HP and AMD

[Yuriman]

As far as I knew, HP had dropped amd a while ago. I was reading the sales adds for some stores, and HP is selling retail PC's with athlon64's already. Seems like 64bit is catching on fast.

 

[Cyrix_2k]

I don't think HP dropped AMD. I'm using an HP Pavilon 523n with a 2200+ inside right now

P.S. Were you reading the BB catalog? Notice how BIG the A64 logo was?

:edit: It's my dad's system. Not mine.

P.P.S. The logo was even larger than the p4 logo. However the mobile Xp logo was very small. Almost microscopic.

 

[Yuriman]

I noticed that. It was like 4in x 4in. That one PC had half a page to itself.

 

[SunRedRX7]

The VP where I work recently got an HP with an XP2500 and Nforce2 board in it, I'm sure its a "special" nforce2 board that HP had changed a little, but they do sell AMD stuff.

 

[josephtischer]

Most HP Motherboards are custom versions of the ASUS mobos with a different power wiring and a different front switch wiring. This is why if you replace the mobo you also have to replace the power supply.

As for the question of if HP still supports HP just check their website. They still support AMD and sell it in their shop.

 

[polarys425]

The VP where I work recently got an HP with an XP2500 and Nforce2 board in it, I'm sure its a "special" nforce2 board that HP had changed a little, but they do sell AMD stuff.

has to make you wonder what stepping the cpu is, doesnt it?

 

[josephtischer]

Easy on the evil thoughts there polarysy425. OEM PCs are a beast to try and take the proc out. That and that thernal pad doo doo they use never truely comes off the cpu. I have tried brake fluid, alcohol of varing percents (50 - 90) and I still can see little traces of that ineffective white stuff imbedded in the little details of the cpu.

I do wonder though if that proc is locked.....

 

[Tebore]

Easy on the evil thoughts there polarysy425. OEM PCs are a beast to try and take the proc out. That and that thernal pad doo doo they use never truely comes off the cpu. I have tried brake fluid, alcohol of varing percents (50 - 90) and I still can see little traces of that ineffective white stuff imbedded in the little details of the cpu.

I do wonder though if that proc is locked.....

Yeh I hear you I bent all the pins on a Willy P4 because of the stupid pad. The chip was stuck solid to the heatsink and I yanked it out.
The processor probably isn't locked. What I seemed to notice is OEMs seem to get the kind of processors that we overclockers want. HP/ Compaq back in the Tbird days started to use AMD when AMD came out with AHYJA steppings.

 

[funnyperson1]

It was actually Gateway that you remember dropping AMD. HPCompaq still sell many AMDs.

 

[Sk8erfreak986]

Yea they def still sell AMD's cause i just bought my Hp Pavillion 4560 last week and it's got a 2500 in it....I like how the multiplier on this thing throttles up and down as it is needed

 

[Tebore]

Yea they def still sell AMD's cause i just bought my Hp Pavillion 4560 last week and it's got a 2500 in it....I like how the multiplier on this thing throttles up and down as it is needed

Interesting... does it use an NF2 Chipset? Because I thought NF2 couldn't take advantage of Powernow! But if it can then it would useful to people who are trying to unlock the locked chips.

 

[Sk8erfreak986]

I'm not sure what this things chipset is let me take a look

...

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/cpu shot.JPG
^^Look at the Multiplier when i'm doin nothing^^

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/shot2.JPG
and the chipset is some ATI thing

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/throttledup.JPG
^^Throttled up^^

 

[Tebore]

I'm not sure what this things chipset is let me take a look

...

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/cpu shot.JPG
^^Look at the Multiplier when i'm doin nothing^^

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/shot2.JPG
and the chipset is some ATI thing

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/throttledup.JPG
^^Throttled up^^

Oh it's a laptop right. I thought it was a desktop
I have the same thing happening on my Laptop as well. Really improves the battery life. It uses the ATI IGP320 chipset if I'm not mistaken.

 

[bulk88]

Yup and for have a sec I thought HP was using the a mobile chipdset in a desktop machine. But I see no harm in that. But why would they put a mobile proc into it? I understand the intergrated graphic, don't understand the mobile proc, if it were a desktop machine.

 

[Anaxagoras1986]

Dont most mobos that bring the cpu speed up and down for desktops do it via fsb increases and descreases?

 

[Sk8erfreak986]

I'm not sure about that I have never seen it happen more than a few fsb fluctuation like 3 - 5 up and down

 

[Tebore]

They use Multiplyers because it creates more dramatic drops in speed and thus can lower the voltage more. Fluxations in FSB would likly be Spread Spectrum.

 

[dippy_skoodlez]

The VP where I work recently got an HP with an XP2500 and Nforce2 board in it, I'm sure its a "special" nforce2 board that HP had changed a little, but they do sell AMD stuff.

LoL... it is... it is... =P

 

[dippy_skoodlez]

Easy on the evil thoughts there polarysy425. OEM PCs are a beast to try and take the proc out. That and that thernal pad doo doo they use never truely comes off the cpu. I have tried brake fluid, alcohol of varing percents (50 - 90) and I still can see little traces of that ineffective white stuff imbedded in the little details of the cpu.

I do wonder though if that proc is locked.....

Oh god.. my mom has a T-bird HP, and the after I took the heatsink off, I could read the STEPPING from the HEATSINK!!!! I still can today.. runnning at its wonderful 60C in a new case....

 

[dippy_skoodlez]

Yeh I hear you I bent all the pins on a Willy P4 because of the stupid pad. The chip was stuck solid to the heatsink and I yanked it out.
The processor probably isn't locked. What I seemed to notice is OEMs seem to get the kind of processors that we overclockers want. HP/ Compaq back in the Tbird days started to use AMD when AMD came out with AHYJA steppings.

BTW, thats the stepping my mom has any good? =P That little stinker was running 27C with my slk a day ago!