Completely failed to follow this thread

Mines sitting at 3.66 odd - its been on the trip to 4 and its relatively easy to get there - was only there for 30 minutes though - my cooler only does 150W

What motherboard have you got it on?

Ive gone for an ASUS P5SD2-X myself, as I still have an AGP vga card I want to keep.

Seems like a good board and I like ASUS kit, so I hope it goes well, just need to find a decent cooler, the Freezer 7 seems like the front runner at the moment.

I hope this lives upto its reputation regarding performance.

Cheers
Tongy

Quote from: funkychicken9000Ive grown out of overclocking.  All the watercooling in the world cant stop it heating your room up silly amounts, and in this weather Id rather be running a f***ing epia.

Open the window and stick the radiators outside

Its how I used to do it on hot days

Quote from: TongyWhat motherboard have you got it on?

Ive gone for an ASUS P5SD2-X myself, as I still have an AGP vga card I want to keep.

Seems like a good board and I like ASUS kit, so I hope it goes well, just need to find a decent cooler, the Freezer 7 seems like the front runner at the moment.

I hope this lives upto its reputation regarding performance.

Cheers
Tongy

I run it on an Asus P5WD2-E board myself. Its not my main pc - more an experiment!

Now that is a nice board, about 130 quid.

I will try it out as ASUS are the best at the moment. I have my Sempron on a K8U-X and its pretty good, bit slow but got some good features.

Cheers
Tongy

Quote from: TongyAgain, Damn you you guys, damn Tomshardware and everyone else, you have made a loyal AMD guy turn to the darkside.

Cheers
Tongy

Just let us know how you get on

Quote from: Deaths HeadApparently the Asrock 775i65G may be a good match up with this cpu.  These processors are fsb limited so going with DDR over DDR2 is not going to hurt you too much.  Someone with both configurations claims only a 1~% difference in scores.  If you can find rev 2 pcb then you get a board which is future proof, it will be compatible with Conroe...
http://www.asrock.com.tw/product/775i65G.cn.htm

That board is only Ã,£30 now and you reckon its up to the job? Cant seem to find any reviews of it in action

i dont want heavy overclocking just about 3ghz, no point in getting a super duper board as after all this is a budget project

A quick question as this is a bit over my head...

If I run PC3200 (DDR400) RAM and shove the FSB to 200 will I be ok or will I be causing a bottleneck ?

Im seriously consider this as an upgrade path but I want to minimise my outlay, so new RAM is out of the question (for now)...

Not really, youre running the RAM at 200MHz and the CPU bus is going at 200MHz. If the RAM was slower than the FSB then yes, bottleneck ahoy. However it isnt so youre fine.

Cheers, thats what I thought but I started to convince myself otherwise after reading way too much about OCing the chip with FSB and multiplers

lol, Im such a nub OCer

Mines been running at 3.8GHz steady for about 2 months now.

What HSF are you using (or are you WC) and what sort of temps are you hitting ?

Ill be quite happy to just push it upto 3ghz if I can keep it on a stock HSF

After a bit of running in where high(ish) temperatures of around 58-60 degrees were reached, I am not running at low 50s @ 3.8GHz on an Arctic cooling freezer pro 7 HSF under running load (Eg watching HDTV, running superPI etc etc)

Cheers m8

Ill see what I can get out of it on the stock HSF then, I dont really want to have to install a cyclone in there to keep it cool

That freezer 7, imo is pretty quiet.

However, I do have a 3550, a 3600 and an asterisk box running underneath it 24/7..