJJO]

What is with everyone saying the X1900 is crap? I hope you guys are joking or you must be a bunch of nvidia fanboys....

 

[nyker96]

or you can get one of the 754 and OC up 50%+. But if you got matched DDR, I'd go with a nice OC board 939 with a cheap CPU like A64 3400+ or something cheap. Oc up 25-50% and you all set.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
What is with everyone saying the X1900 is crap? I hope you guys are joking or you must be a bunch of nvidia fanboys....

You obviously missed the OP's infamous thread about the X1900XTX being CRAP. When it actually was the OP who was full of crap.

 

[Bobthelost]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
What is with everyone saying the X1900 is crap? I hope you guys are joking or you must be a bunch of nvidia fanboys....

You missed that thread then?

 

[brikis98]

you could try something like this

 

[PG]

Intel 805 for $87 shipped: http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4748829?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Not the best board, but it's cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157092

You need a good cooler though and I don't know what to recommend for that.

 

[cmrmrc]

i say MSI K9N PLATINUM with AMD SEMPRON AM2 2800+....you can get that cheap to 2.4ghz easily...

 

[SparkyJJO]

yeah OK apparently I missed the thread

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: akshayt
Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.

but you're the master overclocker...you should already know the answer to this.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: n7

You'd think, but he doesn't know how to to OC, in spite of plagiarizing others' OCing guides to write his own.

[/quote]


Was that the "unbiased" one ?

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

Originally posted by: Stumps

Originally posted by: akshayt
Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.

but you're the master overclocker...you should already know the answer to this.

this may be a test and the one who passes will become his new student in the arts of overclocking..

btw: what the heck is a school overclocking competition?

 

[IEC]

Mobile Celeron + s478 motherboard. A 2.0GHz mobile can be made to go to 3.2GHz.

 

[Zap]

Heh, I had a mobile Celeron 1.6 at 3.2GHz. Not 100% stable, but it worked. Stability issue may have been motherboard because it was an 845PE chipset board with bulging caps. Board was designed for 400/533MHz FSB and I was pushing 800MHz.

Wonder what happened to that board anyways. Last I know, Galvanized Yankee had it.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Zap
Heh, I had a mobile Celeron 1.6 at 3.2GHz. Not 100% stable, but it worked. Stability issue may have been motherboard because it was an 845PE chipset board with bulging caps. Board was designed for 400/533MHz FSB and I was pushing 800MHz.

Wonder what happened to that board anyways. Last I know, Galvanized Yankee had it.

I had my previous s478 motherboard go bad because of bad caps - I was pretty pissed. A cheap Shuttle board was the replacement for my 1.5GHz P4

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch

Originally posted by: Stumps

Originally posted by: akshayt
Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.

but you're the master overclocker...you should already know the answer to this.

this may be a test and the one who passes will become his new student in the arts of overclocking..

btw: what the heck is a school overclocking competition?

LOL!

just a pity for him that most ATer's have long past Akshayt(pronounced "ASSHAT") feeble overclocking skills.

what made me laugh the most is the fact that he was bragging and wrote a blog on how he got a "whooping" 2.4ghz out of his 3200+

I was pissed off that I only got 2.87ghz@1.55v out of my 3000+ skt 754...I blame my piddly little thermaltake water cooling kit.

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
this may be a test and the one who passes will become his new student in the arts of overclocking..

btw: what the heck is a school overclocking competition?

It does sound a lot like BS doesn't it.