With a Vcore of 1.6v and ddr2 of 2.3v my amd 6000+ booted in vista and made it at least 5 minutes into othro's iterations.
sadly it only scored a 5.6 on my vista game score all the rest of my scores were 5.9. This is on water (with an extra radiator)so it never got above 45c.
So you went from 3.0GHz to 3.4GHz (13% overclock), cranked your core voltage, are glad you made it 5 minutes in a stress tool (but aren't running that 24/7), and had to use water cooling to do it?
My E8400 does 3.6 GHz (20% overclock, up from 3.0) without manually adjusting the voltage, runs Prime95 as long as I've cared to let it, scores 5.8 on the ever-accurate Vista "Windows Experience Index", and I haven't seen a temp above 41 degrees when using my Scythe Ninja. Running at 3.6GHz lets my memory (DDR2-800) run at a 1:1 ratio with the FSB. Oh yeah, and it's been running at that speed 24/7 since the day before they were officially released.
I compared my 3DMark06 CPU score with a stock AMD 6000+ just for giggles. My system, overclocked to 3.6GHz, gets a CPU score of 3217. The stock 6000+ got 2200 in the review I saw (http://techreport.com/articles.x/11886/6). At stock, I got 2600.
Not meaning to poop on your parade, but your last line ("take that intel fanboysssss!!" ) just asked for it. Personally, I'm glad that AMD continues to try to push Intel; the competition keeps the prices down, and progress going forward.
Oh, I also noticed in that article that the 6000+ debuted at $400+... Mine was $215 Canadian.
Like I said, I really am glad that AMD keeps churning out some competition for Intel. And I'm not really proud of my overclock; all I did was go into the BIOS and change the 333MHz FSB to 400. Not like it took a lot of skill or anything.
From what I've seen on the 6000+, getting even a 13% overclock like yours is pretty darn good (and probably took more patience, skill and possibly even luck than mine). But it's nothing compared to what virtually any contemporary Intel processor can overclock. Heck, with my old E6300, I got a 25% overclock (from 1.86 to 2.33 GHz) with the same ease as my current overclock; go into the BIOS, type in 333 instead of 266 as your FSB speed, and you're done. No mucking with voltages, no radical cooling, nothing.
So enjoy your overclock, and I appreciate you supporting AMD to keep Intel in line. I thought about getting an ATI graphics card on my last round of upgrades just to put some more dollars in their coffers, but ended up going NVidia primarily due to the crappy warranties offered by virtually every ATI partner. It's my first non-ATI card in quite some time.
sadly it only scored a 5.6 on my vista game score all the rest of my scores were 5.9. This is on water (with an extra radiator)so it never got above 45c.
Dude you should be, congrats, dont let the chest pounding get to you.
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Q6600 (overclocked to 3ghz) GAp35-DS-3L mobo, 4BG corsair ddr2800, 9600gt(512mb), 2x dvd burner,250gb hard drive,500gb hard drive, black antec p182 case with corsair 750 watt psu. 2nd pc Dell 1505 core duo laptop, 2gb, 120gb hard drive ,combo drive.
Lol how about my OC? 3.4Ghz e6300. I usually keep it at 3.2Ghz though, because it scares me at 3.4Ghz. It tested stable for an hour in Orthos before I turned it off though.
BTW, stock clocks on this CPU is 1.86Ghz with a 7x multiplier, which I'm pushing at 485 Mhz bus. The highest I want to push it for fear of damaging stuff. I'm only using air, Scythe Samurai.
--------------- The worst part of my Vista 64 experience is having to listen to all of the individuals who apparently feel it's their 'Grand Mission In Life' to tell me about all of the things that (supposedly) don't work, when it *does* work.
All of you Core 2 users can keep on laughing when your notion of Intel's customer loyalty goes down the drain as it gains a monopoly in the x86 market. Processors will sell for $500 a pop, and you'll have a ball with your Intel Inside logo then eh?
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.27 (Crappy Mobo)
7600GT @ 626/1.51 '05 Score: 6500
4GB DDR2 884 @ 5-5-5-15 (This RAM is for my new system in the summer, using now cause I bought it early-had an insane deal for it)
Samsung HD160JJ
Yeah that will totally suck. I'm really hoping that AMD can pull through and produce something to bring them back to their Athlon XP and Athlon 64 days. I go with what performs the best for the money, which right now is Intel.
I've been using AMD processors since my K6-2, up to my Slot A Athlon and then I got my 2500+ Barton (Amazing), then I purchased a 3200+ Athlon 64. I was going to get an AM2 4200 for $190 dollars 2 weeks before the Core 2 Duo launched. I'm glad I made the decision to wait, because the 4200+ is no where near as good as my e6300 with it's 3.2Ghz OC.
Message edited by IndigoMoss on 02-03-2008 at 09:38:32 AM
I had a Athlon XP 1700 at bus 266. I put the bus to 400 and lowered the multiplier to keep it at 1700 rate.
My actual system is a brisbane A64 X2 4400(2.3Ghz). I put it to 2.8Ghz bus is from 200 to 245. I lowered HT to 600 and my mems to 533 so in the raise of the bus they both reach almost 750 and 630 respectively. Using Nforce 3 here.
Personally, I'm glad that AMD continues to try to push Intel; the competition keeps the prices down, and progress going forward.
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