New to AMD.

[Kingslayer]

Wow. I ordered a cheap Athlon 850 and a Gigabyte K7-IXE mobo from TigerDirect for a replacement system for my fileserver. It was a 200MMX.

I figured that I was going to get one of the original K7 Athlons. Turns out this thing is a SlotA T-bird. A buddy showed me the difference (no cache chips on either side of the core) as I know almost nothing about these systems.

Tried to take it up to 975 but the memory I have (ie cheap) won't cut it. What is the average speed that this chip can hit, I would look it up in the database, but it's not working for the 850.

[SickBoy]

That article lists only socket TBird steppings. As far as I know, the Slot A Tbirds either:

1. Don't have a stepping printed on the core or
2. It wont matter anyway, given the fact that the Slot A Birds were made early on in the realm of TBirds and probably have a cruddy stepping anyway.

Kingslayer, do you have a GFD? I'd recommend one, as the chipsets for slot A birds don't take well to much FSB overclocking.

SickBoy

[Kingslayer]

Thanks for the info.

I'm not going to go with the GFD for this. The cost of the GFD doesn't warrant the small gains that will probably come from this chip. Even with watercooling I'm not seeing to many of these early T-Birds breaking a Gig. So to me it's not worth it.

It will just have to humm along at stock speed. It runs XP well, and that's all that matters.

I will try not to let the inabilities of an old chip jade my break into the AMD experience.

But that's gonna be hard. :)

[tbirdkiri]

it was a strugle at first,
but a few years back i went over, (to AMD)
AND IM NEVER GOIN BACK!!! WOOOHHOOOOO