AMD is preparing OverDrive utility designed to compete similar products from Intel and NVIDIA. This new software will allow to overclock motherboard based on latest AMD chipset.
Associate already received at its disposal not only the retail version of motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 but also the beta version of OverDrive utility . They tested the OverDrive utility with AMD 790FX chipsets and Athlon 64 X2 5000 + Black Edition processor with air cooler Zalman CNPS9500-AM2.
This processor has free multiplier .Associate, had not verified the motherboard overclocking capability since the Clock frequency generator was equal to 200 MHz, and the multiplier was raised to 18 x. At 3.6 GHz frequency the processor was not able to maintain stability, but at 3.54 GHz frequency it was stable enough. Note that built in automatic overclock processor function allowed to overclock up to 3,425 GHz. An excellent result for air cooling and 65 nm AMD dual processor .
We hope that the new AMD chipset will be able to fully disclose the ability of A64 and Phenom processor .
Here is some screen shot from overdrive utility :