WOW FX53 rocks!!!!

[SilverBack]

I got it up and running yesterday, but had to go to work.
Playing with settings now.

[ WCPUID Version 3.3 (c) 1996-2004 By H.Oda! ]

Name String : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-53 Processor

Internal Clock : 2699.99 MHz
System Bus : 225.00 MHz
System Clock : 225.00 MHz
Multiplier : 12.0

L1 I-Cache : 64K Byte
L1 D-Cache : 64K Byte
L1 T-Cache : ----
L1 Cache : ----
L2 Cache : 1024K Byte
L2 Speed : 2699.99 MHz (Full)

 

[HKPolice]

Ya, also costs an arm, a leg, and ur left nut....

 

[SilverBack]

Willing to pay and did

 

[Megatomic]

My lord... What did you upgrade from?

 

[Celeryman]

Very nice dude, you on water? I bet that thing screams.

 

[SilverBack]

I upgraded from this
My P4 system 2.8C at 3.5

Yeah it's on water, I'm using a DangerDen A64 water block

So my system thus far:
FX53 production date 4/12
Asus SK8V
2 (512) Corsair XMS 3200LL RE Cas 2
2 (samsung 120 gb 8mb cache ) RAID 0
Nec 2500A 8x DVD Burner
TEAC 48x 16x CDRW DVD
ATI 9800 Pro ( I've preordered a 800XT from www.aacdirect.com )

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: SilverBack
I upgraded from this
My P4 system 2.8C at 3.5

Yeah it's on water, I'm using a DangerDen A64 water block

So my system thus far:
FX53 production date 4/12
Asus SK8V
2 (512) Corsair XMS 3200LL RE Cas 2
2 (samsung 120 gb 8mb cache ) RAID 0
Nec 2500A 8x DVD Burner
TEAC 48x 16x CDRW DVD
ATI 9800 Pro ( I've preordered a 800XT from www.aacdirect.com )

you should get a mcw50-t for your ATi card they RULE... i have dedicated watercooling just for my gpu... and let me tell ya... it's sweet

 

[Celeryman]

At that speed it is sending your p4 running for momma. Tell us if you pull anymore out of it.

 

[SilverBack]

I have the DangerDen Maze 4 GPU cooler, it works great.
I bought a second Maze 4 with the peltier unit, but I've been told there is a possibility it won't fit on the 800XT. Time will tell

 

[SilverBack]

I can hit 2.8 but it locks in 3DMark 2003.
2.7 seems to work just great.
Temp at IDLE is 46C and 50C when running the benchmarks.
I'm running 1.712v for the cpu.


I am having fun playing with it

 

[JackBurton]

Either you have alot of money or you have a huge credit card bill every month.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Either you have alot of money or you have a huge credit card bill every month.

LOL, no kidding. Got any benchmarks for us yet at 2.7Ghz SilverBack?

 

[SilverBack]

I'm going to start benchmarking in earnest this evening, after getting a few hours sleep. I work nights and I don't work this evening and I have the next 4 days off.

My video card is bottlenecking me right now. A prelim 3dMark 2003 was 6800.
BUT the system sure does seem fast.

One very interesting thing of note. Before any overclocking at all, when I got the system up and running and I installed Win XP Pro, the ENTIRE XP install with sp1 slipstreamed in took 8 1/2 minutes. I couldn't believe it. Roughly twice as fast as my P4 system

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: SilverBack
I'm going to start benchmarking in earnest this evening, after getting a few hours sleep. I work nights and I don't work this evening and I have the next 4 days off.

My video card is bottlenecking me right now. A prelim 3dMark 2003 was 6800.
BUT the system sure does seem fast.

One very interesting thing of note. Before any overclocking at all, when I got the system up and running and I installed Win XP Pro, the ENTIRE XP install with sp1 slipstreamed in took 8 1/2 minutes. I couldn't believe it. Roughly twice as fast as my P4 system

Skip the GPU benchmarks untill you get your X800.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

:shocked:

 

[Jayavarman]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Either you have alot of money or you have a huge credit card bill every month.

He had a rich uncle who just died and left him a fortune. I am jealous of the punk!
Pre-ordered a 800XT! Wow!!!!!! I wish I have $500 to burn.

 

[Acanthus]

Id love to see some gaming performance numbers on the FX-53.

And bah to you for not taking the NVIDIA + NVIDIA GPU/Chipset plunge to show us the proprietary performance increases we all want to see

 

[SilverBack]

Here's the story on the money.
My wife and I filed our taxes this year and our return was $814.
We had borrowed a little more than that around Christmas from my mom this last year. So we knew we would pay her back with the return.
When we opened it it said $2814.
Our acccountant had forgot to carry a 2!!!!!
Yes we verified the amount with the IRS.

So my wife and I split the difference, I had been saving for the system, but the extra $1000 let me buy it

 

[Acanthus]

beautiful silver

 

[Granorense]

Originally posted by: SilverBack
Here's the story on the money.
My wife and I filed our taxes this year and our return was $814.
We had borrowed a little more than that around Christmas from my mom this last year. So we knew we would pay her back with the return.
When we opened it it said $2814.
Our acccountant had forgot to carry a 2!!!!!
Yes we verified the amount with the IRS.

So my wife and I split the difference, I had been saving for the system, but the extra $1000 let me buy it

Very honest answer SilverBack!

 

[Megatomic]

Nice. :beer:

Remember, you reap what you sow.

 

[jdiddy]

Nice pickup nothing beats unexpected money.

 

[high]

nice man....its a good day in silverback's house....I wanna see some 3dmark 01, 03 scores when u get the x800 plz as I am gonna be grabbing one myself and tossing it in my 2.5ghz mobile rig.

 

[stardust]

Hey, glad it worked out. Post some benchies!

Did you try lowering the multipiers to hit your highest fsb? If its capable of 250fsb or above, go for some DDR500+ memory!

Nice overclock! voltages?

 

[SickBeast]

Wow...2.7GHZ on an AthlonFX...that's incredible. Now you need an X800XT or 6800U...you definately won't be CPU-limited!!! Congrats, dude.