Anonfriend

[Anonfriend]

Can anyone spare some time to assist a newbie to oveclocking.

I have been building PC's for 15 years but have never overclocked before.

I have on recommendation just bought the following:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Socket 939, Manchester, 2x 2.0GHz, 1MB Cache.

ASUS A8N-E NF4 Ultra, S939, PCI-E (x16), DDR 400, SATA II, SATA/IDE RAID, ATX

HFT-CLP0114 Thermaltake CL-P0114 Big Typhoon heatpipe CPU Cooler

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound for CPU and Chipset Coolers

1 GB (2 x 512MB) Corsair XMS, DDR PC3200 (400), 184 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 2-3-3-6

Thanks,

Matt

 

[FarFarAway]

Hey mate!

Welcome to the forums :wavey:

Whats up with the rig?

Make a new thread in the AMD section and we'll see what we can do to help

 

[WC Annihilus]

Ello ello! :wavey:

 

[Anonfriend]

I have not yet even received the bits in the mail, expecting them on wednesday. Easy enough to put together for me although I have no idea how to max the performance from what I have bought.

I am not interested in the graphics side of things, even though i got a 256MB card to keep my speed up. I am after pure processing speed and gather that I can get 4800 from the chip i bought.

Anyone got any specific advice?

 

[Anonfriend]

Please see my profile for my machine specs.

 

[Stranger]

Hello Anonfriend and welcome along

 

[Anonfriend]

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[Dav0s]

firstly i can see your psu stopping you from overclocking very far, which seems a sham elooking at the rest of your comp

 

[FarFarAway]

Agreed. Get rid of that XClio and get something stable

 

[PV5150]

Hello Anonfriend and welcome to OC3D Forum :wavey: Feel free to post any questions you may have

 

[Anonfriend]

Psu

Why would I need more than 480W?

I believe a 30% tolerance is the recommended level and I thought the AMD X2's were highly efficient when it comes to Wattage.

If you have any specific recommendations I would be very interested to hear them.

Thanks.

 

[FarFarAway]

Depends on what PSU you use tbh.

If it's a good PSU then 480 may be anough. Don't believe wattage calculators as they are naff

I would not say that an XClio will be stable.

For instance: when we put an Ebuyer 600w PSU under load it was meant to be able to cope with:

 

[Nagaru]

I beleive what they are refering to is that fact that it is not a well known powersupply and is therefore of questionable quality, and this can cause your overclock to be lower.

 

[FarFarAway]

I beleive what they are refering to is that fact that it is not a well known powersupply and is therefore of questionable quality, and this can cause your overclock to be lower.

Not just that - it can cause total system instability. It may work now but whether it is still stable in two weeks time is another thing.

 

[Nagaru]

True whenever I build a system I try and go overboard on the powersupply, they always seem stable.

 

[WC Annihilus]

IIRC XClio actually make some decent PSUs. Obviously not amazing one's like PCP&C and Silverstone, but decent budget PSUs nonetheless. You'd have to look over at Hard Forum though. I don't have time to check myself atm.