Overclock Info Challenge

[cyph0r]

Hey everyone I've recently purchased a new machine and would like to overclock the FX-60 to 3.0. Ive never water cooled befor nor have I over clocked befor.

What I am looking to get out of this Post

1. What kind of settings should i use in the bios to reach this goal.
2. what king of cooling should i use
3. If water what type of water cooling kit/parts should I use (links greatly appreciated) to get everything to fit in my case. ( I will post picture)
4. If water will water cooling the Chipset be nessicary in this application? or will the Passive heat pipe solution be suffcient
5 If this can be done with Air cooling can it be done with the Zalman Cooler i allready have its a ZALMAN CNPS7000B

I am running the following[/img]
AMD FX-60
Asus A8n-sli Primium
corsair 3500LLpro (3500) 2-3-2-5 t1
Lian- LI 2000b plus

If i need to go the Water cooling route Im not looking to go CHEEP im looking to go reliable and suffcient.

If you need to know the rest of my hardware let me know here are the pictures of the system to know what you have to work with

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Bottom

Overall with out PSU and most of the componets

 

[bront]

I'm making a journal in a post here that may have info that might help. I'm going to post a few links I found that were useful in that one as well.

 

[bront]

You might be able to use air cooling, you have a fairly good heatsink, and a good case.

Yes, playing with the multiplier first is the easy way, jumping up half steps. If you choose to adjust the system clock, make sure you drop the HT multiplier and adjust the memory ratio so you are only working on the clock.

Once you get the clock speed where you want it and stable, you can play with your memory, but throttle down your system first, so you're isolating the memory.

As I said before, I'm playing with this myself, and I haven't started on my CPU, but I'm testing my memory at DDR500 (It's DDR400 stock) at the moment, and have it pretty close to being stable.

 

[MasterLee]

Without actually doing it in person it's hard to say what you'll really get out of it. Remember, heat is the enemy.

 

[a1ien]

Good luck, keep us up to date on how it goes. 3Ghz is hard on an Athlon 64 but not impossible.

4Ghz has been reached on Athlon 64's before.

 

[eyimbo]

Hey! lucky you!

if you don't mind me asking, how did you afford such a nice rig?!!!!

good luck on the OC'ing!!

i wish i was rich, but don't we all.