retro overclock

[renomint]

Having shamefully lost the new PC/sofa battle with the wife, I was hoping someone could kindly walk me through overclocking my CPU.
AMD 64 3200+
ASUS A8ne motherboard
running at 2Ghz I understand it can safely be pushed to nearly 2.4Ghz?
Sound realistic?

 

[NeoVo]

Providing you have a good CPU cooler to keep temperatures low, and read up on what your doing, you should easily achieve 2.4ghz.

 

[FrenchTart]

Having shamefully lost the new PC/sofa battle with the wife, I was hoping someone could kindly walk me through overclocking my CPU.
AMD 64 3200+
ASUS A8ne motherboard
running at 2Ghz I understand it can safely be pushed to nearly 2.4Ghz?
Sound realistic?

My old 3200 used to hit 2.75 ghz and it wasn't a great clocker by any means. I'm sure you could get higher than 2.4.

 

[ecat]

939, lovely

I went through 4 939 processors, my Opti180 is still going strong. They all did at least 2.7 under water. I'd guess 2.6 on air would be a reasonable expectation ?

 

[FrenchTart]

939, lovely

I went through 4 939 processors, my Opti180 is still going strong. They all did at least 2.7 under water. I'd guess 2.6 on air would be a reasonable expectation ?

Mine was 2.75 on air. I'm pretty sure that most went to closer to 3ghz on water/etc?

 

[ecat]

all under water: iirc my first single core hit 2.7, the Opti 144 was good for 2.8, my 180 makes 3.0 and a late model single core hits 3.1 or 3.2 with LOTS of power. I forget the model numbers of the single cores

 

[gt_junkie]

Mine was 2.75 on air. I'm pretty sure that most went to closer to 3ghz on water/etc?

I ran a 165 @ 3ghz on air - lapped big typhoon.

Most of my chips (3000+, 3200+, 3700+ and 3800X2) managed at least 2.6ghz.

Only limiting factor seemed to be the ability of the motherboard.

gt

 

[FrenchTart]

I ran a 165 @ 3ghz on air - lapped big typhoon.

Most of my chips (3000+, 3200+, 3700+ and 3800X2) managed at least 2.6ghz.

Only limiting factor seemed to be the ability of the motherboard.

gt

Yeah, that sounds more like it.

Though now you mention it..my chip was a 3700, not a 3200

I never have the best luck with chips tbh.

 

[ecat]

Only limiting factor seemed to be the ability of the motherboard.

gt

Or the psu

I had my system on one of those power meters the first time I tried the single core I mentioned above at over 3GHz, 3.2 maybe, I forget. According to the meter my Tagan 450 was pulling 430 watts, about twice the power I'd expect from a lower clock !

 

[renomint]

Any chance of a simple walkthrough? i'd be happy with 2.5 if its rock solid and not gonna heat the room! I'm a total overclock virgin. (Gently now)

 

[geowal19]

Just put it up 50Mhz reboot if it boots check your temps run stability then repeat. If it fails to boot do a CMOS reset then repeat until that speed and up the voltage by 0.05v. Then repeat the first part. I would read up on the safe temps of that CPU.

 

[Blackwhite]

I have this mobo with AMD64 3700 Sand diego @ 2.6 GHz(SECOND RIG), but with AMD 64 3000 I reached 2.5 GHz stable.The problem is ,this mobo it is not so good for OC, you can't get high vcore on it to reach 2.7 or 3 GHz.

 

[matt100]

iirc high 2ghz was the limit for A64s without some pretty exotic cooling.. I've had an X2 3800 over 3ghz under phase but water on my X2 4400 used to top out at about 2.7/2.8.. end of the line 3700s were the monster clockers (apart from the 1 series opterons).. they could get close to or over 3ghz but it was by no means simple.

@op.. I think (and I can't believe I've forgotten this!) you need to aim at getting the HTT to about 220/230 and change the HTT multi down to a number where the resulting number is under 1000.

You might be limited by your ram too though.. most PC3200 started to flake after about 215 depending on the timings, if it gets shaky up your CAS to 2.5 or 3.

Wow.. that might be a load of rubbish but it brings back some mad memories either way!