What board to use??

[Troyd]

I am trying to build an OC system. I plan to use a Barton 2500. I also have a ATI 9600XT. What motherboard and ram should I use?

 

[Jeff7181]

The DFI Infinity is pretty popular. Very overclocking friendly from what I hear. Then there's always the Abit NF7-S. My Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev. 2.0 is still going strong... perfectly stable with a 233 MHz FSB too (although I run it at 216 for CPU and RAM compatability).

 

[Troyd]

What are you system specs? Are those screen shots taken with the pc that is running on the A7N8X Deluxe? What ram are you using? Thanks

 

[Jeff7181]

I have a Mobile XP2500 @ 2.48 GHz with Mushkin PC3500 Level 1 RAM on an A7N8X Deluxe with a 9800 Pro (at stock speeds now cause Doom 3 doesn't like more than a 5 MHz overclock on the core). FSB is 216, RAM is running in sync at 2-3-3-11.

 

[Troyd]

are you using an air cooled setup or water cooled?

 

[Jeff7181]

Air... Thermalright SK-7 with Panaflo 80mm fan.

 

[Troyd]

thanks for the info.