So why is everyone going for the AXIA 1200 chips? Why AXIA?

[A-Bomb]

Hmmmmm

[rick106]

Axia is the code of the chip. AXIA chips are apparently the best for ocing. The average ocing score with the AXIA 1ghz is usually around 1450. Which is pretty fantastic. Dunno what it is with the 1200 chip but it would be less if it wasnt an AXIA chip. SO concluding just better ocing I think,

Rich

[Bobby Manus]

1.33 AXIA better then 1.2??? They are like basically the same price, like withen 5$ from each other, so I was planing on going with the 1.2... So the 1.3 serisuly has better o/cing potenial???

[rick106]

No, Not really that different bobby. I dont know how the hell they got over 2ghz tho. I dont know what motherboard they used because the max most can go is the 12.5 multiplier and the rest is up to the FSB. So to get over 2ghz u either have some mammoth mb I havent seen or u get the FSB to 160. Which is a little over the nice and cool status.
If u have a look at the CPU database(at the ocers.com home page), there is a list of the chips and u will be able to rate the overclockability for urself. I myself are going to get an AXIA 1Ghz because they are very overclockable( say to 1450Mhz).

Rich

[rick106]

sorry

[rick106]

Sorry pressed post three times cos it was working slow

[Yomama]

AXIA is the code on the cpu core that designates the latest CPU generation (also called stepping). Each stepping has little improvements over the previous one, making it a little better overclockable. WRT to whether a 1.33 AXIA is better than a 1.2 AXIA I would say that there is no certainty that the 1.33 will o/c higher, though I would assume that it may have been tested higher for stability.

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