Can a 5 year old AMD A64 3200+ be OC'd safely?

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BGA

Discussion Starter · Mar 11, 2009

Hi everyone. I have a 5 year old:

AMD Athlon64 3200+
Chaintech VNF3-250 mobo
Antec True 380S psu
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

average HD and dvd player, 1.5GB average 333MHz RAM.

Is it safe to OC such an old system? It was very dusty until recently, and I think that the 9800 is about to poop out on me because sometimes I hear clicking noises from the fan housing and the heatsink is extremely hot. Other than the gpu everything seems to work as it should.

I've never OC'd before and it looks interesting; any input is appreciated.

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Teufle

· #2 · Mar 11, 2009

If you have an After Market cooler, it should be fine, i still see people OCing old Athlon XPs and Old Pentiums.
I wouldnt try OCing that GPU tho if its making those kind of noises and producing heat.

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Nenkitsune

· #3 · Mar 11, 2009

Yeah no problems doing that. you might want to replace the 9800's fan, but a hot heatsink just means it's WORKING.

anyways, what core is your 3200+? being that it's an Athlon 64 means it's a s754 chip (if it's that old)

download CPU-Z and find out if it's a Newcastle, Venice, Clawhammer, or one of the others (don't remember them all)

I had a 3200+ Newcastle that I ran overclocked for several years at 2.4ghz or so, then swapped out for a better cooler and got to 2.5-2.6ghz at 1.77v and it ran GREAT like that (actually the only reason why I stopped using it is because the motherboard got messed, up, I think it can be repaired, I just haven't bothered seeing if the AS5 on the NB shorted anything)

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xxicrimsonixx

· #4 · Mar 11, 2009

Go for it

. People have been oveclocking chips since before that chip was ever thought up.

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UberN00B

· #5 · Mar 11, 2009

yeah.... go for it. ^^

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Cdpkook132

· #6 · Mar 11, 2009

I just overclocked my Clawhammer 3500+ 939 chip from 2.2Ghz to 2.85Ghz on my old asus A8n-Sli Deluxe. Go for it man!

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IntelConvert

· #7 · Mar 11, 2009

i had an Athlon XP 3000+ on the Socket A(462) (WOOT!) until i built this rig. i never OC'ed it really cause i had no idea what limits where on the chip. urs is newer than mine, but if i remember correctly, my old XP wouldnt boot XP if i OC'ed it even 300mhz over stock. temps werent hot, just didnt boot.

good luck, sell that thing to a museum and buy a new rig, lol jk. ive only had this comp a few weeks and before that, urs was miles ahead of what i had.

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LuckySe7ens

· #8 · Mar 11, 2009

Clean out all of the dust, and start monitoring temps. Core Temp HWmonitor prime95 atitool would be good programs to download.

See where that 9800 is at temperature wise. Though fan noise would be an indication that something may be up. You can always replace the cooler. (although it would probably cost the same to upgrade to a new card)

No reason why you cant overclock old rigs, so long as you keep temperatures at a manageable level you should be ok.

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BGA

Discussion Starter · #9 · Mar 11, 2009

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Originally Posted by Nenkitsune

anyways, what core is your 3200+? being that it's an Athlon 64 means it's a s754 chip (if it's that old)

download CPU-Z and find out if it's a Newcastle, Venice, Clawhammer, or one of the others (don't remember them all)

I had a 3200+ Newcastle that I ran overclocked for several years at 2.4ghz or so, then swapped out for a better cooler and got to 2.5-2.6ghz at 1.77v and it ran GREAT like that (actually the only reason why I stopped using it is because the motherboard got messed, up, I think it can be repaired, I just haven't bothered seeing if the AS5 on the NB shorted anything)

It is a newcastle core. 2210.9MHz, 11x multiplier. Yes, socket 754.

Why did your motherboard get messed up? Was it the overclocking?

My chaintech vnf3-250 is a cheap mobo.

Anyway, what do I do to OC?

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See where that 9800 is at temperature wise.

The 9800 has no temp measuring device.

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Nenkitsune

· #10 · Mar 12, 2009

mine got messed up because I think I got a bit of AS5 around the NB and shorted something. the PCI bus and onboard audio failed, but EVERYTHING else worked fine (I even did a stability test with prime95 and it passed fine)

it had nothing to do with overclocking it.

anyways, what kind of heatsink do you have on it? if you have a good one, you should be able to push over 1.7v into it without damaging it (mine was set to 1.71v but would RISE to 1.77v under load)

here's the only picture I have of my highest stable overclock (I think I was able to get 2.6ghz stable but I don't remember, because I have clockgen overclocks of up to 2.68ghz)

I also had a VERY cheap motherboard. it was/is a Biostar NF325-A7 that came with a Venice 3000 for 60 bucks a few years ago on newegg.

to overclock, go into your bios, drop your ram timing a bit (if you have DDR400 drop it to DDR333) drop you HT multiplier from 4x to 3x, then raise your Vcore a bit, and start raising your FSB.

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