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Ok so I built my first Sempron based computer today and I figured since it had Corsair memory inside... and it was on an Abit NF7-S2 motherboard, i should see how high it overclocks...
Keep in mind this wasn't MY computer so i didn't raise the voltage and I was using the stock fan from AMD... but the temps seemed to stay at around 40 degrees celcius when i did this.
Anyways, some info on the CPU: Stock speed is 2.0 gigz @ 166 fsb.
I immediately tried raising the FSB to 200 to see if that would just magically work (hey, i didn't think it would, but you never know), anyways... i was right and it didn't even boot up.
So I raised the FSB to 175, which gave 2.1 gigz and that was perfectly fine, although not a huge overclock.
So I tried for 185 FSB, lowered the ram ratio (I wanted to make sure the ram wouldn't affect the overclock that much) and although it booted up at ~2.2, it wasn't stable, windows would try to boot up and the comp would restart.
Not having that much time to play around with it, i lowered the FSB to 180 and it booted up without any problems into windows @ 2.16 gigz
Now, if I had better cooling and I had raised the voltage a bit, i'm sure i could of gotten it stable at the 185 FSB, which would of been about 2.25gigz... but that's not really amazing in itself.
All that to say, the Semprons do overclock... but it's nothing special so far. But if you want to get a 2800+ sempron and bring it up to 3100+ speeds, then you should have no problems. But running 2.16 gigz on the socket A platform wasn't really impressive, I had no time to run any benchmarks but I'm going to take a wild guess and say that getting a mobile 2500+ would probably give you more performance once overclocked.
(by the way, I realize this wasn't very extensive overclocking and I wouldn't of wrote about it but there seems to be a lack of information on overclocking the Sempron on the net, a little info is better than no info!)
Keep in mind this wasn't MY computer so i didn't raise the voltage and I was using the stock fan from AMD... but the temps seemed to stay at around 40 degrees celcius when i did this.
Anyways, some info on the CPU: Stock speed is 2.0 gigz @ 166 fsb.
I immediately tried raising the FSB to 200 to see if that would just magically work (hey, i didn't think it would, but you never know), anyways... i was right and it didn't even boot up.
So I raised the FSB to 175, which gave 2.1 gigz and that was perfectly fine, although not a huge overclock.
So I tried for 185 FSB, lowered the ram ratio (I wanted to make sure the ram wouldn't affect the overclock that much) and although it booted up at ~2.2, it wasn't stable, windows would try to boot up and the comp would restart.
Not having that much time to play around with it, i lowered the FSB to 180 and it booted up without any problems into windows @ 2.16 gigz
Now, if I had better cooling and I had raised the voltage a bit, i'm sure i could of gotten it stable at the 185 FSB, which would of been about 2.25gigz... but that's not really amazing in itself.
All that to say, the Semprons do overclock... but it's nothing special so far. But if you want to get a 2800+ sempron and bring it up to 3100+ speeds, then you should have no problems. But running 2.16 gigz on the socket A platform wasn't really impressive, I had no time to run any benchmarks but I'm going to take a wild guess and say that getting a mobile 2500+ would probably give you more performance once overclocked.
(by the way, I realize this wasn't very extensive overclocking and I wouldn't of wrote about it but there seems to be a lack of information on overclocking the Sempron on the net, a little info is better than no info!)
