Looking For Some Minor Performance Gains

[wclong]

Hello!

Awesome forum you guys have here. I have been lurking around and I have found a lot of great info here. I just ordered a 420 Watt (12v 15A + 12v 14A) Enermax Noisetaker (EG425P-VE-SFMA) from NewEgg ($66) and hopefully it will arrive soon so I can quit limping around on this In-Win 300 Watter that came with my case! Thanks to everyone for the great posts on PSU's.

I am looking for some slight (dare I call them safe) performance mods I can make to squeeze a little more juice out of this proc I have. Its a AMD64 3200+ NewCastle (Socket 754). I'd like to retain the stock heatsink+fan combo if possible.

The rest of the info on my rig is in my signature. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

[ts3433]

Your DFI board should allow for easy overclocks, and 3400+ speed is only 200MHz away. If what you're experiencing is stuttering in games, though, you should invest in another stick of RAM.

 

[wclong]

Its not gaming that I am concerned about. I would just like to get as much processing power as I can get with the stock fan and heatsink. I am not a super OC'er, so any performance gain over stock is great in my mind.

 

[ts3433]

Oh.... what applications are you looking for a speed boost in, specifically? A 3200+ is a damn fast chip by itself.

 

[wclong]

Various. Media Encoding (mainly DivX, WM Encoder), and anything that runs under Win2k3 64 Bit. I plan to get some games loaded on this machine and I am a sucker for benchmarks. I am not a hardcore gamer though, so most of the titles I play are older ones (Halo PC, UT, UT2004, etc.)