I did some preliminary o/cing of the venus 3000+.
max i could reach was 306htt with the default multiplier of 9 , giving a core speed of 2754.4 mhz.
The temps even at the speed was well under 50C.
at htt of 310 and 320 even the xp welcome screen was displayed but upon actual os loading to the desktop i got file corruption / missing errors. hence i stopped fearing another reload of xp , which is very time consuming for me.
I think my 2 year old ocz memory is the limiting factor here as it does not go very high due to it being low latency rams.
the above was achieved @ 5:6 (mem:fsb) clock divider.
effectively my ram was running at 255 mhz. (am myself surprised at this)
1 thing good about this is that if one has good and compatible rams rated at 275 mhz or above with low latencies of 2-2-2 .... then running it at ">" 275 mhz 1:1 will be easy.
well back to some more burn in and testing ........