[BigArnie] My first trip beyond 600 MHz

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[BigArnie] My first trip beyond 600 MHz

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Posted 6-1-2001 23:18 <br><br>Hi, <br><br>Best of luck with the new site, guys! Looks great so far. <br><br>My rig normally runs at 600 at 2.0 volts. At this speed, the stability is absolutely amazing. In fact, I cannot remember ever having experienced a crash since getting the chip last year, while running 24/7. I'm more than happy with the performance at this speed, too. <br><br>After Old-elf's recent well documented experiments, I got curious and decided to see what this baby can do. Went up to 630 (115 * 5.5) no problem. Ran Q3A for half an hour or so all fine. Went for 660 (120 * 5.5)and stability was good enough to do some benchmarking but not stable enough to my liking. <br><br>Upped the voltage to 2.1 volts and went for 672 (112 * 6). Stability once again not good but would run for 15 minutes or so before crashing. Got some benchmarks done. <br><br>Finally, I briefly went for 682 (124 * 5.5) and 690 (115 * 6) and only held that speed for long enough to do a screen dump of SysID showing multiplier and bus specs before dropping back to more sane speeds(probably 2 minutes at each). <br><br>Here's some benches at 672: <br>Sisoft Sandra 2001 CPU Mark <br>Dhrystone ALU: 1615 <br>Whetstone FPU: 824 <br><br>Sandra Multimedia Bench: <br>Integer MMX: 2222 <br>F-Point 3DNOW!: 2879 <br><br>CPUMark 99 (done at 660): 70.3 <br><br>I was quite surprised at how far it would go. Seems like my 3+ is a real good one. As soon as I build myself a dual 760MP Palomino box I think I'm also gonna get a watercooler and a pelt and shoot for the sky on the faithful old K6! <br><br><br>Epox MVP3-G2 board with 1MB L3 cache <br>AMD K6-3+ 450 @ 600 (normally) at 2.0 volt <br>Generic Athlon cooler <br>Generic 2 x 128 MB PC133 RAM <br>Midi tower with 230 Watt PSU <br>32 MB ATI Rage 128 display (stock clock) <br>30 GB WD 7200rpm HDD <br>Win 98/2000 Dual boot <br>56K Internal modem <br>24x4x4 CD-RW <br>50x CD ROM <br>6x32 Memorex DVD-ROM <br>C-Media 8738 Sound with 6 surround speakers <br>Realtek 10/100 Ethernet NIC <br>Samsung Syncmaster 510 display <br>Chronos TV-card <br>Aimslab FM Radio card <br> <br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub70.ezboard.com/uyeoldeforum.s ... uage=EN>Ye Olde Forum</A> at: 6/3/01 5:16:25 pm<br></i>
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[BigArnie] My first trip beyond 600 MHz

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Posted 6-1-2001 23:25 <br><br>Oh yeah, I forgot; mobo cache was enabled during all runs. <p></p><i></i>
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[Mr Toast] Nice scores!

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Posted 6-2-2001 05:13 <br><br>We will add these to the benchmarks page! <p></p><i></i>
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[jerrek] mmx errors

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Posted 6-2-2001 12:10 <br><br>what about the mmx errors. I recently went from 560 to 575 and then 600 and noticed that powerdvd was giving white blocks (about the size of this o) around the screen that were not present at the lower speeds. I was watching divx at the time. I suppose these errors would be very important for someone on a software modem. <p></p><i></i>
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[BigArnie] MMX Errors

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Posted 6-2-2001 19:55 <br><br>Jerrek, <br><br>Once again, I think I'm just lucky as far as the quality of my CPU is concerned. I might be wrong but I think it was Uart who discovered the MMX problem affecting + CPUs at >550MHz using PassMark Software's BurnInTest. In my case I can run this test at 600 MHz all day long without getting a single error. As far as the white dots are concerned, try UNDERclocking your video card slightly. I once had the same problem in PowerDVD and this fixed me up. <br> <br> <p></p><i></i>
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