Overclocked Athlon 64

[reggie_da_man]

So I finally decided to overclock my Athlon 64 3000 today. I kid of did it in a rush, but i got it windows stable at 2.66GHz! Bios stable at 3.015GHZ. Not bad for having value ram, there are still many tweaks to go and I'll post again when I have screenshots.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

What kind of 3000+???? Socket 754? 939? core?

 

[reggie_da_man]

It's a socket 939, venice core. I'm away for new years but I should be back tonight. I have 512MB of OCZ value ram and I have memory divider set at 1:2. Does any know of any good ram that can hit like 330 MHz?

 

[003]

Yeah, but it's not cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231015

 

[reggie_da_man]

Here are some screenshots:

http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=1/018380991.jpg&s=x11 ...in this one almost all the clocks have disappeared for some reason. What's up with that?


http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=1/018395568.jpg&s=x11 ...in this one the ram is supposed to be running at 228 but it's only running
189MHz, what gives?

It's a bit unstable at 2.7GHz but I think I can live with it at 2.655GHz. It's running on stock cooling and idles at 30. I haven't put it under full load yet because I don't have time. Any suggestions on how to get it up to 2.7GHz, I'm thinking the ram is killing me here.

EDIT: I have 1 case fan and that's on the side of the case.

 

[Ridlyn]

have you tried upping the voltage.

 

[reggie_da_man]

I've got the voltage at almost 1.7V. I've also got the chipset voltage at either 1.65 or 1.7V.

 

[reggie_da_man]

I get the feeling that the voltage that I'm using is a tad to high, it hits 1.78V at one point.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Sounds like a PSU problem, and you have the same ram as i do, just the 1gb version, it don't wanna overclock at all, its OCZs "value ram"....

 

[reggie_da_man]

A PSU problem? Really? That sucks, I just bought the Thermaltake TR2-430W. I know it's not the best but I don't even have a good video card in that system. I'm running on a 2MB PCI card waiting for my 6800GS to arrive. With one hard drive, a CD-Burner.