Some advice really as although google is acetastic its sometimes difficult to find the right answer.
I am currently runnigng the following rig :
Abit Av8 3rd Eye S939
AMD64 3000+ (Venice Core) @ 1.8ghz (at stock although it isnt at stock anymore)
1Gb Crucial Ballistix High performance RAM PC3200 Dual Channel Kit
Tagan 420w PSU
2 SATA Samsung Spinpoint 250gb drives
Galaxy Geforce 6600GT
In addition to those i have just installed watercooling so both the Geforce and CPU are cooler than a cucumber.
Now as i have googled extensively i know that the venice can be overclocked a huge amount.
This is what iv edone so far but want some help going a bit further if possible :
I have dropped the LTD to 3x from 5x.
Ive dropped the memory from DDR400 to DDR266.
The HTT has risen from 200 to 267.1mhz with a x9.0 multiplyer (its locked at x9 for venice)
As such ive gone from a 1.8ghz processor to one running at 2.4ghz.
Im quite pleased and seemingly its stable.
Temperature readings on it currently stand at 21degreesC at idle.
However I have a problem that hopefully a delivery from quietpc tomorrow ill fix. (When installing the watercooling block on the geforce i had to remove the heatsink and fan. However the heatsink also covered all of the ram chips and some other chip i think called the HTU or something on the graphics card. The waterblock only covers the GPU so all these other things keep overheating from time to time and the pc freezes.....) soooo no stress testing yet so no 'upper limit' numbers on temp but i doubt itll go much above 40 if at all.
The memory frequency is running at 171.7mhz (on all stock settings this is 200mhz)
the FSB
RAM is CPU/14
So what i want to know is how hard can i push this system. I got to 2.5ghz which was stable and did POST but when it hit windows i had a Driver less or equal IRQL error message and the BSOD.
Baring in mine that currently everything is also at stock voltages.
(CPU is at 1.4 varying to 1.44 at times according to the abit monitor)
What do i need to do to get rid of the BSOD problems and also how can i get the memory upto 200mhz as it was before.