- Feb 13, 2011
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Repurposed an old Athlon 64 X2 6400+ PC as a media player for my living room because my Xbox 360's power supply fan died. Decided to play around with the CPU's clock speed.
It runs at 3.2 GHz stock. Attempting to push it to 3.46 GHz (216*16) at any voltage fails under stress. RAM isn't breaking the 800 MHz it is rated for, so it isn't related to that.
Were these things binned that close to their limits? Since about 2008, I've pretty much expected every CPU I've owned to be capable of breaking 4 GHz without any trouble. That's a Phenom II X6 1090T (4.0 GHz, 25% overclock), Core i7 920 (4.0GHz, 50% overclock), and Core i5 2500K (4.4 GHz, 33% overclock), all with relatively little effort.
Late Athlon 64 X2s couldn't even manage an 8.3% overclock? Or maybe this particular piece of silicon is below average?
Not that it really matters, just a curiosity.
It runs at 3.2 GHz stock. Attempting to push it to 3.46 GHz (216*16) at any voltage fails under stress. RAM isn't breaking the 800 MHz it is rated for, so it isn't related to that.
Were these things binned that close to their limits? Since about 2008, I've pretty much expected every CPU I've owned to be capable of breaking 4 GHz without any trouble. That's a Phenom II X6 1090T (4.0 GHz, 25% overclock), Core i7 920 (4.0GHz, 50% overclock), and Core i5 2500K (4.4 GHz, 33% overclock), all with relatively little effort.
Late Athlon 64 X2s couldn't even manage an 8.3% overclock? Or maybe this particular piece of silicon is below average?
Not that it really matters, just a curiosity.