Overclocking new build

[nathan]

whats the chance of overclocking this a tad on stock cooling;

AMD Athlon64 3200 Venice

Abit AX8 Motherboard

512mb ram

any thoughts?

 

[FarFarAway]

Yeah you should get a modest OC on that. Maybe around 2.2-2.4GHz...maybe higher depending on the chip.

I'd still get better than stock air tho

Follow Frags guide carefully, checking the temps carefully and report back

Add a divider if the RAM won't go as high

Stick to a 10x multi as unless its real good RAM it won't be worth lowering the multi to 9x

 

[nathan]

they had a deal on this ram, so i got it, it doesnt say a make which is never good :

512MB 6-Layer V-Data PC3200 DDR SDRAM

 

[Dav0s]

nope not good at all, you may have to run a large divider or it wont go above 220mhz

 

[FarFarAway]

nope not good at all, you may have to run a large divider or it wont go above 220mhz

Agreed. BUT you'll be running at better timings (hopefully) and may be able to push those a little lower in that field with a bit of voltage. Though running a big divider does have a disadvantage in bandwidth: the tighter timings and the excellent on-die memory controller of the A64 should mean that the hit won't be too big