HELP Overclocking a AMD 64 3200+ with a K8N-e Deluxe

[spacetroie]

Hello geniuses,
I just bought an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe plus an Athlon 64 3200+. Does anyone know how to overclock this bad boy? I currently have a P4 2.4 Ghz and my benchmark score is 5280. I just wanna surpass that. I haven't benchmarked my new AMD board yet. I need tips on how to optimize this.
Before I overclock my AMD, what's the best cooling system out there. I don't like external ones that you have to open the side of your case. I want something that's clean that comes from the back of your tower.
Any suggestions on a PSU? (silent please) and also im trying to maintain a blue colorl. You'll see the final design of everything once i get the specs done right. Thanks Yall!

 

[whitelight]

blue psu - enermax noisetaker series.

by cooling system, do you mean heatsink? if so, i'd recommended the thermalright xp120 or xp90.

 

[eVaoVe]

I hear the Zalman AlCu HS is a good one

 

[540mb]

What is your budget? That's the biggest factor in how good your cooling is going to be.

 

[spacetroie]

budget for the cooling is prolly about 150-200

 

[spacetroie]

cooling system meaning liquid cooling. i don't want the messy ones wherin you have to open the side of the case so that it could connect the tubes to a reservoir. i need something that's clean. someting like the tubes come form the back of the tower connecting to an external one. i saw the koolance but i just didn't like the desgin.

 

[540mb]

For 150-200 you are going to have to build your own water cooling system. Any kit below 200 is not going to give you really really good cooling.

 

[spacetroie]

really? so what do you suggest?

 

[spacetroie]

now that i have the k8n-e deluxe asus mobo and an a64 3200+. what else do i need to do to make this reach it's peak performance? any suggestions on RAMs? hard drive? i already have a 5900 geforce 128MB. do you think it's worth it to go for the 256MB ones?

 

[igblack]

first of all i have water cooling and can tell u to get the dangerden a64 block that is the best one on the market. i also have a tank-o-matic which i had to externaly mount on the back of my case, but it looks killer and is sturdy on the back. if u get a dremel u can cut the top of ur case and mount the radiator in the inside and have the cooling (by the fan) come on the outside so that it is still inside but will look cool. thats what i had to do.

www.dangerden.com


and www.voyeurmods.com

are ur best bets for the parts you will need to build ur water cooling kit

good luck

 

[spacetroie]

thanks. igblack.

 

[spacetroie]

i have a question, how long will it take asus to email you if you RMA your mobo? doesnt it suppose to be either that same day? or the next day? and how long will it take until you get the board back?

 

[spacetroie]

when you guys RMA your mobo's do you send only the mobo? no screws no cables no nohing just the mobo? will ups do the packaging for you or you have to do it yourself? thanks yall.

 

[jinu117]

PSU, OCZ powerstream. Bar none so far from what I see. Only challenger left is PCP which is about $100 more. Next in my list usually is enermax noisetaker except... it doesn't work with OCZ DDR booster.
Memory, OCZ 3200-3500-3700 EB. Worth every penny for A64.
K8N-E is awesome board granted you modify few things... such as vddr and vcore mod (probably won't need vcore mod with H2O really though, vddr mod is highly recommended in my book though as it only supplies up to 2.7v or 2.8v (only on rev 1.05 board with newest bios)
Hdd... raptor 74gb is always good choice granted you don't feel limited by its size. Othewise grab any decent 7200 RPM out there with FDB (lower noise, seagate does use them, hitachi does too)
Heard some horror stories about asus RMA... wouldn't count on it.
Quite frankly though, best bet on increasing your over all gaming experience will come from upgrading the GPU to something like 6800GT... best bang for buck out of anything I am suggesting here. (If you are talking about non gaming performance... you must be running something really heavy on your system to be worried about such as CAD/heavy encoding decoding -> should have gone intel )
Now for CPU cooling with budget of what you mentioned, look for used exos which does quite well.
If you want to go semi-custom setup, swiftech have new 120mm kit and their block is just flat out great.
Danger den is quite good but more costly once you add stuff in... (only bought about $3-400 stuff from them so far )

FYI: this is what I had with my rig.

A64 3400 clawhammer (1mb cache 2.2ghz) running 2.45ghz (estimated 2.5-2.7ghz newcastle speed)
Asus K8N-E v-core/v-ddr modded
OCZ powerstream 520W PSU
OCZ 3700 EB 512x2 running 2.5-2-2-10 @ 245mhz (3.15v)
GeForce6800GT (oc'd past ultra speed but backed down atm) -> anyone know vddr mod on this?
CPU GPU cooled by Exos with CPU-300G and GPU-180.

Right now, waiting for my 2nd hand (or 3rd hand) prometeia mach I to be repaired and regassed... using Zalman CNPS-7000AlCu atm for CPU and back to stock for GPU. Running only 2.35ghz... (heat constrained... cpu do get hot)

Once I get my mach I back (could be today, could be monday), I am hoping to approach 2.7ghz... #1 problem I've seen with A64 so far is the heat it generates, think the architecture is more suceptible to heat than say northwood when OC'ing.

Order of what I would do is get 6800GT than work on rest as $$$ becomes avail.