overclocking advice, please

[wod]

i wanting to upgrade from 1.4gig athlon to something more faster and was thinking of buying a 2500+ xp and overclocking it as its a 333fsb processor will it overclock well ? or just buy something like a 3200 ?

what ram would i need 2700 or 3200 ? cause of the fsb speed would it get to 200/ 400 fsb

do you need to overclock the memory as well or is it just fsb speed ?

the board i'm gonna use em in is the Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL, cause i got it free.

thanks wod

[mt50]

get a 2500+ and some pc3200 you will get it to 3200+ speeds without any trouble.

just up the fsb to 200 and the mulitplyer to 11 thats 2.2ghz then try to get it higher by upping the fsb in say 5mhz steps.

[wod]

what memory is good to use with it as overclockers has lots of different ones.

is it a waste to buy some corsair or ocz memory ?

do i get pc 3500 to be ok when overclocking it or as you say some pc3200 ?

[superkully]

Crucial Value Select PC3200 will sort you out.

As mt50, the BARTON XP2500+ is grand for overclocking. Get yourself one of those, some Arctic silver thermal grease and a good heatsink (I have a all copper thermalright with a 92mm fan) and it runs cool and quiet.

[wod]

i've already got a thermalright heatsink with 80mm fan , just stuck on memory

also does dual channel make much difference ?

[Ciaran]

You should get the Geil Value ram, some people have been able to hit 460+ on it and its cheaper than Cosair Value.

[wod]

i've been looking at there ultra range as it seems for the same price on overclockers u can get pc3500 512mb over ocz pc3200 performance series

edit just noticed

GeIL 512MB PC3200 Golden Value CAS2.5 ?68.15 Including VAT at 17.5%)

this any good ?

[Ciaran]

Thats the one I was talking about. I bought 1gb of it about a month ago but I haven't been able to push it past 400 because of my CPU

[mt50]

does dual channel make much difference ?

about 5-10% better in DC mode

[wod]

ciaran have you been able to lower the memory timings ?

[superkully]

Ebuyer are selling DDr400 (crucial) for ?55 / 512MB. It's CAS3, but that 0.5-1 nanosecond difference between 2.5 and 2.0 is nothing in real-life (you're not a benchmark monkey are you? )

Nice.

[wod]

yeah but wanting to push my system abit, plus it aint had upgrade for 4 year so something special this time

[Chadruharazzeb]

The Geil value dual channel kit is meant to be superb. It's so good, I'm getting it myself in a couple of weeks. If you need help with PC stuff, try the Overclockers forum, they're really helpful and don't always force the most expensive stuff on you. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/

[wod]

yeah i was thinking of that asi cant afford dual channel 1gb , only need 512mb at the mo so was gonna buy some golden value geil 512mb

[novakill]

dont do it
my mate did it to his shuttle and had to reformat