Well i recently bought a 40$ CPU. It was a A64 Sempron 2800+, as i bought it i asaid it looks nice, it may be low clocks, but it can OC good.

I ran this thing and within 10 minutes, i was alreay 1100MHz over stock speeds, and could keep going. Right after i get ome more tweaking in, I'm sure i can get 2.9 or higher, and with a chiller, i could bench at that speed.

But for now i only ran 2880MHz, but its nice to see, i even had it a 2.84GHz with 236 MHZ on my DDR-400 from ultra, and got sandra to bench, which for the nice little Noctua 92MM cooler with a white lightning 92mm fan from areocool.

All my scores i updated so far, i'll just kep tweaking and once i hit the wall i feel i need not to pass, I'll then buy a pot off planet .

Figures through all my really fast benching and clocking, i ended up using the old version of CPUz nad i have to reload all those clocks to get the scores, again at a latter time.

Holy crap that is insane. Are you getting those speeds with stock volts? That OC is just insane

A dualcore sempron would be sweet at those speeds.

Damm s1ugh34d! I've got the AM2 version of that. Once I get some decent thermal paste I hope I can get that close. Right now I've only raised 400mhz but i hope think that I should be able to go quite a bit farther. Any idea whats a safe operating temperature for these?

+rep asap for your awesome work.

I use the DFI NF3 250GB board, with quitetweaked ultra memory, and the memory divider is insane, like 3/5 or 2/10.

Really the chip has alot of power, i'm surprised how easily it surpassed my 3100+, and can still go, without much trouble, all im facing right now is really the volts, i havent really bumped it too much, with stock at 1.5, i can get to 300FSB, but i need the 1.6 for anything higher thatn 300, or at least 1.57, i moved to 1.6 for the higher clocks, and for 2.88 i needed 1.65, really im sure with lower temps it could run 2.9 on 1.6v but i dont have the chiller up and ready to run.

Good luck with that AM2, i did notice the single core AM2 athlon64 3800 godfoot is running,in sisfot sandra at 2.88 he got the same range as i did at 2.84 and his 2.96 isonly a skip hop and leap away.

I also notice my single core scores from before i upgraded the SP2 for windowsXP. werearound 13k in sisft as well, and thoe were at 2.9GHz, so really this is once nice chip can't wait to see what it can really do.

Quote: Originally Posted by s1ugh34d Good luck with that AM2, i did notice the single core AM2 athlon64 3800 godfoot is running,in sisfot sandra at 2.88 he got the same range as i did at 2.84 and his 2.96 isonly a skip hop and leap away. I also notice my single core scores from before i upgraded the SP2 for windowsXP. werearound 13k in sisft as well, and thoe were at 2.9GHz, so really this is once nice chip can't wait to see what it can really do.

I have been noticing the same thing over the last few days while testing the Firestix (PC2-8000), and compared to my OCZ Gold (PC2-5400) and I get very similar scores, regardless of FSB and multi combo I use to achieve 2.9x CPU speed. Not only that, but the scores are very similar regardless of what RAM timings I use as well, and I have tried with CAS 4, 5, and 6 @ both 1T and 2T.
I have also seen where a lot of people are going with Everest now because of Sandra's "synthetic" results. Now I just gotta remember where I put my copy of Everest, I know it is around here somewhere.

Good work on the Semrp0n! Great CPUs, had one myself last year but didn't manage to get it going that fast!

This should show some justice,



Validated

I'm still working with it but its getting there, already had it at 3Ghz, but not nearstable enough, looks like i'm getting out the chiller.

Looks like I need to get one of those sempron's.......Whare ya get it from and what mobo are ya useing?

Quote: Originally Posted by HemiCuda1970 Looks like I need to get one of those sempron's.......Whare ya get it from and what mobo are ya useing?

I bought it off cpt plkanet recently, but there new OEM off newegg for 42.99, if you really want one, and my DFI LanpartyUT NF3 250GB runs it great. those are about 80$ or so new as well, but it looks as if i'll be selling mine in a few days here so if you want a deal check it out.

Quote: Originally Posted by HemiCuda1970 Looks like I need to get one of those sempron's.......Whare ya get it from and what mobo are ya useing?

DFI LANPARTY UT NF3 250Gb nForce3 250Gb AMD Socket 754 Motherboard at ZipZoomfly


Its a great mobo, I use it in my rig. Great overclocker.
WoW, those sempys got skillz

Quote: Originally Posted by godfoot I have been noticing the same thing over the last few days while testing the Firestix (PC2-8000), and compared to my OCZ Gold (PC2-5400) and I get very similar scores, regardless of FSB and multi combo I use to achieve 2.9x CPU speed. Not only that, but the scores are very similar regardless of what RAM timings I use as well, and I have tried with CAS 4, 5, and 6 @ both 1T and 2T. I have also seen where a lot of people are going with Everest now because of Sandra's "synthetic" results. Now I just gotta remember where I put my copy of Everest, I know it is around here somewhere.

You will notice that even an old Athlon XP can "Hang" on the Sandra CPU scores at a similar clock speed, Memeory speed will have very litte effect in this department...just remember that a AMD64, even the AM-2 vresion is little more than a Athlon XP with a on die mem controller!

In 3DMARK 01, when I first made the switch from my Mobile 2500+ XP at 2.6+ to a 754 AMD 64 rig at 2.5+GHZ, the scores actually went down with my X-800 Pro!


3DMARK 05 was pretty much the same story too..but my Pi times and other tests that are more memory sensative were prettyy much blowing away the XP scores.

And Slug-Bug, those 2800's are screamers for some reason, they seemed to do even better than the higher end 3000-3400+'s back in the day for Max OC's, dunno why, since they were supposed to be the low end of the spectrum..they seemd to be the 1700+ of socket 754!

Quote: Originally Posted by killert DFI LANPARTY UT NF3 250Gb nForce3 250Gb AMD Socket 754 Motherboard at ZipZoomfly Its a great mobo, I use it in my rig. Great overclocker. WoW, those sempys got skillz

Thanks......Looks like it was a good idea to pick up 3 of those MX4000 MSI AGP cards.......FOLDING@HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

new cpuz score



figured id update some, im in the works on PCmark2004, and 05, as well as getting my GPU up over the 330MHz limit its currently holding me at, soon enough. This is all on air with my nice little Noctua, running around 30C on load (its in the window sill running 20-21C ambients)

The Deal is still Alive

NewEgg.com has the AMD Sempron 64 2800+ Palermo 1.6GHz 256KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor OEM for $40 with free shipping. A cheap CPU for your budget system.

OHHHH SNAP!!! They are $35 now

well i got a few new scores, benching at 2.85GHz today, with my ultra sticks (amazing there running over 220) and got 48.02 seconds bringing me to second place for pifast on my CPU

as well as while i ran my recent pcmark study, i got 200 point gain in PCmark04

so my scores as of now

SuperPI 1MB: 32.922 - I'm #7 but soon to rise in that ranking
PiFast: 45.03 - #1 for my CPU
PCmark04: 4312 - #2 for my CPU
3dMark01: 4454 - #1 for my GPU
SANDRA: 13284 - #1 for my CPU
CPU-Z: 2934 - #3 for my CPU

what runs at 50F and has a system temp of around 32F.


Well if you couldnt guess from where i posted this, it would be my sempron 2800 box (custom foam insulation box and intake)

Im starting the benching now, with idle temps around 9-10C and load aroun 25C, im looking at an equivalent to my chiller, on air.

Quote: Originally Posted by s1ugh34d what runs at 50F and has a system temp of around 32F. Well if you couldnt guess from where i posted this, it would be my sempron 2800 box (custom foam insulation box and intake) Im starting the benching now, with idle temps around 9-10C and load aroun 25C, im looking at an equivalent to my chiller, on air.

Pic's......Pic's......Pic's

i got a 9,467 score in aquamark, some joker has a 12k score using a 1600MHz barton and a FX 5500 at 300/225 speeds, hahahaha





ill boot it back up to get the temp pics, gotta get out the BH-5 for better benching Muah hahhahaha

sry for the doublay post this is nice, just validated the 3.15Ghz #2 spot, almost to #1 getting there slowly, once i get it screenyed, and uploaded i'll post some pics, back to benching

Congrats Man

Just outa curiosity whats the WR for that Sempron you're using?