Hello,
I bought an Athlon 3000+ last year with the intention of building a new PC. However I never got around to it and am only now looking to put something together (after stumbling across the cpu in my desk drawer) . My 3000+ is still in the box and I was thinking about buying something a bit faster- perhaps a 3500+ or 3700+
Reading through the foums to get an idea of how much of a speed increase i might get in gaming- it seems like it might be better to OC my 3000+ and invest the extra dollars in my new video card.
As I understand it (reading through AT forums), I have a week 17, E3 Athlon 64 which are reasonably good overclockers(stepping below).
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I know OC is never guaranteed- but do i have a reasonable chance of getting this up to 3500+ performance? If not i'll sell it before I open the box.
(assume that I will have a good mobo, Psu, cooler etc as i will be buying all of these new)
I bought an Athlon 3000+ last year with the intention of building a new PC. However I never got around to it and am only now looking to put something together (after stumbling across the cpu in my desk drawer) . My 3000+ is still in the box and I was thinking about buying something a bit faster- perhaps a 3500+ or 3700+
Reading through the foums to get an idea of how much of a speed increase i might get in gaming- it seems like it might be better to OC my 3000+ and invest the extra dollars in my new video card.
As I understand it (reading through AT forums), I have a week 17, E3 Athlon 64 which are reasonably good overclockers(stepping below).
ADA3000AA4BP
LBBLE 0517EPMW
Z644008E510ZZ
I know OC is never guaranteed- but do i have a reasonable chance of getting this up to 3500+ performance? If not i'll sell it before I open the box.
(assume that I will have a good mobo, Psu, cooler etc as i will be buying all of these new)