Athlon 64 3500+ Overclockers - Post your Overclocking Results Here

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Anand Lal Shimpi

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We're doing a story on overclocking the Athlon 64 3500+ and want to hear from all the 3500+ overclockers in this forum. If you do own a Socket-939 Athlon 64 3500+ (130nm) and are currently overclocking it please post the following:

Overclocked FSB speed
Overclocked CPU speed
CPU voltage
Motherboard used to overclock

Please don't post peak overclocks, but rather stable overclocks. The statistics gathered here will be used in a review being published next week.

Thanks for your help :)
Anand
 
ponyo

ponyo

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What's considered stable overclock? Prime stable? I know lot of people who consider booting into window and running their favorite game stable. I say at minimum it should be 6-12 hour Prime stable.
 
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Hanzou

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Its kinda hard to determine a stable overclock. I also think running prime for around 10hrs makes it stable. But also if you overclock your chip and it runs stable for everythign you use your computer for, then I guess it is considered stable.
 
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magomago

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Originally posted by: Hanzou
Its kinda hard to determine a stable overclock. I also think running prime for around 10hrs makes it stable. But also if you overclock your chip and it runs stable for everythign you use your computer for, then I guess it is considered stable.
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I viewed 72 straight hours of prime as stable~ there are many times when it failed between 20-30 hours to me and i would not be satisfied without it...
 
Hyperlite

Hyperlite

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you do realize that it will round incorrectly eventually no matter what the system...it may take years, but from a technical standpoint, there is no point in going over 10 hours.
 
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Mik3y

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Originally posted by: Naustica
What's considered stable overclock? Prime stable? I know lot of people who consider booting into window and running their favorite game stable. I say at minimum it should be 6-12 hour Prime stable.
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i guess stable as in running everything ok and no crashes or anything.
 
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n7

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I don't think many people here have A64 3500+ CPUs...most have gone for the better price/performance combo that the 754 3400+ gives, or so it seems to me.

 
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OOBradm

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I have an athlong 3500+, but its not Oc'ed.... i havent taken the time to figure out how to do it.
 
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DyslexicHobo

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I have an Athlon 3500+ OC'd to 2400....

I don't know how to unlock it or whatever to get the multiplier, so I'm just using the 10% overclock that came with my motherboard (ASUS A8V Deluxe).

But if someone wants to explain how to change the voltage/multiplier/FSB to get the best out of my CPU, I'll do whatever you tell me to and post my results. :)
 
Zebo

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Some I've seen ... Not all that popular when a 3400 NC can beat it in both price and performance.

ADA3500EP4AW CBAEC 0421 MPMW 2950 MHz (268.0 x 11.0) 1.70 V memory 210 MHz 2.5-2-2- 5 1T 2.80 V (d]g[ts)

LINK"

ADA3500EP4AW CBAEC 0421 MPMW 2530 MHz (230.0 x 11.0) 1.70 V memory 210 MHz 2.5-2-2- 5 1T 2.80 V (d]g[ts)

LINK"

ADA3500EP4AW ????? ???? ???? 2550 MHz (255.0 x 10.0) 1.65 V memory 212 MHz 2.0-3-2-10 1T 2.85 V (trinketsummoner)

LINK

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anthrax

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=>AMD Athlon 64+ 3500
=>Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939
=>Corsair XMS3200XL (1024MB Twin-X)

240 HTT Speed
2520 MHZ (240 FSB x 10.5)
1.60Volts V-core
Aircooled with Cooler Master Hyper 6
HHT Multiplier @ x4
RAM:HTT Ratio @ 166:200

(This Mobo has issues at running DDR3200 @ 200MHz.. see here 150 + post on the topic here.)
http://www.houseofhelp.com/for...forumdisplay.php?f=130




 
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paramdog

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Overclocking Results:
240 HTT Speed
2400 MHZ (240 FSB x 10)
1.60Volts V-core
Aircooled Zalman CNPS-7000A-CU
HHT Multiplier @ x4
RAM:HTT Ratio @ 200:200(1:1)

My System Specs
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (939)
1 GIG Crucial Ballistix PC4000(running at DDR480 PC3200 2.5-2-2-6)
Zalman CNPS7000A-CU
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
128MB eVGA Nvidia 6800
1 74 GB WD Raptor SATA 10,000 RPM
Antec NeoPower 480
Thermaltake Tsunami Series Case
 
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paramdog

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Originally posted by: Zebo

Some I've seen ... Not all that popular when a 3400 NC can beat it in both price and performance.
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The 3400 does not beat the 3500+ in performace, read reviews before you make a statement like that, it has no on-board memory controller which makes the 939 socket a lot better, only thing is that 3500 has 512 cache but the 3500 is indeed faster in 9/10 tests. the 3400 is only fast on a couple of tests according to many benchmarks ive seen(ie. Anandtech). Besides its the new socket, why wud u build a new rig with socket754 rite now? ud have no upgradiblity, yeah u save some money but if u gonna build a new one def go with the socket939. they are amazing according to my experience with them. Check out Anandtech's comparison to prove Zebo completely wrong!!! Anandtech: 3500+ vs 3400
 
Zebo

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:roll:


That's not the chip I was referring to. The "other" 3400 you know the one with a 10% Mhz advantage which dual channels 5% advantage can't hope to match since CPU benchmarks scale linearly with CPU speed.

Look at it whoopin up on the 3500 Text

Full review
http://hardware.fr/articles/496/page2.html
 
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glugglug

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Maximum FSB overclock which can run Windows is 225 - 226 won't even post. Maximum STABLE FSB overclock is 214. These are with the default multiplier of 11, for a maximum speed of 2475MHz, maximum stable speed of 2354Mhz.

Don't know why the FSB can not be raised above this speed, even if I lower the multiplier, I have 500MHz RAM, I should try it again now that I just got around to upgrading the BIOS today. (was using BIOS 1.0 before).

I only use default voltage, overvolting sounds too likely to fry stuff IMO.

Edit: Just confirmed that the 1.2 BIOS is even less stable overclocked than 1.0. Got a crash when raising the bus speed passing 208. Didn't even make it to 214. On the theory that maybe this is just because I was adjusting it on the fly, I tried changing the setting in the BIOS instead of in Windows. Still doesn't post past 225. The auto-recognition of this and change to safe mode is much nicer than the way the old BIOS required me to jumper it to reset all the settings.

Another note: It doesn't like the clockspeed varying on the fly much. Turning on DOT (even the default 3% dynamic overclock setting) makes it too unstable to compile linux stuff even with all other settings default. However if the speed is not varying on the fly it is stable at 2354MHz.
 
flexy

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anand,

consider the following interesting aspect:

Compare A64 overclocks with low latency, expensive CAS2 PC3200 to value Cas2.5 PC3500.

The Cas2 PC3200 can be more than twice as expensive as the value PC3500 starting at $75 or so.
I want to see proof that everyone who spends $180 on a stick of super-low latency PC3200 is a fool :)

btw. i assume that people who buy low-latency CL2 PC3200 do this with the intention to have headroom for OC, of course.
 
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anthrax

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Originally posted by: glugglug
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
Maximum FSB overclock which can run Windows is 225 - 226 won't even post. Maximum STABLE FSB overclock is 214. These are with the default multiplier of 11, for a maximum speed of 2475MHz, maximum stable speed of 2354Mhz.

Don't know why the FSB can not be raised above this speed, even if I lower the multiplier, I have 500MHz RAM, I should try it again now that I just got around to upgrading the BIOS today. (was using BIOS 1.0 before).

I only use default voltage, overvolting sounds too likely to fry stuff IMO.

Edit: Just confirmed that the 1.2 BIOS is even less stable overclocked than 1.0. Got a crash when raising the bus speed passing 208. Didn't even make it to 214. On the theory that maybe this is just because I was adjusting it on the fly, I tried changing the setting in the BIOS instead of in Windows. Still doesn't post past 225. The auto-recognition of this and change to safe mode is much nicer than the way the old BIOS required me to jumper it to reset all the settings.

Another note: It doesn't like the clockspeed varying on the fly much. Turning on DOT (even the default 3% dynamic overclock setting) makes it too unstable to compile linux stuff even with all other settings default. However if the speed is not varying on the fly it is stable at 2354MHz.
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Did you reduce the HHT mutiplier from x5 to x4 instead..?

 
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Gnosis

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Yep.. I too have a 3500+ 939 and a Asus A8V Deluxe.

Haven't bothered with a *real* OC but the 10% (or is it 11%?)
in bios works fine for me. Played Far Cry for about 1h on that
setting.

I don't regulary have it set to that though. There is a setting
"adaptive oc" in bios that a use instead.

I REALLY don't se any point in doing any furter oc-experiments.
It more than fast enough as it is. I can play DOOM3 at 1280x960
with everything on max and still keep three torrents working over
a 2,5Mbit connection in the background. It doesn't even feel
stressed.... what more do you need?
 
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