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Athlon XP 1800+ Tbred A and B steppings: What you can expect from em.

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Michal[mt]

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Sep 5, 2001
Hi All
Hope this thread could be interesting and may pull up some questions regarding incredible frequencies reached by some phantomatic people =]
I will talk about two cpu's I got in my rig and they are:
- Athlon XP 1800+ Tbred 'A' AIUGA 0248
- Athlon XP 1800+ Tbred 'B' JIUCB 0250
Before starting explaining which frequencies I have touched with both of em and whick kind of stability I have obteined let me talk about which cooling system was used to stress both cpu's. It has been used a homemade pure copper waterblock which dimensions are 6cm x 5cm and a water tank capable of 4.2 liters.
Let's start:

o The A stepping cpu never could go higher than 2058 mhz(179*11.5) using 2.05 volts
I have tryed to spin up the vcore till to 2.15 volts and the result was that the chip never wanted to pass the ~2060 mhz barrier.
Increasing the multipier of only 0.5x and decreasing at the same time the FSB the cpu never wanted to initialize...I have tried with all voltage values.
In conclusion the AIUGA chip frozen itself at 2058 mhz with a huge vcore value of 2.05v

o The B stepping cpu was capable of catching from myself a nice smile...this cpu reached the barrier encountered by the first one with a vcore of only 1.65v!
With a voltage value of 1.75 this chip could reach the frequency of ~2083 mhz(166.33*12.5)!
At this point I have sayd "Ok...nice! Now let me see what you are able to do!" and I have started increasing the FSB...well firstly I have tried to increase of only a bit the multiplier factor but it did not work...it frozen itself at 12.5.
So going apple by apple I have obteined a rock solid frequency of ~2238 mhz(179*12.5) with a 1.95 vcore.(1.952 - 1.968 volts)
Going higher than 1.95v did not bring any frequency increase.

Oblivious both o'clock freq. have to be considered as "rock solid"
Now I don t want to say that most of the people floating on this forum are not saying the truth but you all have to consider that there are some bad people that want you to spend all your life-time in thinking how to kill your cpu's by reaching "not-terrain" frequencies.
I was going to forget...the AIUGA cpu was tested on an Asus A7v333 modded mb, the JIUCB was tested and is still living on an Asus A7v8x mb.
The radiator I've used is a car Delphi one(13.5x26x4 cm). Plugged on it there is a 12x12x3.5 cm air-fan.
 
Cool. Sounds like JIUCB aren't all as poor as mine was (Mine made ~2015 at 1.85v)

Have you got pics of your waterblock in the gallery?
 
Hi Lithan...it is nice to see someone interested in my thread.
All the pics representing my wb are the following:

http://members.xoom.it/mygame/11.jpg
http://members.xoom.it/mygame/12.jpg
http://members.xoom.it/mygame/m15.jpg
http://members.xoom.it/mygame/m16.jpg
http://members.xoom.it/mygame/m17.jpg
http://members.xoom.it/mygame/sa.jpg

I have to say that mine wb is a hand made but not made by my hands =]
Well...I have bought it for a cheap price from a person here in my town that has the right machines to make them.
The plug in staff was a bit modified to be more suitable with my first wb that has made its work well enough sometime ago.
The radiator that makes its apparence in one of the pics was changed one month ago with the more performant Delphi one.
For those sceptical people =] I took a pic of cpu-z with the SuperPI iterations ended.
Any opinion about my "raw" cooling system is wellcome =]
 
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