Newcastle 3500+

[stfrances]

I RMA'ed my dead winchester and amd was out of stock and they offered the Newcastle 3500+ and just got it. Here are the numbers, CBASC 0417xpmw, I know its last year week 17, the advice I am looking for is that will a water cooling be justified for this particular cpu? Or can I achieve a max stable overclock with just a highend hsf? Your help will save me the time to try and overclock with air against water.

 

[Sentential]

Thats a reject FX55. Lots of guys have had significant sucess since your silicon is DSL based and not normal SOI/SSDOI

 

[Promethply]

I've got a Newcastle 3500+, and in my aircooled system, it only reaches 2585MHz stable at 1.5V (default voltage) using the stock fan & heatsink.

 

[stfrances]

Sentential, I take that as a positive. This is my first amd build and plan to oc. I have done some reading throughout the forum and it seems that the amd's top out at the most if you are lucky at 2.6, some have achieved above that, and some have not been able to go beyond 2.4 at stable range. My only concern is that if it would be cost effective to do a water cooled set up. I have read many threads with their highend hsf and been able to go above the 2.4 range. Maybe I should get the best board for the 939 then instead?

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: stfrances
Sentential, I take that as a positive.

Yea its just like the Thorton core, but better. Nothin more than a cache disabled Clawhammer. You should get past 2.6 without much hassle unlike alot of Winchesters and Newcastles

As for cooling stick with air. You'll wind up maxing that CPU with about 1.7v or so and that is easily managed by an XP120 and the like

 

[stfrances]

Thanks man, its just that I already have a complete H20 set, and I am waiting for the arrival of my DFI board, I went and bought the top end of the boards, should be here next week. How about memory stix, got myself a gig of corsair XLPro thats on my p4 system and got a spare of a gig of crucial value ram, I read on the forums that the A64 does not need a highend memory to run them at a decent overclock.