[H]ardOCP have a new review out! which looks at OCing the Athlon64 3000+ using VIA's new K8T800Pro chipset.
Many of us have been waiting for many months now for the new 939-pin AMD CPUs to hit the store shelves. Undoubtedly, the 939-pin CPUs are a giant move in the right direction for AMD and provide superior gaming performance. The downside to the new CPUs is price. Even at the low end of the 939-pin Athlon64 spectrum, you can expect to pay around $500 for the CPU alone.
We understand that AMD is moving their products into new markets and trying to shake that "budget CPU" image and we are glad to see them go about that, but where does this leave the enthusiast? Reenter the 754-pin Athlon64.
I think that many of us were so excited about the coming of the dual channel memory controllers on the 939-pin Athlon64 CPUs that we sort of overlooked the 754-pin platform, or at least we did. Couple that with the fact that no motherboards on the market could lock the PCI/AGP to stock speeds while scaling the FSB and the 754-pin CPUs just were just not that appealing to the overall enthusiast community. Well that is all about to change, or at least we think so.
Overclocking the Athlon64 3000+
Many of us have been waiting for many months now for the new 939-pin AMD CPUs to hit the store shelves. Undoubtedly, the 939-pin CPUs are a giant move in the right direction for AMD and provide superior gaming performance. The downside to the new CPUs is price. Even at the low end of the 939-pin Athlon64 spectrum, you can expect to pay around $500 for the CPU alone.
We understand that AMD is moving their products into new markets and trying to shake that "budget CPU" image and we are glad to see them go about that, but where does this leave the enthusiast? Reenter the 754-pin Athlon64.
I think that many of us were so excited about the coming of the dual channel memory controllers on the 939-pin Athlon64 CPUs that we sort of overlooked the 754-pin platform, or at least we did. Couple that with the fact that no motherboards on the market could lock the PCI/AGP to stock speeds while scaling the FSB and the 754-pin CPUs just were just not that appealing to the overall enthusiast community. Well that is all about to change, or at least we think so.
Overclocking the Athlon64 3000+
