Overclocking
And now to the part where we're supposed to find out if there's any truth in AMD's rumor, the so-called 'headroom'. We can translate the word to OC-potential, which has quite frankly been one of the old Phenom-series of processors major disappointments.
We managed to bump the Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition up to 3750 MHz - which was achieved by changing the following settings in the BIOS:
- Multiplier 14 -> 15
- Bus-speed 200 -> 250 MHz
- HT Link 2.0 GHz -> 2.5 GHz
- vCore 1.35 -> 1.55v
- This is a 34% increase of clock-frequency compared to the standard speed. Lets see how the numbers change accordingly.
3Dmark06
3DMarks / Higher is better
3DMark Vantage 64-bit
3DMarks / Higher is better
Call of Juarez 64-bit
FPS / Higher is better
Cinebench 64-bit
CB-CPU / Higher is better
Crysis 64-bit
FPS / Higher is better
Everest
MB/s / Higher is better
Furmark
FPS / Higher is better
Lightsmark
FPS / Higher is better
PassMark
Points / Higher is better
PCMark05
PCMarks / Higher is better
PCMark Vantage 64-bit
PCMarks / Higher is better
Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Arithmetic
GIPS/GFLOPS / Higher is better
Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Arithmetic Performance vs. Speed
MIPS/MHz - MFLOPS/MHz / Higher is better
Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Multi-Core Effeciency
GB/s / Higher is better - ns / Lower is better
Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Multi-Core Effeciency Performance vs. speed
MB/s/MHz / Higher is better - ns/MHz / Lower is better
Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Multi-Media
MPixel/s / Higher is better
Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Multi-Media Performance vs. speed
kPixels/s/MHz / Higher is better
Science Mark
Points / Higher is better
SuperPI
Seconds / Lower is better
Wprime
Seconds / Lower is better
We'll summarize on the next page. It'll take a little longer than usual as there are quite many graphs and numbers to digest.
