Biostar TForce 6100-AM2

[supersunbird]

I got myself one of the TForce 6100-AM2 motherboards and a A64 X2 3800+. I overclocked it to 2,5GHz from 2GHz without any trouble, just upped the voltage from 1.2V to 1.225V.

Should I push it further? What is the highest safest voltage?

Great cheap little motherboard...

 

[killadoob]

at 2.5ghz can u run 3dmark and pcmark fine without rebooting?

 

[XCalibre]

Yes if you can run pcmark etc. without the pc rebooting you can push it up further.

 

[supersunbird]

I just encoded two movies from vob to avi, is that a good test? I will only do 3dmark 2001 because its only got a 6200le in lol.

On the encoding of the movies, both movies took me less than 2 hours each, where my single core 2.6 3200+ (also on a biostar) had taken me between 3 and 4 hours...

 

[XCalibre]

If it didn't restart you can over clock it even more, just keep an eye on the temps

 

[supersunbird]

Most of the time its running at 1.25GHz due to CoolnQuiet being enabled and then it runs at 25 degrees, when I was running PCmark 4 this morning it went up to 39. I'll go for 2.6 this evening...

What is cool about this setup is that my 3 year old Gigabyte cooler still works on here with the AM2 and that the whole setup cost me less than R2000