AMD FX-60 Overclocking on Stock Heatsink and Voltage

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:00 pm

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!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:06 pm

wow, 3ghz on stock voltage!!!!

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:13 pm

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...................

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:14 pm

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.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:17 pm

That thing must turn in some impressive benchmarks at those speeds.............

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:21 pm

ok, so i might consider getting one, once it drops below $500

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:22 pm

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/1651/

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:23 pm

Newegg is really taking advantage of people these days...............

Bwall · Post by **Bwall** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:09 am

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

Post by **FZ1** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:30 am

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.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:32 am

Or we could just run it through my little rig just to be sure that water cooling might help..............

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:37 am

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!!!

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:52 am

I bet he can get it to 3.2 or so with good water................

No limit if he were to use Phase Change.................

Bwall · Post by **Bwall** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:07 am

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.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:16 am

BIO..... You are more than happy to bring the system by if you want to help me O/C this FX-60 one afternoon.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:57 am

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.........

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:57 pm

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 ;)

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:45 pm

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

topsub · Post by **topsub** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:58 am

sucks i spent almosy 800 the day before on the duel core 4800+ if i wanted a day longer i could have got this...

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:41 am

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