NEED ADVICE-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and DFI NF4 SLi-DR Expert

[BigAndy]

Could i go higher:? I overclocked my Athlon 64 3200+ and highest spot i did hit was 2.85GHz:B . But it wasen't stable, so i went back to 2.8GHz. I completed CustomPC benchmark with overall score 1.15, as well i was running CPU Burn-in v1.0 (100% load) for six hours with no problems. Temperatures for 2.8GHz under 100% load was: CPU 41C, PWM 42C and chipset 37C. Unfortunately Prime95 was crashing at 1st minute . I tried 2.75GHz but Prime95 crashed after 4 minutes. So finaly i steped back to 2.7GHz and so far seems like it's working fine.

FSB 270MHZ multiplier x10.0

Voltage: CPU 1.66V, DRAM 2.67V, NB 1.64V (according the Smartguardian)

I didn't change any others setings (rest of setings is default).

Is there any way to do some fine tuning to get my PC stable at 2.8GHz or even higher?

Or even make my memory run faster

It's my 1st PC ever i'm overclocking, so any advice would be much appreciate.

My rig:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice core E6

1GB (2x512) Corsair XMS4400C25 (a.k.a. TwinX 1024-4400C25) 2.5-4-4-8

DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLi-DR Expert

Gigabyte G-Power Pro-cooler

Enermax Noisetaker 600W (EG701AX-VE(W))-PSU

Sparkle GeForce 6800 GS

THANK YOU FOR ADVICE!

 

[justin]

you could probably tweak your ram a little? there are guides around, do a search for overcloking on this forum. Good luck!

 

[BigAndy]

Thanks Man

 

[stocky]

Your system seems top spec - I only quite recently swapped to AMD for a play with the SLI-DR, which was excellent but with a X2 4800 X2 - so if you've got the budget perhaps an upgrade to an X2 would be nice

I hear that the 3800's seem to clock very well - so seem to be good bang for buck/ pound

 

[BigAndy]

You see, this is the 1st system ever i built, so i decided to buy some cheaper CPU to see how things go. I read before that 3200+ with Venice core is good overclocker, so i decided to try it. And at the end of day i got out from it 2.8 GHZ with air, i think it's not bad at all for 1st time:B

 

[stocky]

That's a nice clock and system, especially for a first timer

I doubt you'll get much more out of it on air, I know that the Opterons can do around 3GHz on air so that's another option if you're looking for even more performance? The next just would be the dual cores as I mentioned before. Although saying this, the only reason I can think you'd want to change the CPU would be to either show off with benchies, or for encoding!

 

[BigAndy]

Yes, i think as well, i won't be able to go any higher, but at the moment i'll stick with this one, but no doubt i'll try some dual core CPU in future and water cooling as well .

 

[clone38]

Slap a mach 2 gt on there and go for it

 

[BigAndy]

Can't afford at the moment, but one day...

 

[clone38]

Best thing i ever did,forget water go ice,im sure phil will help empty your pockets .

I have the same board as you running my X2 4800@3GHz -20c,ive seen the X2 3800 do 3ghz also.

 

[BigAndy]

Best thing i ever did,forget water go ice,im sure phil will help empty your pockets .

I have the same board as you running my X2 4800@3GHz -20c,ive seen the X2 3800 do 3ghz also.

I'm still on AIR .

And who is Phil? Somebody from EP-UK?

 

[fatty]

Phil is the owner of EP-UK great guy ring him and have a chat about yer needs I am sure he can help you oot

 

[cheap]

sell your cpu on here or ebay. do a little stepping reserch and buy a more overclockable cpu. opteron 146 and 148 can be good clockers if you can find a golden stepping. this would probably be the cheapest way of more mhz.

 

[BigAndy]

I'll sell not only CPU, but whole my rig , because i'm planing to build new one, besed on water coooling (TEC probably) and will go for something like FX-57 or FX-60. Anyway, i'll do some investigation 1st and will let know about it later on.

If i'll be able to sort out my finance then new rig gonna be MASSIVE :B .

But so far, Thanks Everybody .