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 IE
  • lifeguard1999 - 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.

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