Does anyone know any good cheap heatsink or fan or any good cooling device to OC an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2 ghz? Ive heard some people talked about OCing this thing all the way up to 2.8 ghz stable. Any help would be appreciated thanks
a thermaltake typhoon is a nice cheap fan for 54 bucks look here a guy even had no complaints with this with his o'clocked Athlon X2 3800! even says free shipping!
I have got my 3700+ overclocked to 2.8ghz stable, at 1.45v idle 28 degrees and load 44 degrees, with the stock cooler, anything over 2.9ghz and the voltage is going up a hell of a lot more quicker, so 2.9ghz seems to be the limit for a 3700+, but a stock cooler should be ok, but a better cooler would be better if you want a quiet system. Also, i ran prime95 for 12 hours and got no errors, but after a couple of months at 2.8ghz/1.45v it starts to show, i started getting random resets, i bumped the voltage up to 1.5 or 1.47v, and those random resets are gone now, and i have not majour temperature differences. If you have a decent cooler, from what i have seen, you can possibly get the 3700+ up to 3.0ghz, on one site, max stable overclock was 3.2ghz, and unstable was 3.4ghz, but they were using water cooling. I got my cpu up to 3.0ghz, i managed to load windows, but i soon got a reset when loading anything CPU intensive, maybe a bit more tweaking in the bios and it might of been stable at that, i would of needed a better cooler tho, as i was on 1.6v. i had to set the HT multiplyer to 3x, and 2/1.66 on the cpu-mem or fsb ratio, cant remember what it was, and set the fsb speed to 254mhz, and i got 2.8ghz. the 3700+ is performing just as good as an FX 57 when clocked at 2.8ghz, i got 80,000 in aquamark 03, when with stock speed, i got 72,000. Best overclockers are the opteron cpu's, the 170's are clocked at 2.0ghz and can rach 3.0ghz stable apparently, i think that is also the case for the 144.
true that... the stock cooler is often more than adequate for your CPU, o'clocked or not. another good cheap fan is the G-Power cooler from gigabyte, it's also got a LED in the fan I agree with you about the opteron being a good overclocker, I'm beginning to see some machines built by local shops with o'clocked opterons in it, only problem is that they cost a bomb!
the 144 opteron is actually cheap, its £129 were as the 3700+ is £140, 144 is 1.8ghz but i bet on decent cooling it could reach 2.8ghz
on overclockers.co.uk that is were i found the opteron, i noticed when purchasing somthing from overclockers.co.uk, it asks you what country your from, so perhaps they ship worldwide?
have you heard of a guy who o'clocked his CPU to 5 ghz using dry ice as his cooling method? I don't know how he did it, but he did.
dry ice, is ice that is very very very very cold, so cold that if you touch it it would stick to you and would burn you (think of dumb and dumber) no you cnt jst slap it in coz when it melts it would coz vapor to meet with the computer parts and oh oh. *electrical surge* *smoke coming from PC* you get it, so im guessing you have to mod your own cooler and coat your components with some coating to protect it from condensation.
