AMD Athlon64 bit 3000+

Larnica · 24 Nov 2006 at 11:05

Hiya Everyone

Just a quick question

Just wondering, are the "AMD Athlon64 bit 3000+ 754pin Retail CPU ( Newcastle )" chips good overclockers?

Thanks

SinaiSound · 24 Nov 2006 at 11:46

Not that fantastic iirc

My 3400 Newcastle managed a massive 200mhz overclock with a freezer 64.

Larnica · 24 Nov 2006 at 11:55

Hefner said:
Not that fantastic iirc

My 3400 Newcastle managed a massive 200mhz overclock with a freezer 64.

What was it at stock / oc?

Minstadave · 24 Nov 2006 at 13:56

Newcastles weren't great clockers. S754 Venices were much better (but not easy to find).

BENdage · 24 Nov 2006 at 14:52

My old newcastle overclocked quite well. Had a 3500 newc at 2.8Ghz for over a year, I had to put a lot of volts through it tho and one day it just died.

pastymuncher · 24 Nov 2006 at 16:06

I built a pc for my sons around a 754 3000+ Newcastle and a Abit NV8 and got it easily to run at 2.4ghz. It probably would have gone further but i settled for that and it's still running at that now 6 months later with no probs at all.

It was a much better clocker than my 3400+ Clawhammer and then my 3700+ Clawhammer. The 3400+ was the worst and would'nt even manage an extra 200mhz.

Vita · 24 Nov 2006 at 17:21

Got mine @ 2.55GHz

Pulse · 24 Nov 2006 at 22:22

if you can find a venice you will be sorted. my cheap setup sees my 939 venice to 2.87GHz, highest bootable point is 2.93GHz after that it wont finish booting but 2.7-2.8GHz is still a 50%+ overclock

. ok it does need a bit extra voltage to see it there but i would have thought that most large overclocks do.

stock @ 1.8GHz
my best clock @ 2.87GHz (stable/current)

on air by the way.