Athlon 1,2 OC

[Egrimm]

I've been experimenting with OC'ing my Athlon 1,2 and I've found several stable speeds (see below) and I wanted to hear which one of you would recommend and what speeds people with similar cpus (please state rest of set-up) have reached.

Stable speeds (haven't tested all possible combinations, gotten values from SisSoft Sandra and 3dMark 2001):
1305: 9x140 Dhrystone Alu 3665 Whetstone Fpu 1772 3dMark 3905
1330: 9,5x140 Dhrystone Alu 3737 Whetstone Fpu 1824 3dMark 3891
1350: 10x135 Dhrystone Alu 3787 Whetstone Fpu 1868 3dMark 3823
1370: 10x137 Dhrystone Alu 3852 Whetstone Fpu 1896 3dMark 3853

With higher multiplier I seem not to be able to reach as high FSB (10x140 will not boot most of the time). Can't get 10,5x working.
I use the sytem for gaming and graphics (PhotoShop) so I think I'll choose the 1370 as it's the best overall performer.
See the rest of the setup at my rigs, Baudros. Uses driver version 12,00 for the graphics card.

 

[xizor]

I'm a little confused on your first benchmark 9x140 = 1260, not 1305, i'm guessing you mean 9x145. Its hard to judge which benchmarks are more important. Sandra is only theoretical, not real world, so while it does show that faster mhz get more points, 3d mark shows that you don't really see any impovement. Actually, in 3dmark the FSB makes a very big difference in scores, which might make 3dmark a little biased towards FSB. Try out some Q3 timedemo's, that's would I would choose.

xizor