[AlanTM456]

While not the newest Athlon 64 this socket 939 beast is still a great overclocker. My friend and I both bought them in conjunction with the release of the Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe that came out earlier this year. The 90nm cpu process means lower vcore voltage and much less heat.

I upgraded to this processor from a Athlon XP 1700+ Jiucb. The 1700+ was a decent overclocker as well, but required a big noisy fan to keep it cool and actually degraded in performance over time. My overclocking experience with the 3000+ has been wonderful. So far I have pushed the processor from 1.8ghz@200mhz to 2.48ghz@275mhz HTT and this is on the stock fan! CPU temp only increased by 3-4 degrees C so a new heatsink or fan was not required.

The ram I used for this was 512mb Geil Ultra PC4400 @ 7-3-3-2.5 , Newegg just had a great deal on this ram so I bought another 512mb and it should be here by the end of the week.

So as all these new processors come out don't forget about the venerable Winchester Core 3000+, its great price-performance wise and is getting cheaper and cheaper as new processors continue to be released.

[lukumce]

I have winchester core 3000+ and as you can see I hit ~2400MHz at stock voltage .
I want to know your cpu temp at full load with the stock AMD cooler. And please tell me your ambient temp.

[AlanTM456]

I'll get back to you on those temp's next week after I have my 2X512mb Dual channel up and running. What ram are you using to get ~2400mhz? I know my friend who i mentioned before used 2X512mb Patriot PC4200 and it was really stable.

[lukumce]

I set the ram divader at 1:2 and the freq is 100MHz plus 70 from higher HTT I get 170 MHz . That is 340 DDR . It's not 400 DDR but is fast enough for me .
My ram is Mosel PC3200 2x512MB.

[AlanTM456]

now that i have 1 gig of dual channel on there i overclocked to match the speed of the ram. I set the ram at ddr550 at 7-4-4-2.5 and bumped the HTT up to 275. Ram voltage is at 2.85 and vcore is at 1.45. this gets me to 2.48ghz on my winchester 3000+. I then overclocked my Chaintech 6600gt from 500/1000 (core/mem) to 582/1160 and proceeded to run 3dmark 2001 b330.

I managed a score of 17760 which was quite a bit higher than my previous computers. I'm confident that after I tweak a few other things and maybe add some AS5 to the graphics card I'll manage to score a bit higher. Also, this is on the original bios of my A8N-Sli Deluxe. So i really need to flash the bios to the newest version.

The temperature raised from 33 C to 38 C at idle, with an ambient temp. of 34 C i think. I'm not sure what they were under load, either way these are very low for stock AMD cooling.

[Quailane]

Winchesters are not all bad. My brother has a 3000+ winchester running at 2.7Ghz stable. He did lap the stock heatsink and use as5 though.

[AlanTM456]

I went back into the bios after reading the an Asus A8N-Sli Faq and disabled some things like the Silicon SATA controller and made sure it was saving my ram/cpu setting correctly. Then I ran msconfig and disabled a bunch of crap that was starting up with my computer and ran 3dmark 2001 b330 again.

This time i got 21831, a little over 4000 points higher than the first time! This little athlon 64 system i built on the cheap is really coming together