Overclock Athlon 64 3000

[tincaman]

I have got two of these off Ebay, one green one brown, need a cheap overclocking board to go with them.
What can I realistically expect to get out of them with standard PC3200 ram?

[sawyen]

1:1 OC using standard stuff would be torture... if your running 266MHz divider.. realistic OC would be around 2.5Ghz on a decent board..

ABIT AN8, DFI series are all good ones..

AV8 and Neo2 Plat if your doing AGP..

[aBuLhAgaG]

Venice cores seem to oc pretty well, the winchesters have serious issues overclocking on MSI nforce4 boards though...

aBuLhAgaG

[BUFF]

above recommendations good for 939.
If 754 ABIT NF8, DFI nF3 250Gb.

[Wyoming]

How much did each CPU set you back?

[tincaman]

£105 delivered for the pair, both 754 pins

[kevpuk]

DFI 'boards are certainly replete with O/C BIOS settings, also consider the Asus K8V Deluxe......MSI/ABit too

[tincaman]

Thanks for your help, I have bought a secondhand Asus K8V SE Deluxe just need to get my head round all the settings!

[BUFF]

I have bought a secondhand Asus K8V SE Deluxe

Not a great overclocking board - no AGP/PCI locks.

[sawyen]

Thanks for your help, I have bought a secondhand Asus K8V SE Deluxe just need to get my head round all the settings!

These wont get you very far... 20 maybe 25 MHz above default HTT thanks to its non-existant AGP lock.. that'll translate to a measly 2.2Ghz for your 754 3000+ chips... Don't know if you're happy with that..

[Reaps]

I just received a Venice 3000, Asrock Dual-Sata2 (agp & pcie) and Thermalright XP-120 (with akasa 120 fan) and it overclocks like a champ.

I'm currently sitting at prime stable 2430Mhz @ stock volts and that's with Geil value pc3200 ram.

The settings i used:

HTT: 270Mhz
CPU Multi: 9 (default)
CPU Volt: 1.4v
HTT-CPU Multi: 4x (800Mhz)
Memory: DDR333 (224Mhz actual)
Timings: CL3 8-4-4 @ 1T (stock)

Temps are 38C load

Soon as Asrock release a bios that allows me/anyone to get passed 270 i'll be heading for 2.7Ghz because right now even 271 doesn't boot which is just silly. The limit for the Vcore is 1.45 on the asrock board but you can do a mod to get it to 1.5/55 which would allow serious overclocking. It's a Great board anyway.

Oh and i'm looking forward to receiving my 2Gb Corsair Twinx CL2 memory today Although i won't be able to fit it until late tonight (damnit).