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[LeeBe]

A hell of an overclock in fact..

Just got a new CPU and mobo, got an Athlon64 3700+ San Diego (1MB cache) because it seemed a bargain at only £49 and I had a 2800+ before - got a new mobo, an Epox 9NDA3+ - though I had to buy it 2nd hand because you couldnt get them anymore, I emailed Epox and the guy that answered said they dont make them anymore, but he had one for sale if I wanted only €50 (£35), another bargain I thought, came in a couple of days from NL and looked as good as new (he even bundled some promo stuff in there )

when I first tried it, it wouldnt work .. but I narrowed it down to my graphics card (worked with other ones) so I waited a bit, then bought a new graphics card an ATI X1950 512mb which is great much better than my other card (which I only had a few months!) and does a decent overclock as well from 580mhz to 620mhz core speed and 700(ddr) to 760(ddr) memory speed (total 120mhz) which is very nice considering it was with standard cooling

so I recently set it all up and managed to get it all running well, after a little while, I decided to overclock it

so for a while I had it running at 230fsb (default 200) which is a great clock, gave me a total speed of 2550mhz instead of 2200mhz - a free 15% increase in the processor speed (for reference the FX-60 runs at 2600Mhz)

so tonight I decided to see if I could get anymore out of it..



wow this thing doesnt know when to quit! and only 35°C the heatsink was only about £10



so 2804mhz is what I am running at now a free 27% increase - the top of the range FX-74 runs at 3000Mhz - so thats my target if I break that Ill be posting it

not too bad for a £50 cpu

[roba]

Oh my God! Hehe nice one LeeBe, but be careful, I hope you have fire-extinguisher somewhere near your computer .

Is the difference in speed of CPU visible in normal work? I have 2600+ and I am wondering if its worth of getting stronger CPU for my old SocketA mobo...

[Wayzor]

Impressive indeed for fifty notes m8.
BUt are you confident that the sensor is reporting the correct temps Lee?
Sounds very cool for so much clock speed.

[LeeBe]

yep seems to match roughly what it says in the bios and in other apps



got it over 3GHz



Idle temp is around 38/39°C

and ran it through a stress test, seems rock solid stable and under heavy load it maxes at 47°C



@Roba - I can tell a difference in some things, like Terragen and Photoshop, but im not sure you can get Socket A CPU's anymore or if you'll get much of an improvement over yours