Overclockng/Setup

Overclocking

If you recall our experience with overclocking the Duron 900, the highest clock speed we achieved was initially 1104MHz, but eventually revised down to 1080MHz. While the chip ran games and SYSMark 2001 with no problems at 1.1GHz, we couldn't say the same for one application: Business Winstone 2001. While we could complete a few back-to-back tests at 1104MHz, if the system ran looped for extended periods of time, lockups would consistently creep up, regardless of core voltage. In the case of our Duron 950, the highest clock speed we could achieve was 1054MHz (8.5x124) at 1.8V. No matter what we tried, we just couldn't get 1064MHz (8.0x133) stable. Perhaps the ANCA cores are running out of headroom? It's a good thing Morgan's right around the corner.

Test System Setup

AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1000MHz (7.5x133)
AMD Duron 950 @ 1054MHz (8.5x124)
AMD Duron 950
AMD Duron 900
AMD Duron 800
Intel Celeron 800

ABIT KT7A-RAID
YH Revision BIOS
ABIT BX133-RAID
XK Revision BIOS

256MB Corsair PC133 CAS2 SDRAM

NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 32MB
Driver version Detonator 6.50

30GB IBM Deskstar DTLA 307030 ATA/100 Hard Drive
AFREEY 12X DVD-ROM
Windows 98 SE

Benchmarks

Content Creation 2001

Business Winstone 2001

SYSmark 2001

3DMark2000 ver 1.1

3DMark 2001

Unreal Tournament - 640x480x32
Unreal Tournament - 800x600x32
Unreal Tournament - 1024x7680x32
Unreal Tournament - 1280x1024x32

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x960 Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Normal, High Quality

MDK2 - 640x480x32
MDK2 - 800x600x32
MDK2 - 1024x768x32
MDK2 - 1280x1024x32
MDK2 - 1600x1200x32

Serious Sam Retail - 640x480x16 Normal
Serious Sam Retail - 800x600x16 Normal
Serious Sam Retail - 1024x768x16 Normal
Serious Sam Retail - 1280x1024x16 Normal

A desktop resolution of 800x600x16 was used for all tests.