Should I buy this processor AMD Athlon 3000+

[Molby24]

I'm looking to buy the AMD Athlon 3000+ from FRY'S.
I plan on overclocking it, and I would like to make sure
that its a good canidate for that, and find out how much I
can expect to get out of it as far as max speed. Also
what i need to change the bios to in order to get that.
what i already have is radeon 9600 pro and thats about it
im buying a ECS 755-A2 Socket 754 for AMD K8 Athlon 64/Sempron
motherboard, and 1Gb of ram as well as a fans and cables and such
total for everything is $222.15

 

[exarrkun]

your post is very unclear
what is your budget?
what do you already own? (like mobo, ram,...)

post these please, or nobody can help you

 

[sirheck]

more info please.

price of said cpu you are paying?
what you have already?

that kind of stuff.

 

[sirheck]

ha beat me to it

 

[exarrkun]

yeah, one minute difference dude

 

[sirheck]

first off get it up and going.
make sure everything is good .

then post back.

edit; as for an oc i would imagine you could get it to 3700 speeds.
2.4 if i remember right.
depends on memory,temps, and luck.

 

[ShadowdogKGB]

I have an ECS 755-A2 here in another comp and I can tell you without a doubt it is an abysmal overclocker. It has no AGP/PCI lock, minimal selection in the bios, and if you're going to use a SATA drive it won't even overclock 5 mhz. I'm not kidding. There's a bios mod out there that adds a couple minor voltage adjustments but that's it. I think I paid 35 bucks for it from Newegg.

For 222 bucks you could do better.

 

[Molby24]

thing is im trying to stay with the 754 pin so i dont have to buy a new vidio card as well

 

[muffin]

Maybe see if there are Asrock 939 Dual Sata (what a horrible name) motherboards around still...will use your DDR (I presume) and has a socket 939 for aforementioned 3800x2, or migrate to AM2/DDR2 via daughterboard. Also supports AGP and PCIe - even simultaneously and overclocks very well. Not a premium board, but very versatile and works just fine @ 30% over every day for a year now. They also make an Intel board with the same PCIe/AGP idea. Both use ULi chipsets, I think.

 

[jaguarskx]

As Muffin stated, get the Asrock 939Dual VSTA mobo for $70 + shipping. It is a socket 939 motherboard and it has both AGP and PCI-e x16 slots.

Anandtech.com has a review. Note: Asrock changed the name, it used to be called 939Dual-SATA2:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2524

It is a really good option because you can upgrade to a S939 Athlon X2 later.

 

[Molby24]

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz Socket 939 Processor Model


WINTEC AMPO 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop


ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Socket 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard -



Hows this for an overclocking combo?????

 

[brick88]

i honestly would just do a whole new system build.

 

[ShadowdogKGB]

Well your gettin a little better. But the 3000+ Venice core will easily hit 2.4 without breaking a sweat. You'd save 40 bucks there. Also, you'd want 2x512 sticks for dual channel.

Seriously though, save your cash and get the 6300 Core 2 Duo and start from there.