pushed up my 3700sd a bit

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 16:45

Well thought I might give it some speed and upped the fsb to 255 in 5mhz steps. Dropped the htt to 3 and got it to 2803mhz. Default volts freezer 64 pro cooler @ 34 idle and 40 load according to mbm5 not sure if thats right though for the temps. Seems nice and stable.
msi k8n diamond
3700sd
hiper psu
x1900xtx
2*512mb kingmax hardcore ddr 500

So how's that clock stand in the scheme of things, not clocked anything for years, since I had a athlon 1400 @ 1600

TaKeN · 9 Mar 2006 at 16:52

Holy cow man, you tested it with some heavy usage yet...

If that thing stays stable on stock volts, then you have a nice chip there :cool:

Whats the Stepping ? KAB2E ? KAB3E ?

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:00

prim95 and superpi, don't know steppings never looked. Couple of hours of prime and a couple of go's at superpi. Im not sure about the temps though how close is mbm5 to actual temps if anyone knows.

Street · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:13

Nice clock there

I can only get mine up to 2.8GHz with a shed load of volts! Usually run it at [email protected].

Those temps might be about right... Mine reads as around 32C idle and around 44C under load with 1.425V running through it.

ted34 · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:17

Those temps sound fine. My 3700 did 3.1ghz at 1.55v and that idled at 26 degrees and load was 35degrees. That was with a xp120 with a vantec stealth fan and scotland

Explicit · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:19

That's a very nice overclock, effectively an FX-57

Street · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:27

ted34 said:
and scotland

Think I might need to get one of those to put in my PC

Liverpool just isn't cold enough!

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:37

prime just fell on its face, more volts, how much should I up it? just want to find total stability not clock any further. Spoke too soon about speed with stock volts, cursed myself to failiure.

Explicit · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:46

HITMAN_LEON said:
prime just fell on its face, more volts, how much should I up it? just want to find total stability not clock any further. Spoke too soon about speed with stock volts, cursed myself to failiure.

Damn! Increase volts one step up, then try again.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:54

Explicit said:
Damn! Increase volts one step up, then try again.

erm dumb question, but whats the default volts for a 3700sd, I have not idea and I can't see a default figure in bios.

Explicit · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:04

HITMAN_LEON said:
erm dumb question, but whats the default volts for a 3700sd, I have not idea and I can't see a default figure in bios.

E6 steppings have a default of 1.35v. E4 steppings have 1.4v iirc.

Use CPU-Z to find out stock volts.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:13

So by cpu-z would mine be the e4 stepping?

Name AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Code Name San Diego
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
Family / Model / Stepping F 7 1
Extended Family / Model F 27
Brand ID 4
Package Socket 939
Core Stepping SH-E4
Technology 90 nm
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed 2805.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
HTT Bus Frequency 255.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2805.2 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits

Explicit · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:39

HITMAN_LEON said:
So by cpu-z would mine be the e4 stepping?

Core Stepping SH-E4

Yup! On the CPU-Z screen, there should be a box which tells you how many volts the CPU is using.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:44

seems better at 1.425v, assuming I am reading cpu-z right and the default volts should be 1.4, then 1.425 is not too much of an increase and its the smallest step up I can take on this k8n diamond. Temps top off at 43 now and 34 idle. BTW it was prime getting rounding error, 04 instead of 0.5, suppose that means the cpu fails its maths test at stock volts. Funny though I ran that test a few times before its just refused to run again and just kept getting the same error.

TaKeN · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:46

Well, ive had 1.6 volts running through mine lol..

Got a bit hot one night,. so i dropped em

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:52

I just upped it to 1.45v as 1.425 failed tsk, spoke too soon.

Street · 9 Mar 2006 at 19:04

HITMAN_LEON said:
prime just fell on its face, more volts, how much should I up it?

As long as you don't go over 1.55V on air you should be fine... Although I personally don't like going over 1.5V.

Big.Wayne · 9 Mar 2006 at 19:27

HITMAN_LEON said:
Well thought I might give it some speed. . . . . and got it to 2803mhz.

HITMAN_LEON said:
prime just fell on its face. Spoke too soon about speed with stock volts, cursed myself to failiure.

HITMAN_LEON said:
I just upped it to 1.45v as 1.425 failed tsk, spoke too soon.

Once again, take some time to test your overclocks before rushing to publish your finding. This forum will still be here when your done. Once you have completed your tests make a nice screenshot and post with your findings, then anyone who is reading who fancy buying this CPU will have some proper research to base their spending on, rather than some halfbaked report of a failed overclock.

Jamie1984 · 9 Mar 2006 at 20:18

HITMAN_LEON said:
Well thought I might give it some speed and upped the fsb to 255 in 5mhz steps. Dropped the htt to 3 and got it to 2803mhz. Default volts freezer 64 pro cooler @ 34 idle and 40 load according to mbm5 not sure if thats right though for the temps. Seems nice and stable.
msi k8n diamond
3700sd
hiper psu
x1900xtx
2*512mb kingmax hardcore ddr 500

So how's that clock stand in the scheme of things, not clocked anything for years, since I had a athlon 1400 @ 1600

bloody good on stock volts

hows it performing in gameS?

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 20:39

Well running smooth now and high temp down to 42. It did run games and super pi fine on stock volts just pegged it on prime 95. As for half baked, nope never half baked, never will be as its not related to you and your half baked comments big.wayne.