For all of the benchmarks I tested at the stock speed and overclocked at 2000MHz with a FSB of 211 which is the best I could do. All of the memory settings were at the most aggressive settings and all of the resolutions were set to 640×480 to test the CPU rather than the video card. I will be using the following benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional, 3DMark2001SE, 3DMark03, and PCMark04.
Test Bed:
- Albatron K8X800 Pro II (review to come)
- AMD Athlon64 3200+ (review to come)
- 60GB Seagate Barracuda IV HDD
- 1024MB PC3200 Corsair TwinX
- XFX GeForceFX 5700 Ultra
- Koolcase’s Panther
- Plextor 708A DVD burner (review to come)
- SilenX 400w PSU
- Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu
SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional has many different informational modules and benchmarking tools. The first benchmark I ran from this program was the CPU benchmark which outputs the MIPS and MFLOPS for your CPU. Below is a screen shot from the stock and overclocked speeds. Even though some of the FSB are higher the scores are lower, I don’t exactly know why this is because the overall clock speed is the same however the FSB is higher so I expected better results.
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SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional can also benchmark the multimedia ability of your system. This benchmark will output the Integer aEMMX/aSSE and Floating-Point results from your system. The same thing happens with this benchmark with the scores being lower while overclocked.
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Overall the most used benchmark in this software is probably the memory bandwidth benchmark. I used 1024MB (2×512) Corsair 3200LL which is one of their dual channel kits. All of the speeds were set to the fastest in the BIOS so that I would get the best performance possible. I was really expecting to see a higher score with the overclocked system on this benchmark regardless of the clock speed. The memory should have also been overclocked as a result of the increase in FSB however the scores are again slower than the stock settings.
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