Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition CPU Review

Overclocking

We did some basic overclocking with the new Phenom II X6 1100T. We used the AMD stock cooler and didn’t play a lot with all options available, so with more time and patience you may achieve results even better than ours. We ran Super Street Fighter IV to test the system stability.

We were able to increase its base clock from 200 MHz to 240 MHz, making the CPU basic internal clock to be 4 GHz, a 21.2% increase on its internal clock rate. This is an outstanding achievement.

Then we decided to play with the unlocked clock multiplier. The best combination we could use was setting the clock multiplier at 17.5x (from its 16.5x default multiplier) and, at the same time, increasing the base clock to 230 MHz, making our CPU to run at 4.03 GHz internally, a 22% increase on its internal clock rate.

In Figure 1 you can see the CPU-Z screenshot of this overclocking. With more time and patience you will probably be able to achieve even better results.

Figure 1: Overclocking