Athlon64 3000+: 64-bit at Half the Price
by Wesley Fink on December 22, 2003 8:15 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Overclocking Results
One of the questions many are asking about Newcastle is how it overclocks. It will be a while until we can really answer the question of how well the Athlon64 3000+ will overclock. However, we can tell you that early testing is very encouraging.Front Side Bus Overclocking Testbed | |
Maximum Overclock | |
Processor: | Athlon64 3000+ 2.0GHz — 512k L2 Cache |
CPU Voltage: | 1.6V (1.5V default) |
Cooling: | Cooler Master Silent K8 Heatsink/Fan |
Power Supply: | Enermax 465W |
Maximum OC: | 2200MHz (+10.0%) 10x220 or 9x239 |
While we have not been pleased so far with the overclocking abilities of the VIA K8T800 on the Socket 754 platform, our 3000+ was able to reach a stable overclock of 220 (880HT) at 1.6V. The latest Soltek BIOS on the SL-K8AV2-RL also has multiplier adjustments to allow setting lower multipliers on Athlon64 chips. The Socket 754 chips are apparently top-locked, but clever programmers have found ways to choose lower multipliers. Using a 9.0 multiplier, we were able to boot in Windows XP and run a few basic tests at a setting of 9x239. It is too early to draw hard conclusions about the overclocking ability of the 3000+, but these results, compared to our testing of the 3200+, are pretty impressive.
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morcegovermelho - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
page 4 - Science Mark 2; page 5 - Aquamark; page 7 - Winstone 2004; Where are the 3.0Ghz P4 results?Why isn't the P4 2.8C included? It's in the same price range.
lifeguard1999 - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
Interesting. The charts DO show up in both IE and Firebird when I click through the pages one-by-one, but not when I click the "Print this article" link (which is how I read the articles). Go figure. Thanks for the help Curt.Curt Oien - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
I see charts with IElifeguard1999 - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
This would be a nice article, but I do not see any charts in either IE or Mozilla Firebird. Is anyone else seeing this problem. or is it just me? Or is it that there are no benchmarking charts?sheh - Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - link
The article is missing the images, as of 8/2016.