Help overclocking my athlon 64 3000+

[zxcvb123]

I've been experimenting on overclocking my athlon 3000+ venice and I reached a max stable overclock of 2.25ghz with FSB at 250. My ram's pqi turbo 1gb pc400 and mobo msi k8nneo4-f.

Problem is whenever i try to raise my fsb above 260, prime95 would detect errors already. My temps never seem to go above 35C idle and around 45+ load.

 

[nanaki333]

try raising the vcore

 

[zxcvb123]

Is that advisable at this stage in overclocking?

 

[nanaki333]

if you can't get the system to run stable at higher clocks and your temps are still good, yes.

 

[myocardia]

Lower your RAM speed. Unless your 3000 isn't a Venice core, chances are good you won't need to start adding voltage for quite a few hundred more Mhz.

 

[zxcvb123]

Well I did lower my ram speed when raising fsb. Problem is crashes would start happening when I boot up. :|

 

[myocardia]

Keep your RAM speed low, drop your HT multiplier to 3x, and you should be able to hit at least 2.5 Ghz on stock voltage. Read this thread on how to overclock an Athlon 64.