Good Cheap Overclocking Socket 754 Board

[Blinkme323]

Hi guys, I am going to buy a Sempron 2600 and overclock it. I am building a budget combo for under $150 and it got VERY good results on XBIT when overclcoked. At 2.5ghz, it beat out an A64 3400 in pretty much every test. I can get the proccesor for $75 which gives me another $75 for the motherboard. I have pc3200 and would like to have a good motherboard that has a ram divider and pci lock. I am shooting for 300 bus and 2.4ghz. What motherboard will let me do that for that price. I was thinking about getting this one, what do you think?

http://www.chiefvalue.com/app/productdetails.asp?submit=property&item=13-123-219

 

[imported_Kensai]

I hope you're not aiming for 5 X 300. That's a pretty hard combination. I'm perfonally running HTT at 1400.
That Epox board is a fair board though I'd perfer a DFI board with MOSFET heatsinks for overclocking. An MSI board would be okay too.

 

[Blinkme323]

I have never overclocked an Athlon 64 or sempron, only an old Barton which was different. I don't know too much about the new ones. XBIT said with 1.5v and stock cooler, it can hit 300X8 though for 2.4ghz.

 

[Blinkme323]

How is this:

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4153863?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

 

[Blinkme323]

Also, do you think that this is a legitimate test by XBIT. The new Sempron when overclocked with the stock cooler dusts A64 3400's. It is what made me decide to go with the Sempron.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-2600_9.html

 

[Peter]

You mean 300 system clock? HTT is at least 800 anyway ...