Thunderbirds, the same?

[Diversion]

Are Tbird chips of 1GHZ and higher essentially the same exact chip ?

My 1.1ghz is on the way, and i'm afraid might have wasted money on the 1.1ghz if the 1ghz is the same exact chip, both with only different labels.

Basically, my concern is will a 1.1 ghz chip be able to overclock FURTHER than a 1ghz chip ? Or will both chips overclock to the same extreme?

What i'm wondering, is if you have both a 1ghz and 1.1ghz Tbird chip... and you put them both under a FOP38 fan on a KT7-RAID and on the 1ghz chip you top out at 1300mhz (for example), would you top out at 1300mhz on the 1.1ghz as well? Or would you be able to hit 1400mhz because it's a 1.1ghz?

I hope this made sense..

Jay

[Fenris]

I suspect them to produce only one type of chip. Maybe the final clock speed depends on quality control and benchmark results after the manufacturing process.

No, it´s not that easy to predict overclocking success like you think. Take a look at the CPU database and forums, and you will find various overclocking results with different chips! I think, luck plays the biggest part here!

[Vector]

The answer to your question is somewhat of a tossup...
What revision of the 1GHz chip you have will have a major effect on the overclockability of the chip...for example, if you have a newer 1GHz chip with the same architectural designs of the 1.1 and 1.2, you will likely reach 1200 or 1300MHz, but the older revision would only get to something like 1.1GHz...

Essentially, most processor that are close to the same speed grade share the exact same architecture, but the higher speed grade processor was probably a better or "more pure" chip...thus, the higher speed stock chip will LIKELY reach higher frequencies than the lower speed of the same architecture...
It's safe to say that if both of your processors have blue cores (when the new one comes in), they have the exact same architecture...but you'll probably get the 1.1 higher