new to overclocking

spacegrass · 27 May 2006 at 15:34

Hi, Im new to overclocking, however following a guide I found I increased the core speed of my athlon 64 3200 from 2000mhz to 2400. This is around a 20% increase :cool:

Which isnt bad, but I was wondering, how much more of an increase would I be able to make if I was to invest in a new cpu cooler, say something like the freezer 64?

Im not prepared to try out water cooling right now, so i assume a new cpu cooler is the only way to get further gains?

my specs;

amd athlon 64 3200+
foxconn NF4K8AC motherboard
xfx 7600gt 256mb
1.5 gigs unbranded pc3200 ram
maxtor diamondmax 10 80gb hdd
..............................160gb hdd
sumvision 500w psu

Thermaltake soprano case

spacegrass · 27 May 2006 at 16:33

i have one stick of 1gb and one stick of 512

as for the rest, i have no idea so ill just show you

hope that helps...

idle temperature is 10 degrees, using prime95 the highest temperature i recorded was 37 degrees.

spacegrass · 27 May 2006 at 16:37

spacegrass · 27 May 2006 at 16:38

ill be damned if i can understand photobucket

spacegrass · 27 May 2006 at 16:42

ok, TYPING out whats on the cpu menu

core speed - 2400.2mhz
multiplier - x10.0
htt - 240mhz
L1 data - 64 kbytes
l1 code - 64 kbytes
level 2 - 512kbytes
voltage - 1.376v