I'm looking to upgrade my existing system to a socket 939 Athlon FX-53-based system sometime soon (within a couple of months, I imagine) and would like to hear advice, suggestions and recommendations where overclocking is concerned.
My current box is a Pentium 4 2.4GHz (533MHz FSB) sitting happily inside a Coolermaster ATC-110 aluminium case. This latter item and the Enermax 460W PSU inside it are the two items I'm keenest to not have to replace (I rather like the case, and it was some £200+ when I got it just over a year ago).
As for the rest; motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive and graphics card are all up for replacement. I've got ideas about what I want for each (Western Digital Raptor 74Gb hard drive and Radeon X800XT for graphics are just two), but I'm still uncertain about other things, most of all - cooling.
Obviously the fact that the FX-53 isn't multiplier locked means overclocking is on the agenda, I'm just not sure how hard - I've really not read an awful lot about just how hot the Athlon FX gets compared to (say) Northwood Pentium 4s. I'd also rather like to be able to get the system running as close to quiet as possible.
So in short; I'd like advice on necessary cooling for overclocking the FX-53 (peltier, water-cooling etc.) and if possible, keeping the Coolermaster case (modding if necessary). Also, any thoughts on motherboard choices (since there don't appear to be any S939 boards available in the UK yet) would be useful!
My current box is a Pentium 4 2.4GHz (533MHz FSB) sitting happily inside a Coolermaster ATC-110 aluminium case. This latter item and the Enermax 460W PSU inside it are the two items I'm keenest to not have to replace (I rather like the case, and it was some £200+ when I got it just over a year ago).
As for the rest; motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive and graphics card are all up for replacement. I've got ideas about what I want for each (Western Digital Raptor 74Gb hard drive and Radeon X800XT for graphics are just two), but I'm still uncertain about other things, most of all - cooling.
Obviously the fact that the FX-53 isn't multiplier locked means overclocking is on the agenda, I'm just not sure how hard - I've really not read an awful lot about just how hot the Athlon FX gets compared to (say) Northwood Pentium 4s. I'd also rather like to be able to get the system running as close to quiet as possible.
So in short; I'd like advice on necessary cooling for overclocking the FX-53 (peltier, water-cooling etc.) and if possible, keeping the Coolermaster case (modding if necessary). Also, any thoughts on motherboard choices (since there don't appear to be any S939 boards available in the UK yet) would be useful!
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