Worst luck on an Athlon

I just picked up a week 51 500 today, and it's only a 600 core... Damnit! Well, I guess I'll see what I can get out of it....

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

i got my months ago and it was a week 40 600 w3.3 ns cache and it'll do 750 all day.. Planning on going to 800 one day..

but the worst luck would be you

break it in half trying to get the damn casin off..

overheat the pcb when soldering and raise a few traces..

spill a shaker full of salt on the core....

Give it a bath with that nice water cooler you just installed...

Just a few "pick me ups"

True... I guess my luck is far from the worst... In this house I think more likely the path to its destruction would be someone driven crazy by the holidays deciding to stomp on it... (or maybe when I make my OCing card +5v will get sent directly into the core... that would definitely be bad)

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

Bad luck??? You got an Athlon 600 for the price of an Athlon 500. You should be happy. As for me my Athlon 500 is an Athlon 500.

I kinda overspoke myself. I was really expecting a 650 core.. What week is yours?

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

Hey fellas,

Anyone know where I can get an Athlon
500 with a 650 core??? I am trying to decide
between getting a 500 and overclock to 650.. or get a 750 and overclock to what it will let me.

Thanks
Rich H.

A 650 core should be able to do 750 easy. Put some good cooling and you might hit 800. I have heard that week 42-45's tend to have 650 cores.

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

My cache has a -36 on it. I'm guessing this means 3.6 ns cache? ARRG! looks like I'm going to have to go to a 1/3 divider to get over 600 mhz...

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

3.6ns isnt that bad.. it just means that you will need very good cooling if you up the voltage enough to make it to 700+(@1.8-1.85) i have seen a 500 with a 500 core and 4ns cache make it to 850+ 1/2 @1.9v with a good peltier setup and water cooling. It's a game of tug of war.. I am running an athlon 500 w 600 core and 3.3 ns cache @ 750 1/2 @ 1.8v that easily goes well beyond the "rating" of the cache. the higher voltage will increase your likelyhood but there is a limit.... with 3.6ns cache i would not expect to go higher than 1.85v and 750 mhz aircooled...however with good cooling ( keep it below 100f ) you should be able to hit 750 1/2...

week 51?
0.18 micron or 0.25?

you could always go with the 2/5 cache divider...

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Damn, OCing is taking over my life... I ordered an Iced Athy Latte at Starbucks the other day!!!

I don't think they make the 500's in .18 micron. I think it's only the 750's. Also I don't think there's a setting for 2/5 cache divider, only 1:1, 1/2, and 1/3.

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

I take that one back. From what I read, the bios tends to automatically scale the cache back to 2/5 when the processor is set past 650. Anyone know anything else on this?

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MoooOooOoo damnit!!
-SkrUboL
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte166q

Ok this is going to soud rather stupid to some but where do you find what week/core your proccessor is?
i take it you have to crack the casing ?

the week number is on the outside. it's the last 2 digits on the bottom number. The core speed is on the inside though. Printed on the core itself.

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MooOoo!