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    Huh, and there was me thinking you were all over-clocking mad...

    I'll post details on what I get my 650 Athlon up to when it's installed (0.25 micron sob), I'm hoping for 800+mhz.

  • #2
    Just getting my 650 (also a 0.25ยต "SOB")up and running. I don't have a GFD yet still working on that decision. Maybe you could let me know how the FreeSpeed Pro works for you?
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    • #3
      You mean like this?

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      • #4
        FreeSpeed pro/Athlon

        The FreeSpeed pro from Ninja Micros looks like a dream for over-clocking the Athlon and it's only ยฃ40 ($65) Has anybody got one?

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        • #5
          If you want a fast Athlon, Greebe there is the way to go.
          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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          • #6
            I've got a freespeed pro card from ninja micro's. My Athlon 500 is at 700 rock stable not a bad increase for ยฃ40.. go for it..
            AthlonXP 1700+@1900+(1.59GHz) on Abit KG7, 512Mb DDRram, Elsa Gladiac 920, SB 128 pci, ADI microscan 17in monitor, Pioneer 6x dvd rom,Ricoh7083CDRW, 56k modem

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            • #7
              Hello hominid skull,

              What core (600MHz?) does your Athlon have?

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              • #8
                Well I've done it...
                It was pretty painless - my biggest problem
                was getting the processor out of it's socket (I didn't have any instructions).

                - I first switched my 650 to 700 and it worked fine.
                - I went to 750 and it was a little bit quirky, so I upped the voltage to 1.65V, then it worked fine.

                - To get to 800 I had to up voltage to 1.8V! and it was perfect, until I put the PC side cover back on and then it was all over the place. Do you think I'm pushing my luck at 1.8V or would I be fine if I just got extra cooling (and what do you recommend?).

                Even from 650 to 750 isn't bad for the money (even though the speed increase is difficult to perceive). I'll stick the Sandra benchmarks up tomorrow.

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                • #9
                  I'm using a FreeSpeed pro.

                  My Athlon 550 (with 750 Core) is currently clocked at 900MHz, 1/3 cache, 1.75v. I'm using a GlobalWin FKK50 cooler. Runs like a dream.

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                  • #10
                    How come people that buy 500 and 550s seem to get all the benefits from over-clocking. Guess I was shafted trying to be clever and buying a 650.
                    Do I need to adjust my L2 cache to work properly and how do you do it? Is this my problem (apart from extra cooling of course)?

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                    • #11
                      Here are the Sandra99 CPU results of my little freespeed adventure on my .25m Athlon 650...

                      Originally 650 at 1.60V
                      Integer MMX 1366 it/s
                      Floating Point 3DNow! 896 it/s
                      CPU Dhrystone 2168 MIPS
                      FPU Whetstone 892 MFLOPS

                      Then 750 at 1.65V
                      Integer MMX 1570 it/s
                      Floating Point 3DNow! 1030 it/s
                      CPU Dhrystone 2491 MIPS
                      FPU Whetstone 1026 MFLOPS

                      Finally 800 at 1.8V (hot?)
                      Integer MMX 1682 it/s
                      Floating Point 3DNow! 1104 it/s
                      CPU Dhrystone 2669 MIPS
                      FPU Whetstone 1099 MFLOPS

                      At 800 it runs like a dream with no extra cooling (but with the side panel of my PC off). The L2 cache utility states that it is running at 1/2 speed, so I guess it hasn't automatically been switched down to 1/3 - Would you expect this to work?
                      I think my Athlon is week 42.

                      To go any higher will I need to think about getting the utility that reduces the cache speed to 1/3? Should I stick at 800 (1.8V) and just buy an extra fan so that I can put my computer side panel back on (PC goes haywire when I put it on at the moment).

                      PS my MB is MSI 6167

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                      • #12
                        Also using freespeed pro - From 500 to 600. Runs stable - 1.75 voltage. Stock heatsink/fan combo - lots of case cooling. Peaks at 103 F. Could probably get 700 if I upped the voltage to 1.85 - but I don't want to risk a fry job.

                        P.S. week 31 production chip
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                        • #13
                          Just opened it up and it has the 600 core and 3.6ns cache.. Sorry it's a bit late, completely forgot about the thread

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                          AthlonXP 1700+@1900+(1.59GHz) on Abit KG7, 512Mb DDRram, Elsa Gladiac 920, SB 128 pci, ADI microscan 17in monitor, Pioneer 6x dvd rom,Ricoh7083CDRW, 56k modem

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