Newcastle 3200+ - What are its limits on stock cooling?

[alisajid]

I'm running my 3200+ @ 2.4 with 10x multiplier on a 240MHz HT. I want to explore what it can do further, but I have crappy RAM that can't do more than 200MHz, no matter the timings.

If I get decent sticks, e.g., Crucial Ballistix DDR500, would I reasonably be able to hit 2.5GHz @ 250x10 (on air?)

I'm guessing 2.75 (250x11) would not be really possible?

 

[gdEric]

Ugh... Don't get Ballistix PC4000/DDR500 unless you're prepared for a good 50% chance that they won't overclock past about 208MHz (DDR412) at ANY timings. Good thing Crucial has that 30-day money back guarantee, because I'm sure a lot of people are using it right now.

Right now, I'm looking at:
OCZ PC3700 Gold rev3
OCZ PC3200 Platinum rev2
OCZ EB3x00 - NOT, since apparantly nobody ever has it in stock anywhere
Adata PC4200 Hyperram

I don't know about you, but I'm looking at 2x512MB, since games and other software just isn't very happy with only 512MB under XP. Although this is asked a million times, does anybody have a good recommendation with something that's _in stock_? I'm personally trying to target good timings at around 240-250MHz, as this seems to be the sweet spot that benchmarks push people towards on A64, unless you have phase-change cooling or whatever and massive voltage to push ram up to 300+... which I don't.

 

[alisajid]

Originally posted by: gdEric
Ugh... Don't get Ballistix PC4000/DDR500 unless you're prepared for a good 50% chance that they won't overclock past about 208MHz (DDR412) at ANY timings. Good thing Crucial has that 30-day money back guarantee, because I'm sure a lot of people are using it right now.

Right now, I'm looking at:
OCZ PC3700 Gold rev3
OCZ PC3200 Platinum rev2
OCZ EB3x00 - NOT, since apparantly nobody ever has it in stock anywhere
Adata PC4200 Hyperram

I don't know about you, but I'm looking at 2x512MB, since games and other software just isn't very happy with only 512MB under XP. Although this is asked a million times, does anybody have a good recommendation with something that's _in stock_? I'm personally trying to target good timings at around 240-250MHz, as this seems to be the sweet spot that benchmarks push people towards on A64, unless you have phase-change cooling or whatever and massive voltage to push ram up to 300+... which I don't.

Could you provide any linkage related to problems with Ballistix memory. The reviews I've read so far are filled with praise.

 

[gdEric]

Anand's review was what led me to get it in the first place. It seems like a lot of people get great results, and the rest (like me) get really, really bad results. I've read a few threads on Ballistix at Overclocker's forums:

http://www.ocforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22

as well as a few here, I think. Do a search. In any case, if you're patient, you can always get some and take the gamble that you'll be one of the lucky ones, and take advantage of their stellar 30-day return policy if you aren't.

 

[acivick]

I'm not sure how well you're going to do with stock cooling. My Newcastle 3200+ runs at about 59-60C idle on stock cooling, and even people with better cooling seem to be getting similar results. Make sure you figure out what temp yours is running at before you go OCing it.

 

[kamranziadar]

2.7 no chance

 

[BW86]

2.7 on air is a probably impossible, maybe on water

EDIT: the highest ive seen a a64 is 3071mhz [307x10] with a 2.0vcore and it was on a gigabyte k8n. phase change of course