Overclocking an Athlon 200GE
Overclocking an Athlon 200GE
So, the Athlon 200GE cannot be overclocked as it has a locked multiplier, or at least it should have. We're testing on a B450 board with the latest AGESA 1006 BIOS and, guess what, it's unlocked on the multiplier, thank you MSI; as with that enabled multiplier we managed to get a proper 3.9 GHz out of the two cores at a voltage of 1.4 volts. One thing you do need to keep in mind is that the memory will be restricted to 2667 MHz maximum (dual-channel). So if you opt for this proc, please do not opt for a more expensive 3200 Mhz kit or anything.
You guys know it - when you're gonna tweak, always invest in good hardware. And that includes a proper MOBO/PSU/Memory and cooling, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking with fewer power phases. Please, never underestimate a good power supply and, sure, proper processor cooling. Overclocking with a more core processor (doesn't matter if that is Intel or AMD) is more difficult than you expect it to be. You could apply a fixed voltage.
What you need to do:
- Enable and start at 3600 MHz (36x Multiplier)
- Apply ~1.40V to the CPU (or simply leave it at auto)
- Enable XMP on your memory kit (2667 MHz CL14)
A small tip
Keep in mind I mentioned voltage tweaking, the reality is that leaving the motherboard on auto and altering just the CPU multiplier is sufficient as well. We booted at 4000 MHz on ALL cores however that was not stable. We ended at 3900 MHz with 1.40v.
By manually tweaking that, you can probably settle at 1.400~1.425v. Again, we used a stock cooler here, 4000 MHz did not run stable with the stock cooler, 3900 Mhz however did.
Below, some new benchmark results based on the overclock.
Tweaked we see 417 points with both cores at 3900 MHz. Coming from ~360 points at defaults.
409 seconds for a full prime 1024M run coming from 492. That's very substantial.
5988 was the Time Spy Score with 1792 on the CPU, we now bump up towards 6534 points with 1918 on the CPU score.
