pls stop posting you are spitting out the wrong idea you starting to sound like RPG
you had
1VIDEO CARD Benchmark that was it and as the name sais it was for
VideoCards
OH and s754 newcastles are VERY hard to oc consistantly well 2.45ghz max 2.48ghz on my X newcastle they are very voltage tempramental and the stepping makes a HUGE diff
newest stepping does 2.45ghz (PIB cooling) @1.65V
oldest stepping does 2.48ghz (PIB cooling) @1.58V
duno m8, could be the board ur clocking with.
vnf3-250
4x3000+ newcastles all 2.55-2.65gz on 1.5-1.65v using PIB cooler
also had a 3000+ that was a FIRST RUN chip(varifyed by amd tech even said i shouldnt have gotten one of them because when wherent ment for retail distro, it was alwase querky but at 1.65 it would do 2.55gz, it died(alwase was querky even at stock clocks/volts) they sent me a 3700+ clawhammer!!!! 2.4gz to 2.65 was easy any higher, well u better have phasechange or something like it because that sucker wasnt going past that point(stil got that in my 1 vnf3-250 i kept
(first one o ever used, good board, i fryed one of the front usb ports, then solder fixed the trace i shorted out(dont ask) still a fast stable board )
none of these where cheery picked chips all just off the shelf parts, also used alot of them from frys OEM sales(came with ecs nf3 board, decent clocker that) never saw one i couldnt get to 2.5x gz on PIB cooling, at least not on a 1/2 decent nf3 or nf4 board.
via, well dont even bother talking about overclocking and via to me, its like slaming ur head in a car door.
sis, nobody made a good clocking board with the 755 or 756 chipsets(bastages, the 756 refrance board clocked GREAT)
Uli till the last gen for 754 didnt clock well because nobody bothered to emplement the pci/agp locks properly.
the only chipsets for 754 worth talking about are the last gen ULI(epox made a good clocking board with them,) and Nforc3/4/6100 then you gotta look at what board ur getting, tforce6100 acctualy got 3 of the 3000+ chips that had been stuck at 2.55 up to 2.65+ at same volts(probbly more stable vcore or something) my buddy rod is stillusing the last 3000+ i setup in his 6100 board with a 1600 video card( 96bucks for a x1600pro iceq card last july, good value)
gues what im saying is that you cant go by what you have seen on 1 or 2 boards, because i have seen some boards clock INSAINLY WELL but not be known well or known well for overclocking, and others that got great overclocking reps give meger/poor overclocks(msi neo plat....pfffft POS)
vnf3 and vnf4 kicked arse for their day, and where 70-80bucks new, msi neoplat was 120-150new and didnt overclock neerly as well!!!! hell i have seen the vnf3/4 boards outclock their DFI counterparts at 1/3-1/4 the cost!!!!! (misses chaintech motherboards.....)