Socket 754 Fastest CPU?

[KadreMoD]

Ello,

Does anyone know what the Fastest Cpu made for socket 754 Motherboards was?

Atm I've got a lowly sempron 3100+ and I'm looking for something with a bit more grunt , but I dont want to spend a whole load of dosh as the rest of my system is pretty good for what I use it for. Hopefully I can pick a cheap skt 754 cpu up from somewhere if they are still around.

 

[KadreMoD]

Yeh, I've tried to clock it, but my motherboard dosent seem to like it. I clocked the sempron to 2ghz (stock is 1.8) and the mb started making a screeching sound and the PC would reboot itself when under load. This was on the stock cooler though, but the temps never went too high from what I can remember.

I'll give it another go since I updated the mb bios. But I dont hold much hope.Also I think that the 3100+ sempron is'nt 64-bit and is based on an Athlon XP. From what I've read it was the 3200+ that were based on the 64-bit architecture.

 

[KadreMoD]

Looking for just the cpu im afraid, I've got an AGP Gfx card so would'nt make sense for me to buy a mb and cpu. I think I'll go into one of my local PC shops that refurbish computers/sell 2nd hand parts and see if I get lucky.