February 12, 200620 yr My current motherboard just doesn't have what it takes to overclock at all. I am looking for a good overclocking motherboard. My buget for this board is $110 (USD). What it needs to have: Good overclocking options agp slot socket 939 I have been looking at this motherboard here. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813187010 Or if you know anything better please suggest it :) . Please don't say upgrade to a pci-e graphics card, thats out of the question.
February 12, 200620 yr Why do you want to overclock? You'd probably be limited by your graphics card (I'm assuming you'll use the extra speed in hopes of better game framerates). I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam.
February 12, 200620 yr Author I'm power hungry. I'm always trying to get the most out of my system. I have a radeon x850 pro (flashed for 16 pipes at 535 core 565 memory) so it shouldn't be botlenecked. I can get my athlon 64 3700+ to over 2.6ghz on air cooling easily if I had a good motherboard. Be a huge preformance jump getting about 400mz increase.
February 12, 200620 yr The Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 ($62.00) has gotten good reviews for overclocking. (atleast board in that series have gotten good reviews) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128286 I was not able to find any decent reviews on the Mach Speed Viper or any other of the suitable boards.... (although I only did a search on about half of the ones on newegg)
February 12, 200620 yr Last time I checked just about all the socket 939 boards allowed overclocking. I myself have had experience with both an MSI K8N Neo2 and a K8N Neo4 Platinum in both cases. Which are not really that expensive in my opinion. Are you sure you're not being limited by RAM? :? In most cases people think because they can't overclock a processor it's because of the processor or the motherboard, when it's not. It'll be the RAM. Also I assume you know you need to set the HTT for 4 or lower? You can't have the HTT at 5 and do over 205MHz under most circumstances. Remembering that HTT x Bus speed must equal 1000 or near abouts. Edit: If you're thinking about another board, my personal suggestions for a manufacturer would be Abit, Asus, DFI or MSI. Personally I wouldn't pick a Gigabyte board, but I've seen way too many of the old Socket A's die. :( I doubt you'll get a DFI board with an AGP slot though, and I don't believe newegg are doing MSI on the AGP format. Abit or Asus then. :P Notoriously Trollish.
February 12, 200620 yr In this day and age, simply claiming you want a board which is better to overclock with doesn't work. What is it that you don't have but need? Increased FSB? RAM-voltage? Divider-range? Chipset/CPU-voltage? AGP/PCI lock? With the right dividers, most socket 939 boards should be able to get any Athlon 64 processor above 2.6ghz, with any memory. I don't suppose you are trying to overclock while maintaining a 1:1 cpu/memoryperformance ratio? If so, I would recomend against it. It's not worth the money. In any case, additional details would really help.
February 12, 200620 yr Author In this day and age, simply claiming you want a board which is better to overclock with doesn't work. What is it that you don't have but need? Increased FSB? RAM-voltage? Divider-range? Chipset/CPU-voltage? AGP/PCI lock? With the right dividers, most socket 939 boards should be able to get any Athlon 64 processor above 2.6ghz, with any memory. I don't suppose you are trying to overclock while maintaining a 1:1 cpu/memoryperformance ratio? If so, I would recomend against it. It's not worth the money. In any case, additional details would really help. The board I have now has the voltage will not go higher than 1.4. I'm running on Corsair XMS (2x 512mb dual channel. Timings are 2-3-3-6. I am not running at 1:1 ratio. I run at the ratio that will have my ram at the fequency I want. Depends what the fsb speed is clocked at. I realy want to overclock this system fully and I can't do that with the voltage lock and the lack of features on my current board (see below). details Athlon 64 3700+ (default 2.2ghz, clocked at 2.3) radeon x850 pro (flashed for 16 pipes) 2x 512mb corsair in dual channel Currently I have an ASRock 939Dual (the board with agp and pci-e slot) EDIT: Militaris, I have checked out that board, it seems pretty good. The only thing is, it has 800mhz hypertransport, wouldn't that limit the processor? The porcessor runs at 1ghz hypertransport.
February 14, 200620 yr Author Sorry for a double post. This motherboard from Asus came into stock at newegg today. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131541 Looks good to me. Anybody with more knowledge than me look this over?
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