I just built a system with AMD XP 1800+ with Soltek 75DRV5, after reading some good reviews on the motherboard. Thhough I know very little about AMD overclocking, I expected to be able to achieve decent overclocking from my XP 1800+. But I was disappointed to see that I could only increase a meager 3 MHz of FSB(133 to 136) with stability. I increased the V-core voltage, but I didn't try unlock the mulitplier of the CPU. This is quite disappointing, isn't it? Is it the CPU, or the motherboard which renders this little room for overclocking? One thing more. I tried the Restorm overclocking provided by the Soltek motherboard, which supposedly increase the FSB to a workable level. When I ran the program, it increased the FSB to 145MHZ or something and just froze. It won't even boot. I had to restore the default setting. Based upon my experience of manual overclocking, it set the FSB too high and in short, it didn't work at all. Anyone out there with difference experience with this CPU/MB combo? Thanks.

And what would be the best motherboard for the AMD CPUs in terms of overclocking?

Epox MOBO are great look at overclockers.com for more opinions

I don't think its the cpu or the motherboard limiting you in overclocking. I strongly beleive its your ram or BIOS ram settings. Try to run with slower ram timming and see what happens

666, can you be more specific? As I said, I am new for this. Please let me know how I would proceed with slowing the ram timing. Thanks.

What i think 666 is trying to say is the when you up your FSB you actually will increase the pci bus the agp bus the ram bus (no pun intended). try going with PC2700 or go and by an Asus mobo they are extremly good at overclocking a cpu. Long Live Linux!!!

My 1800+ runs very well at 140FSB at 11.5 with samsung pc 2100 ddr 1 stick of 512mb