Athlon Venice core Overclocking

h2ocooler · 14 Apr 2006 at 01:05

Got a Athlon64 Venice 3000+ Cpu in an Asus A8V-MX today for another crunching box and wondered what sort of overclock these cores are normally good for, got it to 222Mhz FSB (2000Mhz) at the moment but tried it earlier at 230Mhz and corupted the hard disk, forgot to lock the PCI & AGP buses Doh
Going to change it to an X2 3800 as soon as funds allow as i have heard these are good for clocking you know what its like, have to push things hard!
Its on standard AMD Air sitting at 40deg full load with the fan at 2200 rpm.
Thanks for any info given.

BigDom · 14 Apr 2006 at 02:20

Overclockability of the 3800+ and Venice are pretty much the same given they're both Venices ( 3800+ just has two )... should get at least 2.5 out of the Venice and 2.4 out of the 3800+ ( slightly less due to increased heat from two cores ).

h2ocooler · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:32

Thanks for the reply, locked the PCI & AGP bus, set the FSB to 230 and it booted into Xp, worked fine then when i rebooted it said windows/system32/config was corrupted so having to reinstall again!, going to image the hard disk now and keep trying, any suggestions?

vanandjuanunited · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:33

Memory divider possibly

h2ocooler · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:42

will have a look at that as soon as its installed and imaged again, thought i had set set that but might be mistaken.

gunner · 14 Apr 2006 at 22:56

I've got my Venice 3000 at 2.65Mhz stable.
X3
133 divider
296HT (fsb...?)
2Gb G.Skill ZX

No problems with corruption. Althought the RAM won't overclock up to a 166 divider. Give it a go I think these CPU's have quite a lot of headroom for overclocking.

Good Luck.

Cyber-Mav · 14 Apr 2006 at 22:58

your biggest mistake is booting into windows without running memory tests after any overclocking you do.

Defcon5 · 15 Apr 2006 at 22:21

I would have thought the board will give up before the chip does, especially if its a good stepping

Mine can reach 2.8 on 1.5v (not completley stable though).

h2ocooler · 16 Apr 2006 at 00:15

Defcon5 said:
I would have thought the board will give up before the chip does, especially if its a good stepping

Mine can reach 2.8 on 1.5v (not completley stable though).

It clocks ok and boots into windows, just when i try to reboot @ 230 MHz windows/system32/config is corrupt but at 225MHz its fine, couldnt find a memory divider, only one setting to lock mem to 200MHz but it didnt work, cpuz reported mem running at 230MHz same as CPU. might look for BIOS update and try again.