Overclocking En Extremus: Athlon 64 FX 2.9 GHz, P4 EE 4.0 GHz

Test System

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Intel Processors (Socket 478)
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR400) Pentium 4 EE 3.40 GHz ES (3400 MHz 12-8/512/2048 kB)
AMD Processors (Socket 940)
200 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR400) Athlon FX-53 (2400 MHz 128/1024 kB)Athlon FX-51 (2200 MHz 128/1024 kB)
Memory
Intel Pentium 4 4 x 256 MB - DDR400Corsiar TwinX CMX256A-3200LL (XMS32005V1.1)CL 2.0-2-2-5
Athlon FX 2 x 512 MB - DDR400Mushkin PC3200 ECC Registered High PerformanceCL 2.0-3-2-6
Motherboard
Intel Plattform Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, Rev. 1.02
(Sockel 478) Intel 875P ChipsetBIOS: 1015 (01/28/2004)Intel 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (CSA)
AMD Athlon 64 FX Platform Asus SK8N Rev: 1.03
(Socket 940) VIA K8T800 ChipsetBIOS: 1002 BETA 019Broadcom BCM5705 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Common Hardware
Sound Card Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space96.00 kHz sample rate
Graphics Card Asus A9800XT/TVD, Rev. 1.01GPU: ATI Radeon 9800XT, 412 MHz Chip ClockMemory: 256 MB DDR-SDRAM, 365 MHz Chip Clock
Hard Drive (AMD System) FastTrak S150 TX2plus (Bios: 1.00.0.30)2 x SATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 (Raid 0)80 GB / 8 MB Cache / 7200 rpm
Hard Drive (Intel System) Intel FW82801ER ICH5R2 x SATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 (Raid 0)80 GB / 8 MB Cache / 7200 rpm
DVD/CD-ROM MSI MS-8216 16x DVD
Software
Intel Chipset Intel INF Chipset Installation Utility Ver. 5.00.1012Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.51
nVIDIA nForce3 Forceware 3.13 Drivers
VIA K8T800 Hyperion 4in1 Ver. 4.51
DirectX Version: 9b
OS Windows XP Professional, Build 2600, Service Pack 1
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.