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AMD FX-60 Overclocking on Stock Heatsink and Voltage
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:00 pm
by Apoptosis
Not like I have any free time recently, but I spent tonight overclocking the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Processor.
Test System:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Processor
ASUS AN832-SLI Deluxe Motherboad
Corsair XMS 3200LL Memory
Western Digital 250GB SATA Hard Drive
BFG Tech 7800 GTX OC PCIe Graphics Card
OCZ Technology PowerStream 600W PSU
I left everything at default and raised the memory to 2.85V in the BIOS and started raising the FSB...
First I tried 210MHz:
It worked so I went to 220MHz:
Stable at 220MHz so on to 230MHz:
At 230MHz the BIOS required a bit of tweaking to get above 230MHz, but we got an extra 3MHz without having to increase the voltage to the processor at all.
The top overclock at default voltages:
As you can tell our AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 overclocks to 3.029GHz at default CPU voltages and with the stock heat sink fan. Not a bad overclock for not really even trying. Time to change over to the DFI Expert nF4 motherboard and to strap on the water cooler!
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:06 pm
by infinitevalence
wow, 3ghz on stock voltage!!!!
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:13 pm
by Bio-Hazard
That's what I saw on another site, maybe the CPU is a better clocker that people thought. Some high-end water should get you alot farther, you would think anyway...................
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:14 pm
by Apoptosis
yeah this thing is an easy overclocker to get to 3GHz... No fuss and less than 30 minutes of work to get it all up and running stable at 3GHz.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:17 pm
by Bio-Hazard
That thing must turn in some impressive benchmarks at those speeds.............
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:21 pm
by sbohdan
ok, so i might consider getting one, once it drops below $500
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:22 pm
by Apoptosis
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:23 pm
by Bio-Hazard
Newegg is really taking advantage of people these days...............
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:09 am
by Bwall
You have no idea how much I want that CPU...
After you give it a go on your water cooling let's' try it under my Storm and see if that helps out the overclock any. :D
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:30 am
by FZ1
Wow...very nice. Keep in mind though that it's about a 15% OC (ok, on stock volts) and in the case of the Opterons, the first production models were the monster OC'ers and the following batches were not as good although there were a few that still did very well. These could turn out the same way.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:32 am
by Bio-Hazard
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:37 am
by gvblake22
Bio, that rig is truly impressive! Gotta love the dual rad setup too!
Anyway, awesome clocks on that FX-60 so far Nate! Should be very interesting to see what AMD's cream of the crop dual core processors can do!!!
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:52 am
by Bio-Hazard
I bet he can get it to 3.2 or so with good water................
No limit if he were to use Phase Change.................
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:07 am
by Bwall
Yeah yeah Bio ;) You're double rads definitely whoops my single BIX with low flow Panaflow. I just need a MM case, the rads and our loops would be pretty much identical.
By the way, your setup is awesome. I've been trying to talk myself into getting one of those cases.
Off topic: any idea what gains I'd see cooling CPU only going to a PA120/PA160 using an 80cfm Panaflow?
Back on topic:
I hear the FX-60's have a serious cold bug with phase.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:16 am
by Apoptosis
BIO..... You are more than happy to bring the system by if you want to help me O/C this FX-60 one afternoon.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:57 am
by Bio-Hazard
That's totally possible after I get the flu out of my house.......
I can't think of any better way to spend a afternoon.........
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:57 pm
by -mogwai
Apoptosis wrote:BIO..... You are more than happy to bring the system by if you want to help me O/C this FX-60 one afternoon.
"you are more than happy to bring the system by" hahaha
anyone else catch that?
nate, tell him how he REALLY feels ;)
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:45 pm
by gvblake22
audiophile wrote:Apoptosis wrote:BIO..... You are more than happy to bring the system by if you want to help me O/C this FX-60 one afternoon.
"you are more than happy to bring the system by" hahaha
anyone else catch that?
nate, tell him how he REALLY feels ;)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I totally missed that! Pretty funny
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:58 am
by topsub
sucks i spent almosy 800 the day before on the duel core 4800+ if i wanted a day longer i could have got this...
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:41 am
by TheGeekMistress
heh, that FX-60 oc's like a dream. last of it's kind tho now that the M2 940pin DDR2 cpu's are on thier way. too bad everything costs so much.
what do you guys think about the newark 4000 cpu i'm getting? 349USD
i think i'll be running it in a DFI LP-UT 754 nf3 250gb mobo. i've got some nice water, dual bix quad 120's. from the results i'veseen other gets, i'd say i'll be humming alone around 3.2~3.4ghz.
TGM
