Overclocking FX-55

[BitByBit]

To be honest, I think it's time AMD offered something to further distance the FX line of A64s from the rest, other than an unlocked multiplier.
At its introduction, it offered a full 1MB L2 cache, and a dual-channel memory controller, where the regular A64 offered 512KB/1024KB L2, with only a single-channel memory controller.
So at the time, the FX was the 'high tier' offering from AMD in performance terms, and its price premium was more justified.

Perhaps a special low-latency L2, or maybe even a quad-channel memory controller would put it back up there?

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Amaroque

Originally posted by: Charlie22911
well if you had dry ice or something you could pump the vcore above 2v and see what overclock you could get. its my understanding that voltage is not what kills a cpu (within reason), its heat and if you can disperse heat you are fine.

This is not true with an A64. Too much Vcore will kill the on die memory controller. People were frying A64's left and right with too much Vcore. I don't remember which site. It was one of the extreme overclocking websites.

I haven't seen too many..

But the ones who are, they pumping through 1.75V

That's just scary for 90nm

 

[dadeef]

man with your kind of money you could get a russian mail order bride! lol

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: Amaroque

Originally posted by: vrmuds
As for a heatsink.. I've been hearing about the xp-90 and xp-120... Are these any good?

The XP-120 is the best A64 HS you can buy rite now.

Originally posted by: vrmuds
I do want to pick up 4 more 300GB hard drives.

At your price level, I'd recommend the 16 MB cache 300 GB Maxtor's. They are the fastest 7,200 RPM drives you can buy rite now (PATA, or SATA), and they are almost as fast as my 10,000 RPM Raptors. To tell you the truth, I'm quite amazed that they rival my Raptors in performance.

Agreed on the XP-120. I highly recommend it as well (note the sig).

 

[piddlefoot]

Anyone else had heat probs with the 3500+ amd ? Mine would run great for 20 mins then get a glitch here n there, it would be slow to come up between screens and programs, it would crash every week or so , took me a few weeks to find it was overheating, and it was a shop technition that actually found the problem, l wasnt happy with it so l went for an fx55...................Anyone else got 3500+ troubles?

 

[Zebo]

Actually guys his HSF is highly rated as one of the best. So don't have him chasing 2-3C for xtra xpense.

 

[ramona]

What FX-55 core are y'all clocking on?