AMD 3000+ Overclocking Suggestions

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Hey guys, I'm fairly new to overclocking and have been reading tons of stuff about it over a period of about a month. I have done some tweeking to my amd 3000+ but I was wondering if i could get anything else out of it. Here are my specs:

AMD s939 64 3000+ (1800)
Stock HSF
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR
4x512mb Corsair value select

I have made some mods to my system already and got it to 2.115 stable. Here are my timings and multipliers and everything.
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Does anyone have any suggestions for me? What should i put the cpu voltage at?

Thanks!
 
It looks like you have reached the max speed you can go on the ram. You could go in and set the ram speed from 200mhz to 166mhz and keep going.
 
bump voltage up if you're temps are stable under load, it was pretty easy to get my 3000+ to 2.5ghz at 1.55 volts
you've got a bit of headroom left, pretty decent ram too, bump the divider down and boost the fsb
 
Your 4 sticks of ram are holding you back big time. As shown in many reviews the mem controller on the die for the AMD chips hate 4 sticks of ram when it comes to overclocks.

You can double your OC if you go with 2 sticks.

You should get that chip to 2.4 OC. Most of those Venice Chips will. My Venice went to 2.5

You should would seem to have a lot of head room on the Volts (1.5 should be obtainable) as well as a 250-260 FSB.

You would do much better to sell those 4 512's and get 2, 1 meg sticks if you think you need 2 megs of ram.

Also get a better cooler. I better cooler will allow you to increase the voltages, but keep the temps down.

My 2 cents.
 
bradyapba said:
Your 4 sticks of ram are holding you back big time. As shown in many reviews the mem controller on the die for the AMD chips hate 4 sticks of ram when it comes to overclocks.

You can double your OC if you go with 2 sticks.

You should get that chip to 2.4 OC. Most of those Venice Chips will. My Venice went to 2.5

You should would seem to have a lot of head room on the Volts (1.5 should be obtainable) as well as a 250-260 FSB.

You would do much better to sell those 4 512's and get 2, 1 meg sticks if you think you need 2 megs of ram.

Also get a better cooler. I better cooler will allow you to increase the voltages, but keep the temps down.

My 2 cents.
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Would my computer run better with just 1 mb ram and overclocking the cpu more? I'm getting my opteron 165 in today and I was just messing with my old CPU so will i be able to overclock my opteron more with just 1mb as well?
 
depends what you mean by run better.

Do you do anything that requires 2 megs or ram? Video encoding, a lot of burning, etc?

Mostly gaming? Most games do not require more than a meg of ram. There are a few that do.


The opty will run into the same problem, which is too bad, those are supposed to be good overclockers.

Really all depends what you want to do and what you do with your system.

If you want to push that OC, 2 sticks of ram and a better HSF is the way to go.

If you want to have a smaller OC but more ram, than the stock HSF and a the 4 sticks may be ok for you.

If it was me personally, i would sell the 4 sticks, which should close to fund 2 sticks of 1 gig ram, and get a better HSF.

I would go with a better HSF no matter what.. its just better all around, keeping your CPU as cool as possible is always a good thing.

Just my 2 cents.
 
bradyapba said:
depends what you mean by run better.

Do you do anything that requires 2 megs or ram? Video encoding, a lot of burning, etc?

Mostly gaming? Most games do not require more than a meg of ram. There are a few that do.


The opty will run into the same problem, which is too bad, those are supposed to be good overclockers.

Really all depends what you want to do and what you do with your system.

If you want to push that OC, 2 sticks of ram and a better HSF is the way to go.

If you want to have a smaller OC but more ram, than the stock HSF and a the 4 sticks may be ok for you.

If it was me personally, i would sell the 4 sticks, which should close to fund 2 sticks of 1 gig ram, and get a better HSF.

I would go with a better HSF no matter what.. its just better all around, keeping your CPU as cool as possible is always a good thing.

Just my 2 cents.
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I got the AC Freezer Pro 64...so i'm hoping it will keep my new opty cool. I guess I will be selling those sticks of memory...too bad i just bought them recently...crap
 
I think you will be happy with the freezer 64 especially for the money. Got one for my dad's comp, can't remember exact temp drops, but remember being surprised for the amount of money spent on the damn thing.
 
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