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I have an AMD 3400+ that I would like to overclock but the only thing I have done so far is put the FSB to 212Mhz. I want to overclock it to a noticeable difference and still be stable...I'm willing to move to water cooling or fan replacement if necessary but my system is old (but reliable...been about 6years now i think
) its an AGP mobo ms6741 with a geforce 7800gs oc from bfg and elixir 2gb ram pc3200. if you need more info please ask
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That board you have is a K8T800 chipset, unless it's the later revision of it (K8T800PRO and I don't think it is), it has no AGP/PCI lock.

Without such a lock, you may already be nearing the practical limit of the board with that 212MHz reference clock. ~220Mhz may be doable, but past that you are probably asking for data corruption.
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Originally Posted by Blameless View Post
That board you have is a K8T800 chipset, unless it's the later revision of it (K8T800PRO and I don't think it is), it has no AGP/PCI lock.

Without such a lock, you may already be nearing the practical limit of the board with that 212MHz reference clock. ~220Mhz may be doable, but past that you are probably asking for data corruption.
CPU-Z reports it as:

Chipset: VIA K8M400 (VT8380)
Southbridge: VIA VT8237

and in my BIOS (American Megatrends vers 7.00T) the FSB range is 200-280MHz

Now why would the manufacturers put in something that could never be used?

Once before I set it to 220MHz and got BSOD's 5mins after logging on, but that was when the computer was in a box room with no room to breathe and the room was generally warm, and I didn't have my extra fans in then. Now recently, I set it to 215MHz but my whole computer locked up randomly during gameplay but during normal use it was not as frequent. At 212MHz it hasn't had any problems so far, but 212 compared to the max of 280 is nothing.

I understand stability issues which is why I don't want to set it to like 2.8-3GHz (I read in another forum that someone with the same processor had managed 3GHz) But I do want to bump it up to maybe ~2.6/7

It's an old system (but reliable...I've had it ~6-7years I think, so I upgraded the graphics and PSU and RAM and added extra fans, and I will upgrade the stock CPU fan if need be...
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