In general, though, what we're hearing is that almost all of the Venice cores can run at very high clock speeds with a bit of effort, so there isn't a huge difference between 3000+ parts binned for 1.8 GHz and 3800+ parts binned for 2.4 GHz. AMD has simply set the package to use a maximum 9X multiplier on the former and a 12X multiplier on the latter. Talking about CPU multipliers leads us into the real meat of the discussion, though, so let's get into it.Read on over here.
Overclocking AMD's Socket 939 Athlon 64 processors
Posted on Wednesday, October 05 2005 @ 8:51 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AnandTech has written an in-depth article about overclocking AMD's Athlon 64.