AMD Athlon Overclocking Guide

Our pick for the most economical and easy to use overclocking card out of these four goes to the K7 Overclocking Card because of its low cost and the full documentation of the settings on the back of the card. 

However, the best card out of the bunch was the Outside Loop Computers Afterburner which was the most simple and easy to use card.  The only major downside to this card is that it carries a large $80 price tag, which is simply too much for something like this. 

The most available card is the Ninja Micros FreeSpeed Pro, which benefits greatly from the wide variety of distributors that carry the card. 

The Athlon scales quite nicely as the clock speed increases, however as you hit the 2/5 L2 cache CPUs (Athlon 750 and above) we begin to notice that the scaling curve drops a bit.

A similar situation here, the scores scale fairly well but they do experience a bit of slowing down as the L2 cache drops down from a 1/2 to a 2/5 divider with the Athlon 750, 800 and the overclocked 850.