Wanting to get back in to overclocking

[slightlyhuman]

I haven't overclocked since the 1700+ tbred days...

I've had a 3200+ 939 for some time now and I'm wanting to get back into it.

I'm an AMD fan so no Pentium stuff for me. C2D looks nice but I can't afford that. What chips are overclocking decent these days? I'm not looking for the latest and greatest. The opterons look to be like th OC procs these days, is that right?

Also, what about ram? I'm going over to DDR2 on my next mobo/ram purchase. I've had corsair value ram for the last few years. What ram is good and at the same time, decent priced?


I was looking into an AM2 setup. Any certain cpus I should look at? Do they still do the stepping?

Word!

 

[996GT2]

AM2 wise....go for the X2 Brisbane 3600+...super cheap 65nm chip that should be able to do 2.6 GHz on air cooling.

 

[bryanW1995]

yes, I almost ditched my opteron 180 system to get a tforce 550 mobo for $50 and 3600+ for $65 a couple of months ago. I don't know if that mobo is still available but it has a great oc rep if it is. brisbane 3600+ is 1.9 ghz default, you should get around 2.6 on stock cooling and closer to 2.8-3 with a decent cooler.

in fact, it would be difficult to go wrong with 996gt2's system other than the msi mobo. I have heard great things about corsair mem and have 2 sticks of 4-4-4-12 800 that go well over 1000, but I've heard that gskill is great, too.

 

[tooriski]

i got back into OC after years, i had a xp2500 or was it 2400 that i use to overclock weith a ti4200.............everytime i press F10 to save the bios and restart it brings back old memories, trust me its still the same, all thats changed is the cpu models, but underneath its still the same

 

[imported_Husky55]

Originally posted by: DP
I haven't overclocked since the 1700+ tbred days...

I've had a 3200+ 939 for some time now and I'm wanting to get back into it.



Word!

That wasn't so long ago, was it? Going from 3200 and 939 to a dual core will give you very significant performance boost at a very minimum cost. And the memory costs have really come down from their peaks.

Really I wished I am in your shoes now, but being one who continuously looking for new technologies, I forgot all the self inflicted pains I submitted myself to in addition to the wasted money down the drain.