Overclockers Love AMD
Some excellent news for all the overclockers out there, it looks like the new line of
AMD CPUs overclock like a champ. According to TomsHardware
who gets pretty techy on us about the pins of the CPU (he read the whitesheet) but more
importantly shows off some benchmarks of the CPUs getting cranked. Asus already has a
motherboard capable of overclocking to boot.
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I've got four Duron processors, one 650 MHz type and three Duron 700 types. After raising the voltage to some hefty 1.85 V all four Durons reached 950 MHz without a glitch!!!
My question is why do the AMD chips SUCK at FSB overclocks? only multiplier ones work well.
Eg - 90% of AMD Duron reviews initially - 700mhz they overclocked to no more than 770mhz by increasing to 110mhz FSB on the board.
but ANY overclocks on the original Athlon were the same multiplier worked well - 30-50% overclocks of original speed - 10% max with FSB overclocks - weird chip.
Perhaps the chipsets themselves cant handle the extra speed?
Whereas a Celeron can NOT do multiplier (locked) but FSB is fine, - you would think the AMD's would do FSB fine, based on the fact the chips CAN do 950mhz for eg (in toms case)
Interesting stuff indeed, never found a good answer for it either.
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