[Silvestre]

i OC my AMD 64 3500+ to 2700MHz (300MHzx9). It's super stable and has never given any lock-up and such...a 500MHz surely is a nice boost and i can see the difference. This Clawhammer is pretty much a nice OCer, but seems like the new Venice has quite some potential too...way better OCer than the prev. Winchester. 512KB L2 Cache, however, is pretty much boring for me...so i think i'm going to get a San Diego 3700+ and clock it to 3GHz stable

 

[Silvestre]

Damn good overclock
which bios settings are you using?

well...it'd be long to explain the settings...DFI nF4 Ultra-D has tons of em
2700MHz is my daily clockrate while for benching, i can still push it up to 2850MHz..it's no way stable for daily use...but it does pretty well for benching...hehehehe

 

[Silvestre]

it's actually not bad at all...the key of OCing is a sufficient Cooling System...Seriously, your chip age won't really be shortened by doing OC, but it's how you cool it that matters...As long as you cool it sufficiently, no matter how high you OC a chip, it won't really be dead in, perhaps, couple of months or so...so it's actually okay and say, if a chip were supposed to last like for 10yrs, i wouldn't really mind shorthening it to 5yrs by doing OC I have no plan of keeping it for 5yrs anyway...hehehhe...still, i don't recommend everybody to OC like hell, OK?! (I just don't want anybody saying ****ty things if i say "I have no plan of keeping it for 5yrs anyway" )

Mosfet cooling is quite needed if you OC with a pretty high voltage...but i don't really know how high is too high for your CPU in particular (Intel in general )...i'd suggest you to try to give some cooling and see if it does bring more room for your OC...but like you said, it wasn't that hot...so could be unnecessary
btw, seems like that A-DATA uses TCCD chips...which aren't that good to be paired with Intel...it's such a shame to have such nice mem which are actually rated to run @250MHz running @ 'only' 229MHz (some people do consider that pretty good though ..it's quite relative anyway)...AFAIK, people OC Intel procs by changing the multi...but maybe it's not applicable to your chip...man i don't know too much bout Intel chips...i've always been playing with AMD Procs so far...XP-Mobile, Winnie 3000+, 3200+ and now Clawhammer 3500+...oh well...sorry...

 

[Silvestre]

TCCD isn't rare at all...They're just mostly expensive...and there are also better and better rev. although the previous ones aren't that bad either...most can go around 270++MHz...but not that good when paired with Intel chipset...

 

[Silvestre]

>>>I think of unlocking the 4 extra pipelines in my Radeon 9800se, which is possible and has been tested already.

Unlocking the 4 extra pipelines is very successful for most people and it really gives a great performence boost, you should unlock them fast

>>>Also I want to get a DC @ 240 or 280 mhz one day, and yes, that IS possible

I never heard of a DC, is it some kind of core? maybe you meant sd?(san diego)

DC is perhaps Dual Channel or Dual Core...