venice 3200 at 3GHz

of course it can.. with vapochill it should be quite easy lol.
of course to spend 8 times the amount of cash on the cooling system than you did on the chip seems quite silly.
 
Clutch said:
Maybe if you have a "golden" chip and an excellent cooling system.
lol, why, I've overclocked mine to 2.9 GHz @ stock cooling @ 1.6V and it's perfectly stable, temps never reach 60°C which is a bit high and that's why I don't keep it on that frequency. 322*9
 
vapochill is phase change cooling... like in the negative degrees, to the point where you need insulation because its so cold so that water doesnt condense inside the computer case.
water cooling might do the trick depending on the quality of the parts used.
 
filip-matijevic said:
lol, why, I've overclocked mine to 2.9 GHz @ stock cooling @ 1.6V and it's perfectly stable, temps never reach 60°C which is a bit high and that's why I don't keep it on that frequency. 322*9
That seems quite impressive, contrary to personal experience from the results that my friends have obtained.

Two of my other friends have Athlon 64 3200+'s (Venice), and they seem to hit a barrier at 2.6GHz or so.
 
The highest my previous Athlon 64 3200+ got to was 2.7Ghz, but it wasnt completely stable. I got it around 2.6Ghz stable.
 
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I'm running my 3000+ venice at 2.325 Stable according to SuperPi 32M
Stock heatsync. 10 case fans. 25c idle 33-35c under load.
 
Vapochill is a sort of phase change cooling- it use a refrigarent with a boling point of -50* or so, and compresses it into a gas, and when it comes into contact with the evap. on the CPU, the gas expands and warms, taking the heat of the cpu away with it.

to get 3Ghz with a 3000, you would need a good mobo- DFI is the OC'ers choice, Ultra Ds are cheap and OC like beasts- some fairly good RAM (Cas 2 @ DDR-400) to put on a divider, a very good stepping CPU, and either high-end watercooling, or phase change.

If you were to use an Opteron 144, they cost the same, FX-57 speeds can be seen with a $24 HSF-
 
even if you manage to get the chip at a low temp, it still might not overclock to 3.0ghz. Just try to OC it and see how far it will go.
 
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