I'm overclocking an Athlon 64 3000+ venice core. Right now I've got it running at 2.26ghz from 1.8. Under a full load it tops out at 35c/95f. My question to you is this, AMD specifies that max temp for my cpu is ~45-65 I think. Does this mean some max out at 45 and others at 65? If so, how close can I get to 45 safely?

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Well you shouldnt try to get near that at all you really dont know if the chip is running hotter then it is reporting... play is safe and dont try to fry your cpu.

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The max temperature for Athlon64 should be around 70C (http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=328445)... If you have 35C full load, plenty room to go. But one very important thing to mention is that not to add more than 1.75v for your athlon64, else you will burn out ur CPU even though your temperature is extremely low. It's possible that the transistor inside gets blown even though the temperature is low under beyond absolute max voltage...

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Much like the P4's, you can't burn up or "fry" the A64's because of the hardware-enforced thermal protection mechanism built into those CPU's.

The Athlon 64 has an on-die thermal probe for accurate temperature monitoring, so when and if the processor’s die temperature exceeds a specified threshold, the processor by design stops its internal clocks heat damage.

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thanks guys. I havent even touched the voltages yet...no need to atm.

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I'm up to 2.4ghz now @ +.025v. It seems to be runnin a bit skitchy at times. Some things pause before loading up (things that shouldnt take a pause such as right clicking on the desktop.) whats goin on? current settings are 267 x 9 w/ mem at 400mhz and fsb at 3x (801.) temp under full load for 2 hours is 37c/98f.
Cooling in my system is 2 120mm fans 1 front 1 rear and a 120mm fan in my 500w atrix psu.

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I dont think a liquid cooled system would allow the internal clock to be raised much more than 3000 mhz, and for the cost of the water cooling kit there is no point. Lets face it overclocking is trying to get something for free, so why pay £100 for a water cooling kit when you could get a 64 bit porcessor with 1mb chashe for the price of that kit. Dont bother, just get a good stock cooler and be happy with what you got.

who said anything about water cooling? I want to get the most out of my hardware with the cooling i have. What i have is plenty sufficient the trick for me is the settings and such. BTW going from 1.8 to 3.0ghz is more than i had in mind. I assumed 2.6-2.8 max and i'd even settle for 2.4 if i could get it working properly.

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Got it working properly at 2.4 with 300x8 rather than 267x9 with the .025 v increase. also added a 512 stick of pc2700 running at 400mhz w/ 3-3-3-8 timings.

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