SO i freaked when I saw Anand's article on the new 90nm technology. Not sure if I had too good of a reason to or not... you decide.
Here's my new System...
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939
MSI neo2 platinum (nforce3 ultra) mobo
2x512 ocz platinum rev 2
(noticing a pattern yet?)
Thermaltake silentcool k8 cooler (same one from anand article)
seagate 160gb sata 7200 rpm drive.
I was able to get close to Anand's settings running stable...
3000+ running @2520 mhz
280 mhz FSB
2.5 4 4 10 1T memory timings
CPU voltage running at 1.472
memory voltage at 1.75
I tried taking the voltages and FSB higher and while it would run and I could get through 3dmark03 ok, it wasn't stable.
I am running an Antec 300w (from the old computer) power supply with a 6800 vanilla... maybe this is why I can't hit Anand's numbers? Either way it's much faster than my old 2000+ thoroughbred that I could only get an 8% overclock out of!! =) So I'm pretty happy. Thoughts anyone? Did I make a huge blunder with this purchase?
Thanks!
Zambien
Here's my new System...
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939
MSI neo2 platinum (nforce3 ultra) mobo
2x512 ocz platinum rev 2
(noticing a pattern yet?)
Thermaltake silentcool k8 cooler (same one from anand article)
seagate 160gb sata 7200 rpm drive.
I was able to get close to Anand's settings running stable...
3000+ running @2520 mhz
280 mhz FSB
2.5 4 4 10 1T memory timings
CPU voltage running at 1.472
memory voltage at 1.75
I tried taking the voltages and FSB higher and while it would run and I could get through 3dmark03 ok, it wasn't stable.
I am running an Antec 300w (from the old computer) power supply with a 6800 vanilla... maybe this is why I can't hit Anand's numbers? Either way it's much faster than my old 2000+ thoroughbred that I could only get an 8% overclock out of!! =) So I'm pretty happy. Thoughts anyone? Did I make a huge blunder with this purchase?
Thanks!
Zambien