Overclocking Athlon64 X2's.
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It's the best board to use for any 939 overclock.
Any should be easy enough to overclock, the board can easily do 300HTT plus without even breaking a sweat.
The CPU will give way before the board does. Not to hot on the X2 chips, so just go with one with the most cache if you want the most performance.
edit: Xtreme cooling won't really be needed, but Opterons which are just better quality cores tend to clock easier and run stable on the same clocks with less volts. You can get dual core optys.
Any should be easy enough to overclock, the board can easily do 300HTT plus without even breaking a sweat.
The CPU will give way before the board does. Not to hot on the X2 chips, so just go with one with the most cache if you want the most performance.
edit: Xtreme cooling won't really be needed, but Opterons which are just better quality cores tend to clock easier and run stable on the same clocks with less volts. You can get dual core optys.
That's a great clocking board for any S939 chip. With X2s, probably your most sensible options are to go for the 3800, with 2x 512kb cache or the 4400, with 2x1mb cache. The others simply raise the stock fsb while keeping the cache the same, so it's a waste of money if you're going to be clocking, as you'll be going way above the stock clocks of the intermediate chips anyway. I don't think the intermediate chips clock as well as either of these either - this is certainly true of the 3800 v. 4200, anyway.
A dual core opty would do nicely too, though I don't know too much about clocking those.
Hope that helps.
A dual core opty would do nicely too, though I don't know too much about clocking those.
Hope that helps.
Search the net for a cheap opty 165 or 170, a lot of members were posting on here the other week that they had got opty 165s for £110 from a competitor so they are out there for a good price!
And as already mentioned opterons clock better and run cooler as the stock voltage is a lot lower than the x2s therefore giving you more headroom
Pair one of these with your dfi and aim for 2.8/2.9
And as already mentioned opterons clock better and run cooler as the stock voltage is a lot lower than the x2s therefore giving you more headroom
Pair one of these with your dfi and aim for 2.8/2.9
Using the same colour always worked best from what I have seen.weescott said:
One colour was better for tight timings, and the other colour seemed to perform higher frequencies. Can't remember which way around it was though.
s0ck said:
Really?
So you'd say that a new motherboard, CPU and memory would be a better way to spend £400 to get better gaming performance, bearing in mind I'd need to retain my X850 XT PE, rather than my current plan of a 4400 or something and an 8800GTS?
Surely 4400+, 2Gb Corsair XMS DDR and 8800GTS = better gaming than an E6300, 2Gb of XMS DDR2 and an X850 XT?
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[TW]Fox said:
your right fox, do what u want ,my opty 170 at 2.7ghz steams thru everything, also my 'old' 7900gtxs in sli floor anything thrown at them, so im staying put for the next gen cpu stuff 45nm core 2's probably with 4 cores clocked at 4ghz + **** see a nice increase, as good as core 2 is, anything above 1280x1024 res with all the bells n whistles on, the graphics becomes bottle neck, core 2 at 4ghz vs A64 at 2.2ghz at high res produces near similar frame rates in new games with the same modern card (oblivion/company heroes etc)