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  • Does anyone have an Athlon yet?

    Just out of pure curiosity, does anyone on this forum have, or know someone who has, and Athlon system. I am curious what they think about their new cutting edge computer.

    Jammrock

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    Someone's got an Athlon 500 on this forum, I remember reading it in a signature the other day......

    That wasn't much help was it....


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    • #3
      The folks out there OC'ing their K7's are getting nice results. Slowing down the L2 cache to 1/3 clock is letting people get their K7 500/550's to 750+. Niiice.
      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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      • #4
        750 at 1/2 clock should be more than stable, thats only 375mhz. Celerons have been running higher than that for over a year!
        Celeron 566@877 1.8V, 256meg generic PC-100 RAM (running at CAS2) Abit BH6, G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A(morphed to mp7060A) Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775

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        • #5
          One of the reasons Celerons are so easy to overclock is their on-die cache, which essentially makes it part of the processor. With PII, PIII, and Athlon, the seperate cache makes things a bit trickier. Both the processor core and the cache memory have to have a high tolerance for successful overclocking to take place. 375MHz is still a pretty high speed for this memory. Things are always improving, though...

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          • #6
            It's not fair to compare caches anyway. K7's are much larger, and I believe that their L1 is 128kB all by itself (64 data / 64 instruction).
            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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            • #7
              I wonder how high speeds will go before overclocking is gone. Because you do know that no matter how many fans you put in a case air(even water) can only cool material so much. So unless there is a new way(cheaper than slapping some Bose-Einstein compound on) of super cooling a chip or some material that conducts but doesn't melt overclocking and chip speeds in general will plateau sometime.
              Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
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              • #8
                Nah, we'll be using alternate materials for our chips before we stop being able to cool them. Copper, that new HP chemical setup, optical busses, and quantum computing.
                Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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