Overclocking an Athlon64 3700+?

[Dorkenstein]

Are there any guides for doing it reliably or has anyone here done it? Or is this processor a bad overclocker? This is socket 754 by the way. Thanks.

 

[Stumps]

hmmm 3700+ skt 754, IIRC thats a Newcastle core...I'm not sure but I beleive that they are only fair overclockers.

If I was you I would sell you 3700+ and get hold a 3000+ venice core (E3 or E6) if you want to overclock on the Skt 754 platform.

I got my 3000+ up to 2.87ghz@1.525v (287 x 10 HT x 3), most of the 3000+'s I tried before settling on the one I'm using now(I work in a PC store so I just went through a batch of them, about 15 or so trying to find the best overclocker) would reach around 2.5-2.6+ ghz at 1.5v.

 

[CKXP]

OP your 3700 should be a Clawhammer core, and aren't the best overclockers...I'm guessing maybe 2.6ghz+ with good air cooling.

If I was you I would sell you 3700+ and get hold a 3000+ venice core (E3 or E6) if you want to overclock on the Skt 754 platform.

agreed, or if your search around you might be able to get a hold of mobile s754 with a "Newark" core...now those tend to be great OCing chips.

 

[gello99]

I had a 3700 754 clawhammer. I had it at 2.7 stable on air, 2.95 windows boot. 11x265 with a mem divider to run patriot xbl 9:10 on dfi lanparty ut. i say keep the chip

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: gello99
I had a 3700 754 clawhammer. I had it at 2.7 stable on air, 2.95 windows boot. 11x265 with a mem divider to run patriot xbl 9:10 on dfi lanparty ut. i say keep the chip

I still have mine, and it also does 2.7 Ghz, though that required loads of voltage. It would do 2.6 easily, though. And I don't think getting rid of it would be all that great of an idea, unless you'd apply the money you get from it toward a Core 2 Duo system.

Even if yours will only do 2.6 Ghz, you'd have to buy both a new motherboard and a new processor, to be able to use a Skt 939 chip, and if it's a Venice 3000, you'd have to hit at least 2.7 Ghz with it, to equal your 3700 @ 2.6 Ghz, performance-wise.

edit: I forgot to answer your original question! Here are two good links to overclocking A64's: 1) extreme newbie guide, and a much better guide. Note that on the first guide, the guy doesn't know what he's talking about, when it comes to boards with the K8T800 chipset not having a PCI/AGP lock. The locks just work differently on those boards, than on an nForce 3/4 board.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: gello99
I had a 3700 754 clawhammer. I had it at 2.7 stable on air, 2.95 windows boot. 11x265 with a mem divider to run patriot xbl 9:10 on dfi lanparty ut. i say keep the chip

I still have mine, and it also does 2.7 Ghz, though that required loads of voltage. It would do 2.6 easily, though. And I don't think getting rid of it would be all that great of an idea, unless you'd apply the money you get from it toward a Core 2 Duo system.

Even if yours will only do 2.6 Ghz, you'd have to buy both a new motherboard and a new processor, to be able to use a Skt 939 chip, and if it's a Venice 3000, you'd have to hit at least 2.7 Ghz with it, to equal your 3700 @ 2.6 Ghz, performance-wise.

edit: I forgot to answer your original question! Here are two good links to overclocking A64's: 1) extreme newbie guide, and a much better guide. Note that on the first guide, the guy doesn't know what he's talking about, when it comes to boards with the K8T800 chipset not having a PCI/AGP lock. The locks just work differently on those boards, than on an nForce 3/4 board.

No, the Venice core A64's also came in skt 754, mine is a E6 venice 3000+.

the Skt 754 venice went up to the 3400+, the last of the 3700+'s were Newcastles.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Stumps
No, the Venice core A64's also came in skt 754, mine is a E6 venice 3000+.

the Skt 754 venice went up to the 3400+, the last of the 3700+'s were Newcastles.

Ahh, I knew that, but had forgotten it. Yeah, and I hear that the Venice 3400's overclocked very well, up to 2.7-2.8 Ghz. Of course, that would only be the equivalent of 2.6-2.7 Ghz with his 3700, but it would be slightly faster, and considerably cooler.

 

[Stumps]

the only difference between the 3400+ and 3700+ in the skt 754 is the cache, both run at 2.4ghz but the 3700+ has 1mb L2, the 3400+ only has 512kb L2, there is barely 5% difference in speed between them at stock speed.

the 3700+ in skt 754 are very ordinary overclockers, 2.6ghz is a very good OC for a Newcastle based 3700+ but requires fairly decent cooling, most skt 754 venice's easily do 2.5-2.6ghz(at least in my experiences with them) with stock cooling.

even a 3000+@2.7-2.8ghz would smoke a 3700+@2.6ghz with considerably ease.

My 3000+@2.87ghz benches faster than a 939 based 4000+, according to sisoft sandra.