good rig for overclocking?

[adamc91115]

i just ordered this this other day - should be here friday

CPU - Athlon XP 2600+ (333mhz fsb)
Mobo - Epox 8K9A2+
Ram - 3x512 pc2700 ddr
Vid Card - ATI Radeon 9000 128MB

u think this will be a good rig for overclocking?

[JCB]

If you can change it... get the Epox 8rda+

[adamc91115]

nah... too late. whats better about that board than the one i'm getting?

[JCB]

Everything. Especially the fact that you don't have to worry about frying cards and drives when pushing the fsb sky high.

[Disk11]

Yeah. It has independantly set pci and agp buses. Your board uses a 1/5 divider for pci bus, 2/5 for agp bus. Hopefully your other components run well out of spec

Or you could change the mulitplier and leave the fsb alone

Also, who made the RAM? If it was inexpensive, . If you have Curcial, Corsair, Samsung, Giel, or HyperX, you have a little headroom.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I agree with the 8rda3+ call, excellent board for overclockign on. Also i would have replaced the CPU with a Barton 2500+, which are overclockign like crazy up to 3200+ speeds

--Jakk

[adamc91115]

thanks a bunch guys!


even though it is a little late lol

[Izdaari]

The core point that makes the 8RDA+ better is that it's an nVidia nForce2 chipset, not a VIA. That also IMO makes it more reliable aside from overclocking. Features do differ from board to board though even with the same chipset, and the 8RDA+ is a particular favorite of overclockers.

[JCB]

It's never too late. Send it back now before it is too late. Otherwise you'll be kicking yourself in the **** for a long time to come.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Gaet an 8rda3+ rather than the 8rda+, its VDD adjustment option in the BIOS is a big help when o/c'ing nad one thats sorely missing from the 8rda+

--Jakk

[JCB]

I agree but... are they even available yet? If not, go for the Abit NF7 2.0.