Overclocking Stock 64

[Kishan]

Hey guys,
I have a Retail AMD 64 2800+ with the reatil heatsink (with the thermal pad) I have an ASUS K8V SE, and a good case with one exhaust fan(80mm), one side fan (4cm), and a PCI based intake/exhaust undermy vid card 9800 pro flashed to XT, but underclocked since I have stock cooling on that. How much can I OC my cpu, and to what? Thanks for actually reading this and giving me sound advice
Thanks,
Kishan
EDIT: My CPU Temp is around 34 C with normal use, however at 41~42 under high load

 

[chuwawa]

Ok, I have a question pertaining to this:

Do I have to run my RAM at the same frequency as the cpu bus? I could swear that the article on was not....

Do you get a performance hit like in Athlon XPs or is this doable with the 64s now??

Confused =/

 

[nycxandy]

You never know until you try. Every chip is different so just overclock it as high as you can and test for its stability.

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No, you don't have to run it the same and the performance hit will be small.

 

[Evdawg]

You won't get much of an overclock becuz the VIA chipset is NOT a good overclocker. I'm going to sell mine very soon and get the nforce3 250GB board (either Epox or msi board).

See my sig for my overclock

 

[Yanagi]

Your temps are fine, so thats a good start. Just try upping the HTT alittle at a time..

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=299229

theres an A64 overclocking guide aswell, might want to look into that one