Upgrade time. Need some stepping advice.

[Oni]

Well, I'm finally going to go XP. W/ my tax return in and a buyer for the board/chip/RAM in the sig, I'm going to need new stuff.

I'm going for an Asus A7V266-E RAID w/ 256MB of DDR PC2100 and an XP 1600+.

My question to you, is which stepping of the chip should I choose? I've done some looking around and have seen 3 major steppings (although they may be the ONLY steppings for XPs):

AGOGA
AGKGA
AGNGA

I know that the best overclockers have a "Y" or at the very least some letter in the third line, so that's a given.

I just want to know which of these steppings are the best.

And please, no comments along the lines of: "You should wait untill the T-bred comes out and buy one of those." I am however going to wait until the T-breds become readily available, because that'll push down the price of the XP a bit more.

And I can't shop online, so nothing along the lines of that, please.

Thx, guys!

 

[Gilgamesh]

Well, I'm finally going to go XP. W/ my tax return in and a buyer for the board/chip/RAM in the sig, I'm going to need new stuff.

I'm going for an Asus A7V266-E RAID w/ 256MB of DDR PC2100 and an XP 1600+.

My question to you, is which stepping of the chip should I choose? I've done some looking around and have seen 3 major steppings (although they may be the ONLY steppings for XPs):

AGOGA
AGKGA
AGNGA

I know that the best overclockers have a "Y" or at the very least some letter in the third line, so that's a given.

I just want to know which of these steppings are the best.

And please, no comments along the lines of: "You should wait untill the T-bred comes out and buy one of those." I am however going to wait until the T-breds become readily available, because that'll push down the price of the XP a bit more.

And I can't shop online, so nothing along the lines of that, please.

Thx, guys!

AGKGA<AGNGA<AGOGA
And then you have AGOIA the newest one XP2100 running at 1.73Ghz

 

[Oni]

I'll have to see how that one overclocks, and wether or not it's even available on the XP1600+

 

[Oni]

I'm shocked. Nobody here has information on the overclockability of these steppings?!

 

[cjlax5]

i have the AGKGA 1600+ and ive gotten it past 1.6Ghz, im pretty sure i could go a bit higher but my generic ram craps out

 

[Oni]

Well, that makes 1 for AGKGA. Anybody else?

 

[peppy]

heres another for agkga, mine goes to 1653mhz, but my psu is holdin me back.

 

[ThePunkGeek]

i have an AGKGA does 152FSB ram holding me back havnt unlocked yet (its xp1700)

 

[Rezman5]

Oni, try the CPU database for more info. I would think a senior would know that!

 

[maxima88]

I've got an unlocked 1700+ AGOGA that I've gotten to 1650mhz but runs a bit unstable. very stable at 1613 though. I'm kinda limited w/ o/c options due to my mobo.

 

[Yodums]

I've seen some great overclocks with the AGOGA stepping.

 

[LandShark]

i would say both AGOGA, and AGNGA. they should do better (a little bit?) then the AGKGA. (base on what i've seen/heard only)

all of my XP chip is AGKGA. all locked. u can check my sig. for info.

good luck

 

[bobt17]

take a look at my sig

 

[Oni]

Oni, try the CPU database for more info. I would think a senior would know that!

I don't like going there. It's too full of crap.

Don't you try to make me look bad!

 

[Ghost68]

my agkga Y seems to be a prteey good overclocker i can hit 200fsb stable no prob (unlocked 8.5*200) 1700mhz chek out my sig...

 

[AudiMan]

Get an AGOIA or AGOGA.
Also check my sig.

With the AGOGA I got 1618 MHz with a .025 increase in voltage from 1466 MHz.

AGKFA's suck.
AGKGA's are good as well, but I prefer AGOGA.

I have yet to try an AGOIA.

(the reason why the XP-1700 AGKGA is oc'd the same as the AGKFA is because it is on a dual mobo with doesn't OC very well)

 

[{PMS}fishy]

I vote for AGOGA and I think that the AGOIA is only avaialble on the newer chips, you would be able to find it on a 1600+.

 

[Arkaine23]

AGKGA

Hit 1656 pretty stable, 1633 95% stable, 1617 like a rock with AGKGA. But had to unlock multiplyer to do it cuz of limited FSB from some other hardware. Took some volts to do it, too...

 

[AudiMan]

Yeah you got that shuttle mobo with built in Vmod!

Apparently the 8K3A+ (kt300 CE) from epox will let you set the Vcore to 2.2

That's gonna be an OC mobo and a half! The kt400 chipset is also coming out soon too.

That is the next mobo on my list forsure. (Epox w/kt400)

 

[AudiMan]

Do any XP-1900's come in AGOIA?

(12 X 166 = 2.0 Gig with h20 and vmod!)