Thanks for that very interesting article, I would like to know how far the FX could be overclocked using the same sophisticated cooling rig, and what the benchmark figures for that would be.

The FX can be clocked to 3.1 Ghz, I do know of P4 clocked to 6 Ghz Not bad Sanders!!

i know 3 people who have FX 55 runing at 3.6 GHz useing phase cooling.

Hehe. He is talking about me. I need to update my specs, but when I had my phase change, I pushed my A64 to around 3.6GHz, even though it could've gone lots more.

But these are my current specs:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 @ 3.40GHz [Clawhammer, 130nm]
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI [nForce 4 SLI]
Koolance Exos WaterCooling
2 X 6800 Ultra Extreme PCIx16 + Water Block OC'ed [576/1221]
4 X 1GB Kingston HyperX PC4300
2 X 74GB SATA Western Digital Raptor @ 10,000RPM [RAID0]
2 X Western Digital Caviar SATA 320GB [RAID0]
OCZ Mod Stream 520W
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro

I could push my FX55 even more w/ my WC system.

If you want to OC an FX55, I would highly recommend buying Kingston's HyperX, Corsair's XMS, or Geil's UltraX.

Corsair, Geil, OCZ, & Crucial are good as well. Patriot is *OK*.

how on earth did you pay for that. jeez. spread the wealth . lol.

Speaking of Athlon FXs over clocked! Has anyone ever considered building a four to eight Opteron system and over clocking the Opterons? I am in need of a highly fast processing preferably multithread capable machine for doing graphic intensive work which always requires a large amount of mathematic processing, thankfully Adobe has designed and engineered all of there products to be multi-thread capable. Along with the new version of Imagine which will increase my rendering ability even more so.
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What do any of you think about overclocking a multi CPU Opteron system?

Alex, have you ever thought about using grid computing, parallel processing, or distributed rendering for your needs? My animation professor participates in a world-wide program where everyone leaves their computers on all the time and are able to use the entire world-wide user network of computers to process their animations. So while you sleep, people in Australia are using your computer to process their animations and while they sleep, your computer teams up with theirs to do what you need it to do. My professor has a 4-CPU Xenon computer which he says is much more trouble than it's worth - it requires constant help from the school's tech support to keep it up and running.

Anyways, I did a brief check for you on similar subjects and here's what I came up with:
http://www.sun.com/software/grid/stories/axyz.xml
http://www.ceintl.com/products/ensightgold.html
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&...processing

Hope that gives you some new ideas
Dale

I have thought of grid computing in the sense of a render net, which currently is local based. Maybe the new version of the program will employ grid based where the "local" would encompass the globe. I beleive that, that program Bryce does that. There is a way to do it right now but it is completley manual and requires multiple copies of the data files set up on each machine and then requires third party sodtware to pate all the mini animations together into a finished project. Use of processors like Opterons or Xeons would help. The professor that you said who has nothing but probs. with his 4 CPU Xeon machine that could be understood by what he uses it for. Not that I am defending my need but I need a machine that is capable of that performane level to accquire one thing. A professional business i.e. a televison station that has a large amount of weather data to process should have access to a machine that powerful to complete it's renderings of data. I would like it for one purpose and one purpose alone. I would like it to render the 3-D graphic scenes that I compose and the faster it does it the better. This way I can see the effects of the settings that I have chosen. The more the marrier... I am not after all those big fancy video cards so I can play video games at 180FPS I would like the video card to perform well enough to display the animation that I have generated. Especially if I decide to generate a animation that has a resolution of 1280 X 1024 or if I am lucky I would have a monitor capacle of 1600 X 1400 and have this animation play at at least 25FPS if not 30+ FPS then I would be able to generate hollywood style animations like they use in all these 40 million dollar movies.

P.S.---Thanks for those links to click on, they are informative.

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AMD Athlon FX-55 @ 3.20GHz
Swiftech H20-8500 Series Water Cooling Kit
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra
ATI RADEON X850XT PE 256MB w/ Dual DVI /TV-Out
OCZ PC4200 DDR533 1024MBx4 (CL 2.5-4-4-7) (EL) Series
Maxtor 300GB S-ATA w/ 16MB cache x 2 w/Raid 1
Western Digital 74GB S-ATA, 10K RPM x 2 w/Raid 0
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Creative GigaWorks S750 7.1 THX® certified
Turbo-Cool 850 Deluxe /850-watt Power Supply
Samsung SyncMaster 211MP 21" LCD

How did you get your Athlon 3200+ to be overclocked like that? (I'm not reading the copy you posted of that guys signature, I'm reading your signature below that). I have a 3200+ also and it runs at 2Ghz. That's the best I've been able to do - stably, anyways. Anything more than that and Windows won't boot up (and the stupid Chaintech ZNF3-250 MB won't post quite often, forcing me to reset the BIOS, so I've given up on trying - too much of a hassle).

If youw ant your renderings done fast, just buy time on IBM's Blue Gene.
It is the fastest computer in the world.

Dale Broadbent, you have yourself an awesome CPU.

What you probably need is GOOD DDR Ram. When you increase the HTT from the current 200MHz to say 260MHz which I've done, your RAM also OC'ed Automatically. So, if your Ram cannot take the OC, you either need to relax the timings or get better Ram so that it can handle the OC. Also you will need to change the HTT multiplier to say 4X instead of 5X.

Also make sure that your AGP/PCI is locked. Also up the CPU Vcore to say 1.60v from the default 1.40v @ 2000MHz.

My motherboard does not support more than 260MHz HTT, so I am stuck will a ROCK Stable 2.60GHz.