Asus K7V + Athlon 750

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My father just bought me one of these. I'm wondering if anyone else has this combo and knows how well this combo can be overclocked? Also, what would be the best cooling device for this. I'm on a budget and I can't afford peltier or water cooling. Maybe just a good heatsink.

 

[sarielX]

I've got a 600 (unknown actual core) running @750 w/ cache @2/5 speed.
My understanding is that with a goldfinger card you should see about 850 MHz max w/o a change in your cache speed (750's come stock w/ 2/5 set)... There is a site which offers experienced users (I say this cause one wrong move and you fry your BIOS) the ability to create a BIOS file that, when flashed to your board, will give you a BIOS locked cache speed of 1/2, 2/5, or 1/3. They're atHttp://www.insanehardware.com/scoopage/k7v/k7vcachebios.shtml that is how I flashed mine... Unfortunately w/o changing to 1/3 cache speed, via this flash or crazier yet a solder hak to your chip, the cache is too unstable to exceed the 850 w/o problems...
If you stay @ or under 850 a nice heatsink w/ dual fans AND a couple of case fans mounted directly above the CPU blowing down on it should keep you cool... While heat is a major issue in O/Cing, you might also want to make a Thermal Sensor, see http://www.k7v.com/probe.asp on how to do this...
Good Luck...