Question about AMD release of the 1.53 gighertz chip

[Me]

Ok since the 1.4 chip sucks when it comes to overclocking and barely makes it to 1.7 gighertz how in the world is the 1.53 chip going to overclock then. I mean people are saying you need at least 350 watt power supply if you want to overclcok the 1.4 chip to 1.6 gighertz or higher. It seems to me i should just get the 1.33 chip overclock it to 1.6 and forget about the 1.53 chip

[spankin_hank]

Go for the 1.33, I have the 1.4 and it is a very hot running chip and its overclocking abilities are sub par at best.

[TranceBear]

By the time you have a 1.4 gig chip I would hope you would also already have a 350watt P/S or better, hopefully better. If you want to safely get over 1.5 gig on ANY chip, 400watt plus is required in my book. I started with a 350watt, and now I have a 431watt enermax. My voltages became much more stable. If you have doubts on the quality of components you need to do a quality O/C, look at all the posts for $150.00 AMD keychains. Good Luck!!

[KC Coldbrook]

Guys, get a grip...

A simple mathematical projection of the wattage dissipation of the Palomino line, from the AthlonMP 1.2 extended to a hypothetical 1.53 GHz, shows an estimated 69.2 watts. That wattage is in-between the Thunderbird 1.3 and 1.33 chips.

KC

[Ferg]

KC Coldbrook (Jul 08, 2001 10:06 p.m.):
Guys, get a grip...

A simple mathematical projection of the wattage dissipation of the Palomino line, from the AthlonMP 1.2 extended to a hypothetical 1.53 GHz, shows an estimated 69.2 watts. That wattage is in-between the Thunderbird 1.3 and 1.33 chips.

KC

That a way to put some sense into the situation Coldbrook. He is absolutly right. AMD is smarter than to make their processors consume too much power. If they did that then every company that sells AMD systems would have to pay extra money to put in more powerful power supplys and Joe Blow who upgrades from time to time, but doesnt know too much about computers would have serious problems and have no idea how to fix it when he upgraded his processor. Rather than create a huge problem for themselves AMD went ahead and reworked the core so that this would not happen. What people do not realize when they see the lackluster results from Palomino overclocking is that the newer core was not made to overclock better than the Thunderbird, but to run at lower wattage for the average buyer. This way consumers do not have to buy a new power supply and AMD does not have to package more powerful heatsinks with their retail CPU's.