Originally Posted by feesh
Hello everyone. It took me a few sittings to read through this entire thread but it was worth it, great info :toast:
I decided to join the amd64 ranks so I got the Fry's special combo deal this past weekend. DFI nf3 and amd 3000+ for 240 or something. Anyway, I am having some trouble OC'ing this chip and I think its probably the chip.I ran some memtest on my 3500 eb 2x512 and it looped through #5 up to 250 so I know i am not having any problems there. I can run 220 * 10 all day long prime stable with default vcore. But after that it can only prime 230 * 10 for 2 hours @ 1.55 and fails prime after 5 mins at 240 * 10 @ 1.65.
Does this seem normal for this chip? I seem to be reading that most are reaching close to 2.4 on stock volts. It is a Newcastle 0430 btw. My power supply is a thermaltake 480 w/ 12 volt rail of 18A. Do you think this could be limiting me?
Opinions, advice are welcome.