Finished overclocking my DFINF3 250 & Sempron 1800

[mattburk]

Ok, the final numbers are in.
cpu 2496.06
HTT 312.01
Memory 249.61
Not bad for a 1.6 cpu

Parts:
MB DFI UT NF3 250gb
cpu amd sempron 2800 1.6
Ram OCZ plat 3200rev 2
psu Mad dog 500watt
os Windows xp pro with all updates
CPU Fan Zalman 7000
Video card (weak link) ATI Radeon 9500 pro.

I am doing the benches now. I hope all holds together well, and remains stable.

Only complaints:
1. Manual is next to useless. They should really walk through the bios with you!!
2. Nforce 3 chipset will not take my tv tuner card, love that card.
3. Nforce ide drivers will not work with my maxtor sata drives. Will not even boot up with a new unformatted drive in any of the sata slots.
4. Had a hard time getting the usb ports to work at usb 2 levels, had to reinstall the usb 2 drivers a few times off of the cd, this is even after doing all the windows updates.

Overall, it is a great overclock, and if all remains stable long term I will be happy. If this turns into unstable city, then I will go for a different board.

 

[mattburk]

Running stable at 2440. I got a high of 17156 with my 9500 pro.

 

[mattburk]

Any body get a dfi nf3/4 to work with a maxtor drive?
I thought I had it fixed when I uninstalled the dfi ide drivers. That worked for about two days. Now my hard drive does not show up and I am getting unstable boots.
Any help would be welcomed.
Thank You
Matthew

 

[Homerboy]

wait... your PC3200 is at 249Mhz?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
wait... your PC3200 is at 249Mhz?

that's possible i have some cas3 pc3200 crucial running at 250mhz 1T.