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While we've used a 3000+ for testing for the longest time, I figured it was time to step up. For this review, I worked through a friend to get a nice clocker of a CPU - a week 515 3200+ Venice. For those of you out there in the know about Athlon 64 overclocking, you'll know about the potential these chips have. Potential for high clocks and heavy heat loads that is. So heavy in fact, that on mere air cooling, we can't pass 2.7GHz as of yet. This chip will become the foundation of our new heat sink, water block and motherboard overclocking test machine, as its harsh demands will be able to show off just how far this hardware can go. For our testing, we've also elected to fly in a new motherboard - a DFI SLI-D to be exact, in order to help out with overclocking some very nice memory as well as the CPU itself. While we may not be able to test the MCW30 in SLI, we can still test to see if there is an HTT increase, as well as how effective the MCW30 is with a single card in use. Our AMD liquid test bed is as follows:
- Athlon 64 3200+ "Venice" 0515
- DFI NF4 SLI-D
- 2x1GB Corsair XMS3500LL Pro
- 2x6800GT In SLI, 1x6800 GT for chipset testing
- Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
- Open Air Test Bench
- Swiftech MCP600
- Weapon 302 Heater core
- Swiftech Apogee Block
- Swiftech MCW30 Block (later tests)
- Swiftech MCW60 Block (later tests)
 Swiftech's finest, bolted down and ready to roll
Stock Clocks:
Idle
- CPU Alone: 30
- CPU with Chipset: 30
- CPU with GPU: 30
- GPU: 41
- Chipset: 31
Load
- CPU Alone: 35
- CPU with Chipset: 35
- CPU with GPU 36
- GPU: 43
- Chipset: 36
Overclocked
Idle
- CPU Alone: 32
- CPU with Chipset: 32
- CPU with GPU 35
- GPU: 40
- Chipset: 31
Load
- CPU Alone: 40
- CPU with Chipset 40
- CPU with GPU 42
- GPU: 44
- Chipset: 39
Maximum Clocks:
- CPU on Air Alone: 2,700 MHz
- CPU with Apogee: 2,900 MHz
- Chipset on Air Alone: 361 MHz
- Chipset with MCW30: 382 MHz
- GPU on Stock Cooling: 415 MHz
- GPU on Extreme Air: 440 MHz
- GPU with MCW60: 445MHz
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