Duron Stepping Manual

[iggybaseball]

I want to make up a list of the best steppings for Durons:) I'm going cpu shopping next week:) So could you guys please help me out?

[train22]

how much of your wallet are you willing to acidify for the cpu?

[SickBoy]

AKCA and AKBA are the best Durons, but you're only going to find those in the older speeds - 600 to 700 MHz. I also imagine they're pretty rare as they were the first cores of Durons to be released. My 700 that I bought in February was a week 5 2001 AMCA... all the AKBA's and AKCA's are 2000 fab year chips.

Honestly, for as cheap as a TBird 1 GHz is, you'd almost be better off going that route, or else trying to find a 1 GHz Morgan core Duron. It's getting kind of ridiculous to try and overclock Durons, esp. the Spitfire cores. We're finding out that no matter the rated speed, they're topping at around 1250 or so. And when the cooling costs more than the chip, you gotta wonder a little. Now a Morgan - that would excite me. It's a new frontier, a new chip to play with.

Just my 2 cents (though I spewed quite a bit more than 2 cents worth :) )

SickBoy

[Paul -The Mad Hatter]

http://www.athlonoc.com has a list of steppings and how far they oc'ed.

[eobard]

Originally posted by SickBoy
AKCA and AKBA are the best Durons, but you're only going to find those in the older speeds - 600 to 700 MHz. I also imagine they're pretty rare as they were the first cores of Durons to be released. My 700 that I bought in February was a week 5 2001 AMCA... all the AKBA's and AKCA's are 2000 fab year chips.
SickBoy

Actually my 800 is an AKCA. From what I've read the AKBA are the absolute best with the AKCA a solid second. I got a good overclock out of mine, read the sig.

[GuNRocK]

well i got 2 Durons a 650 and a 700 the 650 is chiped for the top 2 corners of the core just slightly... dam golden orb for socket 462!!....well the 650 here is da info

D650AST1B
AKKA0022APFW
91692250176
1999 AMD

this core wasnt as good as my 700..this one could only get 900~950 int he middle some where and the 700 was able to get 969Mhz and more later on i ended up with 997mhz.... after the chip was chiped i still had it overclocked to 850mhz and running stably @ 1.65v at 200bus i must have chiped it in last week of July2000 and i took it off 2 days ago to replace it with teh 700 since dthis comp gota 1ghz tbird and then i found out i was running it into the ground chiped for over 1 year LOL

DAM THESE LITTLE SUCKERS DONT DIE EASILY!!!! HEHE:D :D