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Old 8th March 2004, 10:00   #1
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Has anyone played with one of these before?

It seems to be an excellent bang for the buck: it's a barton with 256kb disabled, and I haven't found anyone yet who didn't manage to enable the extra 256kb.

I bought an XP2400+ Thorton, so after unlocking the l2 you've got a 2000mhz barton.

The bad thing is: only 133fsb and most lickely locked if week >40. Positive thing is 2000mhz barton power for 62 euro. This would make it a great chip if you've got a 166fsb limited mobo, or crappy ram. : )
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You first need a WORKING mainboard before you can play with it

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not nice Piotke.
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The Thorton seems to be a good buy.

Currently running 160*15 (2400mhz) with a Tt aero 7 at medium speed (60 degrees idle) and 1.69v, no stability issues yet. : )
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that's better then my 2500+ mobile at those volts
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Yeah, if it where unlocked it 'd be a killer chip. The Chaintech doesn't work well above 166fsb, so it doesn't really bother me that i can't change the mp. It's still a great buy for fsb limited mobo's.
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ah that's right, my CPU is unlocked, didn't really notice it though

last 5-6 AMD setups I had were all unlocked..
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I've let it run prime overnight. No problem with silent aircooling running 2400mhz at 1.63v. With H2O or phasechange one might even get a decent fsb with this proc. : )
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