old question......1.2Gig or 1.33Gig???

[lightning]

humm......how to said....my friend just fried his P3 700 chip and he was planning to change his whole system!! now he was very interested in T-birb and want me to help to hook up a system!! i was seaching around and find that 1.2 and 1.33Gig chip are best for ocing!! now is the deal...if i set up a system with water cooling but with no extra voltage or case mod!! how much with those chip goes?? would anyone who willing to guild me through??? which chip will be best??? 1.2 or 1.33???

[William]

hmm, it seems the 1.3 ghz AXIA 200fsb just overclock higher. The 1ghz and 1.2ghz AXIAs overclock about the same. If you want a recommended list shoot me an e-mail at dunno260@lycos.com with your budget for the project and I will tell you what I would get if I had the money.

[Rob Cork]

I assume when you say no extra voltage you mean no volt mod - that's pretty sensible, cos it's going to be hard enough keeping a 1.2/1.33 cool at 1.85V, let alone 2.2V! I'd add a couple of case fans along with the fan(s) on the radiator if you're watercooling, or duct cool air through the radiator - you don't want warm air going through it. As for which chip to go for, like William said the 1.3gig would probably be better, though it's generally a pretty close thing so I'd go with whatever you can get and not worry too much about it.

[lightning]

sound like it was a tough job over here!! he told me he don't want the pc to be too loud!! and i was the one who will hook up all the thing for him, and i was totally new in T-bird and those soldering stuff!! so i was pretty much assume those can be avoided!! kind of choosy over here...hee!!! :)

[Ferg]

I think the question is not 1.2 Gig or 1.33 gig, but 1.0 gig AXIA or 1.33 gig AYHJA or 1.2 Gig Athlon 4. Here is a link to a chart showing all of the steppings and their average overclock... http://www.athlonoc.com/stepping2.php
and here is a link to a first overclock of the Athlon 4 1.2 Gig... http://www.athlonoc.com/athlon4overclocking.php

Hope that helps