How good can a 3400+ Newcastle Overclock with Watercooling?

[musclecarman1]

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I am building a gaming machine with some spare parts I bought on eBay. I have an AMD 64 3400+ Newcastle (2.4GHZ, 512kb cache) socket 754. I will not upgrade this system anytime soon, so I am not going to socket 939. It came with a crappy nforce3 150 mobo and I wanted to upgrade. I was thinking an Asus K8N-E Deluxe or a MSI K8N NEO PLATINUM. I like the Asus better but I can get the MSI for under $100 after rebates. The cheapest Asus I found cost $137 shipped. I am contemplating if I should go with an nforce3 250 board or wait for a nforce4 socket 754 motherboard. What do you guys think? Also, is it worth overclocking this cpu? I have a swiftech watercooling system on a 2.8GHz Prescott that I can switch over. What kind of clock speeds can I get with watercooling? And last, should I use the Kingston HyperX DDR500(3-4-4-8) from my Pentium 4 rig, or some Geil DDR400 that has lower latentcies(2.5-3-3-6) I think?

 

[rammstein junkie]

The DFI lanparty is one of the best if not the best overclocking boards for socket 754 look up the AT review of it. Also about the expected over clock there isnt one you may have a chip that will run at a really high clock speed and maby you wont. Lastly with the ram it depends on how high you want to over clock and if you want to run your ram fsb one to one or as a ratio...

 

[musclecarman1]

Can anyone hit me up with any links to articles showing some 3400+ Newcastle OC's? I haven't really found any. Thanks.

 

[AMDbloke]

I dont think the 3400+ 64 OCs well cuz its nearer to the peak of the newcastle line, but im sure it can go a couple hundred Mhz faster easily, but i doubt +400-500 Mhz overclocks.

Look into the board i got, Asrock Combo-Z, good for 754s and 939s. Definitely worth the look.

 

[musclecarman1]

Some guy in another forum says he got his fx55 up to 3GHz with watercooling. I know it's not the same core or clock speed but does anyone think I can get my 3400+ to 2.7-2.8GHz? I would be happy with 2.6GHz. Its just a thought.

 

[SrGuapo]

Originally posted by: musclecarman1
Some guy in another forum says he got his fx55 up to 3GHz with watercooling. I know it's not the same core or clock speed but does anyone think I can get my 3400+ to 2.7-2.8GHz? I would be happy with 2.6GHz. Its just a thought.

I doubt it... The 3400+ is already clocked pretty high for a newcastle core, so I don't think it will get more than a couple hundred MHz...

 

[acivick]

Anything past 2.5-2.6GHz is pretty hard to do on the 754 NCs unfortunately, no matter what you're using to cool it. On the up side, it is still screaming fast at those speeds. In most cases you probably won't even notice any difference in speed. Remember, even if you got it up to 2.7, it's still barely a 10% increase in speed.