How high is the athlon 4 supposed to go????

[Me]

I know that the t-birds will probbly stop around 1.6 gigertz.

[TranceBear]

There is not a "limit" I have seen. You can take t-birdies as high as your cooling will allow. But will it be usable?, probaly not.

[Paul -The Mad Hatter]

the palimino's are projected to go as high as 2.1ghz. Although the athlon were supposed to only do 1.2ghz i think, so we will have to see.

[Me]

Do you think the iwill kk266 will support those rated speeds . I mean i want to upgrade my mobo but what the use if the current mobos are only going uo to 15x multi

[Tom]

well 15x133 = 1995mhz so yes i think kk266 can do it

[GERRY136]

excellent post... love to hear the opinions on the palamino for oc rough limits

[TranceBear]

Me (Jul 18, 2001 06:03 p.m.):
Do you think the iwill kk266 will support those rated speeds . I mean i want to upgrade my mobo but what the use if the current mobos are only going uo to 15x multi

I am sure they will have BIOS updates to get us those high multiplyers.

[AtomicGuY]

actually, a real possitive note, AMD can virtually give any amount of multiplier settings since they have been doing it hardware lately. So when the Palominos hit the market, be sure to buy the 200bus version since there multipliers will be locked at like 15x, 16x, and 17x, they will overclock even higher when set to higher fsb's. Remember, you can also tone down the multiplier to 12.5X which all motherboards support and then raise the front side bus if you cant hit 266MHz bus with the 200MHz bus chips at that high of a multiplier.

Other notes,
The current Palominos judging by the pictures posted around the net have 5 bridges for the multiplier which means a max multiplier of 17X.
If they made Palominos with 6 bridges, wow, look out, that would then put the peak max multiplier to 21X.

But I think that there wont be 6 bridges with Palomino.

Finally, it's almost pointless to have a 16X multiplier or higher. I hope we all learned from Intel Celeron2's that used 66MHz with 8X+ multipliers. That 16X multiplier on the Athlon is just like 8X with the celeron2. Since the Athlon is DDR, it gets the bottleneck break that the celeron did not had. Thats why we see the Athlon with such a high multiplier.

The Athlon has a bottleneck at 16X, refer to the Celeron2 533MHz (66x8) vs (100x5). Watch how the 100MHz bus gives a wopping 20% increase in processing power. This comparing a 533MHz Celeron with both 66bus and 100bus.

[ManOfKnight]

when AMD first came out with the Athlon thunderbird the limit was 1.5Ghz or so they said....as we have seen the Athlon truly outperforms expectations....the palamino they say will stop at AROUND 2 Ghz, Amd wanting to be the first to reach the pinnacle ( well not reach it, but mass produce them ).