new Barton's locked! ? http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showth...hreadid=244237 Quote:
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yup, its a fact all of a sudden everybody will want to have older weeks, those hw vendors must be going crazy, first the picky people want the newest, now they want old stuff :D "the only way to increase your chances is to try to get a pre week 39 Barton..." |
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hmmm a very big bummer :( |
sth that was to be expected... they want to force the higher cpu's upon the enthusiast market |
i think there going intel's way :( i thought the A64 will have a 940 pins later on, like intel with their P4 in the beginning. so new cpu require a new mobo the cheapest A64 in belgium is around €500, not every enthusiast is willing to spend that kind of money on a cpu :S and still is almost €100 more expesive then the top P4 cpu |
Need help, I need a new CPU, I was thinking about barton but... All the ones we have are week 44, so ze're probably not going to get any newer ones. As far as I know, my mobo will go up to 200FSB, leading to a nice 2200MHz OC, and 205 is a no-go. My current main rig CPU does 2200MAX and it's just a 1800+. Is it worth it, or should I look for something else (2100+ ulocked)? Might the FSB be able te reach higher speeds with a barton, or won't it as I expect? |
I thought only the xp2500+ was locked? If so, go for a XP2600+ barton. |
We don't have those. |
Then go for a XP2800+ :) |
want it cheap. Probably better off running a barton 2500+ @ 200MHz fsb. A 2600+ might be an option, but theymight be locked by now too. but I can't check what batch we have. |
does the speedstrip method work? |
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What is locked on the lastest barton? Multiplayer or FSB or both? |
Multiplayer only FSB is controlled by the Motherbord |
how do you determine which week you have? |
the black sticker on one side: the second line, first set of numbers. xxyy xx = year yy = week |
so i have to take my fan off to see that? damn that sucks, considering i just put it on!!! |
so ok i found that mine is locked, but I raise the fsb and it ups my cpu. What sense does that make? so does that clasify as oc'ing? |
yea. your CPU speed is determined but the FSB multiplied by the (here comes the DUH part) multiplier. If you raise either you overclock your CPU. The point is that an overclocked FSB has more benifits then just an overclocked CPU. That's why you first put your FSB at it's maximum using a low multi. And then raise the multi to the CPU's limits. With a locked barton you can't do this. You'll just have to hope that your max FSB is close to max CPU with the default multi. |
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