Athlons

[old.Nige]

Ok, there hasnt really been much of a discussion about these new Athlons so I thought I may as well start one.

All though Athlons are very pricey at the moment, toms hardware guide said that they managed to over clock them to 750mhz with no additional cooling!! But the only problem right now is you have to crack open the Athlon case and do abit of DIY soldering.

Although this is the case at the moment, he did mention that there would soon be cards that you can plug in to the internal connector to overclock it.

So I'm thinking it might be a good idea to invest in an Athlon NOW before AMD change the design like intel did with their Celeron 300a to prevent your from overclocking. And everyone know's Athlon beats the pants off the PIII anyway

http://www.tomshardware.com checkout the Athlon overclocking bit.

Nige


[This message has been edited by Nige (edited 06 September 1999).]

 

[old.lucifa]

AMD won't stop Athlons being overclocked.
They have been quoted many times saying that they "fully support overclocking".

Lucifa

 

[old.Nige]

Well on Toms overclocking page he actually says that AMD was against his artical! Maybe he was wrong?

Nige

 

[old.Fish]

I suspect it's more beacuse they don't want to deal with warranty claims for duffed-up athlons... (that's deal with, not replace...)

 

[old.Nige]

I'm seriously considering getting an Athlon 500 then overclocking it to 750mhz but I'm not going to open the thing up. I'm going to wait for that card to come out which connects onto the internal connector to overclock it.

But how internal is that internal connector exactly? coz if it like involves breaking the case open to get at it, whats the point? Also does anyone know when this overclocking card is comeing out and who's going to be supplying it?

Nige

 

[old.TUG]

AMD wont change the design of the athlon any time remotly soon as its WAY too costly - eg intel celerons when 1st released were highly based on the PII450 - know why? saves intels costs and saves the bother setting up a new production line, and as we all know, AMD aint in the best financial state atm...

I wouldnt buy one for a while yet... Id wait for this overclocking tool to be released 1st at least...

AMD dont 'fully support overclocking' - they just aint gonna stop people doing it... cuz they aint lame like intel heheh but intel CPU's are good - especially C366's at 550 (like what i have funnily enough...

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Im fairly sure that you would still have to break the case off to get to the connectors anyway... you dont wanna lose big money now do yaz...

 

[old.Fish]

Yep, tomshardware has pictures of them opened and closed, and you'll definately have to crack the case open if you want to overclock them. Once someone works out how to work the internal conector, it weans you won't need to do surface-mount soldering on your athlon... (not for the faint-hearted... basically it involves soldering on/off little black things that are too small to pick up, while trying not to burn your way through your new processor...)

 

[old.lucifa]

Oops, sorry yes I meant 'won't stop overclocking' not 'support it'.
Doh

Lucifa