lowest Frequency on Athlon 64

[brazzmunk]

The lowest i can get with clockgen is 4x.. i'm wondering if i can get it lower than that.. to something like 1.5 or 1x??.... I know it seams weird but i wanted to see how it was back in the day🙂🙂🙂

 

[Quentin]

Back in what day! 😀 For grins, the first IBM PCs ran at Intel CPUs 4.77 MHz and compatible AMD CPUs ran at about that speed, too. I had an AMD back in the late 80's that ran at 8 MHz (maybe that was an 8087 coprocessor). Guess you'd have to run 1x multiplier and 5 to 10 HTT!

I think the first Athlon (Slot A) was 500 MHz, wasn't it? I can duplicate that with my current Socket A system using 5x100 and it was fun watching Windows load and load and load. Slow but ran ok! Was nice to get back to 10x230.

 

[brazzmunk]

yeah i'm not planning to go as far as 8Mhz, but somewhere arround 400 would be "nice"
i can't get lower than 160Mhz HTT on a8v deluxe, and the lowest multi is 4

 

[DrMrLordX]

Back in the day, huh? Gee, I wish I still had my 386dx40 with 4 megs of RAM.

. . .

wait, no I don't.

Sadly, a 400mhz Athlon64 will still outperform just about every CPU that was released at 400 mhz stock, due to IPC and other improvements in subsystems throughout your PC. It would kick the crap out of some k62-400, P2-400, or overclocked Celeron 300a.

 

[Leper Messiah]

lol. I think the lowest I've ever seen is a 3x multi, but cool and quiet's lowest speed is 800mhz.

I remember my first amd comp, a socket 3 overclocked 486. Ran at like 133mhz, had a PR of like 75 or 90. Ran alright with win 95.

 

[brazzmunk]

lowest i could get 4x160 (643Mhz)

 

[Concillian]

That makes for an interesting comparison, that an A64 at 643 MHz is about equal to a P3/Athlon at 800-900 Mhz or so.

 

[rpv]

probably a few years from now I would be looking back at my present setup and say"those days"

 

[mwmorph]

if you really want to old school pc'ing, ive got a intel 486 dx2 66mhz if you want it.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: rpv
probably a few years from now I would be looking back at my present setup and say"those days"

Oh yeah, you will. One moment in time I always remember is when I wanted to spend most of my savings during college to upgrade my 386 and build a killer 486 machine for playing DOOM. I didn't and I am glad. Every time I purchase computer parts I think of that particular experience and exactly how much worth a 486 has now. This gets me heavily focused on what I really need and the value of the parts I'm going to purchase.