EDIT: New Results At The Bottom
Alright, I hope this is the first on many to appear on ATForums. I was waiting on a DFI NF4 SLI-DR, but it still hasn?t arrived, and I got a little impatient. [rant]Remember when FedEx Saver Shipping meant about 3-4 days from coast to coast? Well Newegg?s FedEx Saver Shipping apparently means 5 days from California to Oregon.[/rant]
Well whether it?s a blessing or a curse (probably a curse if you ask my girlfriend), I live about 15 minutes away from a Fry?s Electronics. They had a special for the weekend, a retail AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 939) and a DFI NF4 Ultra-D for $269.99. I grabbed one so I could use the motherboard to test out the OEM Athlon 64 X2 4400+ that I got on the 15th from TigerDirect, but as a bonus, the retail 3000+ they included was a LBBLE 0520DPDW Venice core. I?ll test the Venice out later.
The Players:
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D ? The board didn?t have a revision number, but it?s fairly new because it shipped with the 0310 BIOS. This allowed the 4400+ to POST, but I was getting constant BSODs installing Windows XP Professional SP2. I flashed it to Oskar Wu?s 0510-3 BIOS and it worked like a charm (note the -3 suffix means the BIOS is optimized for TCCD).
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ - Two cores, 2.2GHz each, 1MB L2 cache per core. OEM processor I got from TigerDirect, it is a few weeks older than the OEM 4400+ that were on sale at Newegg. Mine is a 0517 CPU, while Newegg?s were 0520 (at least the pictured one was).
Patriot 1GB Dual Channel PC3200 XBLK - TCCD on BrainPower 815 PCBs. Didn?t check the markings on the memory chips because I?ve been reluctant to remove the retail red heatspreaders. I bought these at the beginning of 2005 but they?ve been in the closet gathering dust for a while because my test bench was running DDR2 motherboards.
Zalman CNPS7700-Cu - The kilogram copper beast with a 120mm quiet fan. Fan speed was pegged between 1800-1900RPM.
Other components: ATI X850XT Platinum Edition (stock), Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40GB PATA, LG 52X CD-ROM, NEC 1.44 Floppy, Fortron 550W PSU (with dual 18A 12V rails).
Software/Drivers: Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 & All Windows Updates, nForce 6.53 Unified Drivers, Omega Catalyst 5.4.
The Results:
Keep in mind that I still haven?t fully tweaked this setup, in terms of max overclock and max memory bandwidth. It may run with a little less voltage, or a little higher clock speed, and with faster benchmark results, but I did as much testing as I could in a 6 hour period and determined this to be a safe overclock. I?ll update later when I squeeze more out of the setup. Stability has been tested so far with Memtest (5 passes of test 8) and dual Stress Prime 2004 (~4.5 hours). Will do more stability testing later, but it flew through all the benchmarks without a problem.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Overclock Results
CPU Clock Speed: 2600MHz
CPU Multiplier: 10X
FSB: 260MHz
LDT Multiplier: 3X
HTT Clock: 1560MHz
Memory Ratio: 1:1
Memory Timings: 2.5-3-3-5
PCIe Clock: 100MHz
PCI Clock: 33MHz
VCore: 1.55V BIOS, 1.50V Actual (Idle), 1.52V Actual (Load)
VDimm: 2.7V BIOS, 2.72V Actual
VLDT: 1.3V BIOS, 1.26V Actual
VNB: 1.5V BIOS, 1.47V Actual
Temperatures: 33C Idle, 57C Load
Screen
Super PI 1M: 31.775s
Hexus PiFast: 45.47s
Screen
CrystalMark: 133663
Screen
POV-Ray 3.7 Beta
Benchmark (Single Thread): 717.33s
Screen
Benchmark (Quad Thread): 368.81s
Screen
Cinebench
Single CPU Render Test: 71.2s
Multiple CPU Render Test: 38.1s
Screen
Sisoft Sandra
ALU: 24136 MIPS
FPU/iSSE2: 8240/10667 MFLOPS
Integer: 49705 it/s
Floating-Point: 53629 it/s
RAM Bandwidth Integer: 6888 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Floating-Point: 6803 MB/s
Screen
ScienceMark
Molecular Dynamics: 57.43457s
Primordia: 261.75984s
Screen
3DMark2001SE: 31026
Screen
3DMark03: 13568
Screen
3DMark05: 6234
Screen
So with mid-end air cooling and a safe VCore of 1.52V, we have the equivalent of a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, or two AMD FX-55s in one socket. Not bad.
If you guys have any benchmark requests, please post in this thread with a download link and I?ll update my results.
EDIT:
TMPGEnc
DivX AVI-To-MPG
Source File: Batman Begins Trailer 1 (143s long, Available At DivX.com)
CBR
Conversion Settings: DVD NTSC (MPEG-2 720x480 23.976fps CBR 7992kbps, Linear PCM 48000Hz 1536kbps)
Singlethreaded Conversion Time: 135s
Multithreaded Conversion Time: 72s
2-Pass VBR
Conversion Settings: DVD NTSC (MPEG-2 720x480 23.976fps VBR 4000kbps, Linear PCM 48000Hz 1536kbps)
Singlethreaded Conversion Time: 263s
Multithreaded Conversion Time: 135s
NEW RESULTS
CPU Clock Speed: 2700MHz
CPU Multiplier: 9X
FSB: 300MHz
LDT Multiplier: 3X
HTT Clock: 1800MHz
Memory Ratio: 1:1
Memory Timings: 2.5-4-4-8
PCIe Clock: 100MHz
PCI Clock: 33MHz
VCore: 1.55V BIOS, 1.53V Actual
VDimm: 2.7V BIOS, 2.7V Actual
VLDT: 1.3V BIOS, 1.26V Actual
VNB: 1.6V BIOS, 1.56V Actual
Temperatures:
CPU 34C Idle, 60C Load
PWM IC 30C Idle, 50C Load
Chipset 37C Idle, 48C Load
Screen
Alright, I hope this is the first on many to appear on ATForums. I was waiting on a DFI NF4 SLI-DR, but it still hasn?t arrived, and I got a little impatient. [rant]Remember when FedEx Saver Shipping meant about 3-4 days from coast to coast? Well Newegg?s FedEx Saver Shipping apparently means 5 days from California to Oregon.[/rant]
Well whether it?s a blessing or a curse (probably a curse if you ask my girlfriend), I live about 15 minutes away from a Fry?s Electronics. They had a special for the weekend, a retail AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 939) and a DFI NF4 Ultra-D for $269.99. I grabbed one so I could use the motherboard to test out the OEM Athlon 64 X2 4400+ that I got on the 15th from TigerDirect, but as a bonus, the retail 3000+ they included was a LBBLE 0520DPDW Venice core. I?ll test the Venice out later.
The Players:
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D ? The board didn?t have a revision number, but it?s fairly new because it shipped with the 0310 BIOS. This allowed the 4400+ to POST, but I was getting constant BSODs installing Windows XP Professional SP2. I flashed it to Oskar Wu?s 0510-3 BIOS and it worked like a charm (note the -3 suffix means the BIOS is optimized for TCCD).
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ - Two cores, 2.2GHz each, 1MB L2 cache per core. OEM processor I got from TigerDirect, it is a few weeks older than the OEM 4400+ that were on sale at Newegg. Mine is a 0517 CPU, while Newegg?s were 0520 (at least the pictured one was).
Patriot 1GB Dual Channel PC3200 XBLK - TCCD on BrainPower 815 PCBs. Didn?t check the markings on the memory chips because I?ve been reluctant to remove the retail red heatspreaders. I bought these at the beginning of 2005 but they?ve been in the closet gathering dust for a while because my test bench was running DDR2 motherboards.
Zalman CNPS7700-Cu - The kilogram copper beast with a 120mm quiet fan. Fan speed was pegged between 1800-1900RPM.
Other components: ATI X850XT Platinum Edition (stock), Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40GB PATA, LG 52X CD-ROM, NEC 1.44 Floppy, Fortron 550W PSU (with dual 18A 12V rails).
Software/Drivers: Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 & All Windows Updates, nForce 6.53 Unified Drivers, Omega Catalyst 5.4.
The Results:
Keep in mind that I still haven?t fully tweaked this setup, in terms of max overclock and max memory bandwidth. It may run with a little less voltage, or a little higher clock speed, and with faster benchmark results, but I did as much testing as I could in a 6 hour period and determined this to be a safe overclock. I?ll update later when I squeeze more out of the setup. Stability has been tested so far with Memtest (5 passes of test 8) and dual Stress Prime 2004 (~4.5 hours). Will do more stability testing later, but it flew through all the benchmarks without a problem.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Overclock Results
CPU Clock Speed: 2600MHz
CPU Multiplier: 10X
FSB: 260MHz
LDT Multiplier: 3X
HTT Clock: 1560MHz
Memory Ratio: 1:1
Memory Timings: 2.5-3-3-5
PCIe Clock: 100MHz
PCI Clock: 33MHz
VCore: 1.55V BIOS, 1.50V Actual (Idle), 1.52V Actual (Load)
VDimm: 2.7V BIOS, 2.72V Actual
VLDT: 1.3V BIOS, 1.26V Actual
VNB: 1.5V BIOS, 1.47V Actual
Temperatures: 33C Idle, 57C Load
Screen
Super PI 1M: 31.775s
Hexus PiFast: 45.47s
Screen
CrystalMark: 133663
Screen
POV-Ray 3.7 Beta
Benchmark (Single Thread): 717.33s
Screen
Benchmark (Quad Thread): 368.81s
Screen
Cinebench
Single CPU Render Test: 71.2s
Multiple CPU Render Test: 38.1s
Screen
Sisoft Sandra
ALU: 24136 MIPS
FPU/iSSE2: 8240/10667 MFLOPS
Integer: 49705 it/s
Floating-Point: 53629 it/s
RAM Bandwidth Integer: 6888 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Floating-Point: 6803 MB/s
Screen
ScienceMark
Molecular Dynamics: 57.43457s
Primordia: 261.75984s
Screen
3DMark2001SE: 31026
Screen
3DMark03: 13568
Screen
3DMark05: 6234
Screen
So with mid-end air cooling and a safe VCore of 1.52V, we have the equivalent of a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, or two AMD FX-55s in one socket. Not bad.
If you guys have any benchmark requests, please post in this thread with a download link and I?ll update my results.
EDIT:
TMPGEnc
DivX AVI-To-MPG
Source File: Batman Begins Trailer 1 (143s long, Available At DivX.com)
CBR
Conversion Settings: DVD NTSC (MPEG-2 720x480 23.976fps CBR 7992kbps, Linear PCM 48000Hz 1536kbps)
Singlethreaded Conversion Time: 135s
Multithreaded Conversion Time: 72s
2-Pass VBR
Conversion Settings: DVD NTSC (MPEG-2 720x480 23.976fps VBR 4000kbps, Linear PCM 48000Hz 1536kbps)
Singlethreaded Conversion Time: 263s
Multithreaded Conversion Time: 135s
NEW RESULTS
CPU Clock Speed: 2700MHz
CPU Multiplier: 9X
FSB: 300MHz
LDT Multiplier: 3X
HTT Clock: 1800MHz
Memory Ratio: 1:1
Memory Timings: 2.5-4-4-8
PCIe Clock: 100MHz
PCI Clock: 33MHz
VCore: 1.55V BIOS, 1.53V Actual
VDimm: 2.7V BIOS, 2.7V Actual
VLDT: 1.3V BIOS, 1.26V Actual
VNB: 1.6V BIOS, 1.56V Actual
Temperatures:
CPU 34C Idle, 60C Load
PWM IC 30C Idle, 50C Load
Chipset 37C Idle, 48C Load
Screen