Shadowgrip

I love my AMD 64 3400+ like they said, a good HS never hurt anyone. And it performs great, all the benchmarks i've seen put it at gaming better than the pentiums that cost much more. So, bang for the buck, I'd say AMD all the way. This is the …

I love my 3400+ it's the newcastle core and i got it up to 2.69 GHz stable, I read somewhere, it may have been another forum where the sata controller was being oc'd along with the fsb, and the second controller on the mobo was locked at the stock speed, …

I just did my first OC this weekend, I thought it was quite fun, b/c it's a challenge to push your system as far as it will go, and check it to make sure it's still stable, without messing anything up. I did get an aftermarket cpu cooler with overclocking …

I've got a 64 3400+ newcastle I just got Friday, and I have it oc'd to 2.69, granted I have an xp-120 and a thermaltake 120 mm fan on it, but as this is my first oc attempt, i'm chalking it up to a success, and I say, what better …

how far up can you push your voltages and not fry them? I've moved my proc voltage up 2 notches, and my ram voltage up 1

I waited till I got my XP-120, it's not compatible with all mobo's, but with that i got my fsb setting up to 224 running 2.69 stable. I was at 2.73 but it scrashed during UT2K3, so I backed it back down. It runs prime for a few hours before …

there are 2 cores for the amd socket 754's 1 had 1mb of L2 cache and a slower clock speed, one has 512 MB of L2 but 200mhz gain in clock speed, so a 3000+ newcastle core is 2000 MHz my 3400+ newcastle core is 2.4 stock, right now it's …

I had an old MSI socket A board that supported up to 4 gig's of ram, but I never got more than 512 in it, didn't need it back then. Def the DFI Lan party for either socket 754 or 939. From what i've read about the new boards they …

If all your going to be doing is web browsing and some minor gaming, then yes a socket A is all you need, and it's still a decent platform. I just recently build a 2500 socket A system for a friend of mine who plays the original counterstrike and checks …

When you say it's better, better in what sense? I've actually heard that the Newcastle core is better for gaming, it's more overclockable and has a higher speed (2.4 GHz vs 2.2)

Amd says that their proc's can run up to 70 C, at 70 they shut down for safety, but 56 should be fine. I had an old 2100 that ran from the factory at 64C i have a 3400 amd 64 oc'd to 2.69 and i run at 56C under …