- Sep 5, 2001
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Basically this is the system I'm running right now:
ECS nForce 3 board
A64 socket 754 3000+ (newcastle) at default clock
(2) Mushkin 512MB DDR 400 (PC 3200) RAM
I've ran this system for a while and I'm satisfied with it. When I originally built it I used a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink with Arctic Silver in order to put a larger fan on the CPU instead of the noisy OEM one.
I'll likely be upgrading my system late this year so I'd like to push a little more umph from my current build. However, I realize that the Newcastles aren't nearly as overclock friendly as the Venice cores.
Can anyone give me a rough ballpark of what kind of OC I can get if I don't change anything?
Another thing to consider, despite being an nforce 3 board, the ECS motherboard seems to have some overclock settings locked out. At least, when I read that OC guide at the top of this forum, I don't have a lot of the options mentioned. Would nTune be an adequate substitute?
ECS nForce 3 board
A64 socket 754 3000+ (newcastle) at default clock
(2) Mushkin 512MB DDR 400 (PC 3200) RAM
I've ran this system for a while and I'm satisfied with it. When I originally built it I used a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink with Arctic Silver in order to put a larger fan on the CPU instead of the noisy OEM one.
I'll likely be upgrading my system late this year so I'd like to push a little more umph from my current build. However, I realize that the Newcastles aren't nearly as overclock friendly as the Venice cores.
Can anyone give me a rough ballpark of what kind of OC I can get if I don't change anything?
Another thing to consider, despite being an nforce 3 board, the ECS motherboard seems to have some overclock settings locked out. At least, when I read that OC guide at the top of this forum, I don't have a lot of the options mentioned. Would nTune be an adequate substitute?