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Reply 60 of 63, by FullYes

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Just in time for Christmas…the postman handed me a package containing an Athlon 3000+

It posed straight away at 133x17 (2266MHz)

Started some stability tests. So far it looks more stable than the 2600+ in so far as it can actually run software and it doesn’t immediately crash/reboot at this speed.

Reply 61 of 63, by RetroPCCupboard

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FullYes wrote on 2025-12-24, 19:02:

Just in time for Christmas…the postman handed me a package containing an Athlon 3000+

It posed straight away at 133x17 (2266MHz)

Started some stability tests. So far it looks more stable than the 2600+ in so far as it can actually run software and it doesn’t immediately crash/reboot at this speed.

Is it one with unlocked multiplier?

Reply 62 of 63, by FullYes

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^Yes. It’s build week is 16 of 2003 so it’s unlocked. I’ve only been looking for unlocked CPUs. I would take a locked AXDA2800DKV4C to see how that behaved with its factory 16x multi, but I’ve never seen one for sale.

I left the machine running overnight at 133x17 (2275MHz according to CPU-z ) with memtest86. 13 passes with no errors

Unfortunately I’m seeing some issues with stability in prime95. A bit unusual. Instead of reporting an error, the system hard locks. Sometime after a few mins, sometimes after longer. I guess it depends on the test. It also does it at 124 x 17 which is LOWER than the CPUs rated frequency. If anything, this setting is even more unstable than 133 x 17

So, new theory time. This magic 17x133 multiplier/fsb setting that posts, isn’t stable.

I’ve been running 140 x 16 and that seems stable. No errors in prime 95 after 8 hours. This is (according to CPU-Z) 2248MHz. I’ve bumped the FSB again now to 142MHz which gives me 2280MHz and I’m seeing how stable this is.

My oscilloscope and post code analysers have arrived so I can do some more fundamental tests now on the buses and the voltage rails to see if any other issues show up

Reply 63 of 63, by FullYes

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Nope. I was wrong. 142 x 16 hard locks the machine again on prime95 after a while, so it seems I might be at the limit of this CPU. Damn!

I can’t explain what was up at 124 x 17 though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Now trying 141x16 which should be 2256MHz but in CPU-Z is reporting 2266MHz.

I might get time tomorrow to check some base freqencies. I don’t remember having such a variance between actual freqency and target freqency on any motherboard. Ok it’s only 0.5% or so, but I’m used to stuff being much closer. Maybe I can change the crystal or the clock generator