AGOIA

[bigboxes]

So, here I was going down memory lane. Our friend Red Squirrel started a thread about an old Athlon box he was working on. I kept thinking of all the processors I had bought throughout the years. @thebestMAX told of a 1700 Tbred that o/c well. That got me to thinking of my 1600+ Palomino chip. My 1.2Ghz Tbird was fine (did the pencil trick and o/c it to 1.4Ghz), but I heard of the new Athlon XP that had just came out. Everyone on AT was talking about the stepping that was o/c so well. So, here it is 15 years later and I was trying to remember the stepping. AGOIA. I punched that in Google and there it was! I can't believe I remembered that. Peeps were getting o/c of ~25% out of the box. It was 1.4Ghz at stock and I got it to 1.8Ghz. Boxes was happy.

Anyways, it got me to thinking. What other famous steppings are there where you can just mention the stepping and everyone knows the chip? I have a i7 920 that had a D0 stepping that was desirable for o/c. Any others?

 

[footballrunner800]

G0 stepping Q6600

 

[bigboxes]

G0 stepping Q6600

I built a Q6600 for a customer, but was still using my X2 4400+. I held out until Intel came out with Nehalem.

 

[VirtualLarry]

SL2W8. Thanks to an article on overclockers.com (waaaaay back in the day), we learned that Intel had somehow re-binned a batch of their 450Mhz PII CPUs as 300Mhz, pending a new heatsink/backplate design for their updated 450Mhz versions. (Which did ship with a different heatsink/backplate than the lower-clocked PII CPUs.)

They did not disappoint. I had one, the larger L2 cache size helped with multitasking.

 

[Elixer]

Just need a

and we will be all set!

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I had to double check that I wasn't in a necro thread

 

[bigboxes]

Just need a

and we will be all set!

The pencil trick didn't work on these chips. You had to use something more conductive than graphite. I bought a conductive ink pen just to unlock this cpu.

 

[Elixer]

The pencil trick didn't work on these chips. You had to use something more conductive than graphite. I bought a conductive ink pen just to unlock this cpu.

Yeah, I know, I used that windshield de-icer patch kit for it, but showing a bottle of that would have been lame. heh

 

[bigboxes]

Yeah, I know, I used that windshield de-icer patch kit for it, but showing a bottle of that would have been lame. heh

LOL

 

[Burpo]

Xeon L5639, B1 stepping.. 2.13Ghz hex-core max'd out at 4.26Ghz..

 

[Avalon]

I've got some old overclocking notes on the Athlon 64 esque Opteron 144, plus a couple notes on some Core 2 E8400s I had overclocked a while back.

Opteron 144 CAB2E 0604 EPAW
1800mhz @ 200x9 1.36v - 35C/40C/74C
2160mhz @ 240x9 1.36v - 35C/43C/74C
2430mhz @ 270x9 1.36v - 36C/44C/74C
2565mhz @ 285x9 1.36v - 36C/45C/74C
2655mhz @ 295x9 1.38v - 36C/46C/74C
2700mhz @ 300x9 1.39v - 37C/48C/74C
2745mhz @ 305x9 1.46v - 38C/51C/74C
2817mhz @ 313x9 1.52v - 38C/53C/74C

E8400 SLAPL Q745A576
3000Mhz @ 333x9 1.16v - (30/32C)/(44/44C)/77F (667Mhz memory)
3420Mhz @ 380x9 1.06v - (29/31C)/(40/40C)/78F (760Mhz memory)
3600Mhz @ 401x9 1.10v - (30/31C)/(41/41C)/78F (802Mhz memory)
3700Mhz @ 411x9 1.12v - (30/31C)/(44/44C)/78F (822Mhz memory)
3800Mhz @ 422x9 1.15v - (30/31C)/(45/45C)/78F (844Mhz memory)
3900Mhz @ 433x9 1.21v - (31/32C)/(49/49C)/77F (866Mhz memory)
4005Mhz @ 445x9 1.26v - (34/34C)/(55/55C)/76F (890Mhz memory)

E8400 SLAPL Q746A381
2900Mhz @ 363x8 1.15v - (27/26C)/(37/36C)/73F (726Mhz memory)
3420Mhz @ 380x9 1.15v - (30/29C)/(42/41C)/75F (760Mhz memory)
3609Mhz @ 401x9 1.20v - (31/30C)/(43/42C)/75F (802Mhz memory)
3700Mhz @ 411x9 1.23V - (32/31C)/(46/46C)/75F (822Mhz memory)
3800Mhz @ 422x9 1.26V - (33/32C)/(48/48C)/75F (844Mhz memory)
3900Mhz @ 433x9 1.31v - (34/34C)/(52/52C)/73F (866Mhz memory)

If I recall, the CAB2E stepping was fairly poor for Opterons, I believe the CABWE stepping was where it was at. The SLAPL E8400 stepping was supposed to be quite good in its day.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I recently recycled all my old pc hardware.
The only thing I couldn't let go of was the CPUs and memory.
Too many memories to let go of the old XP's and they don't take up much space.
My favorite was the barton (being the final victory of socket A).

 

[Hitman928]

Still have this that I won at an AMD revealing the mhz myth event.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Man, I remember the day AMD sent this bad boy over as a review sample

AXP 2000+ - AGOGA

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow, this must be the AGOIA love-in. Everybody had one back in the day, it seems. I had an Athlon XP 1800+, that I overclocked to 2000+, nearly 2200+, as measured by my MSI KT400 board. Was a pretty solid board, as least as far as Via chipsets went. I don't know if mine was an AGOIA though.

Back then, even attaching a CPU heatsink, was an act fraught with danger. Crushed cores, not making good contact, scraping your mobo with the screwdriver if it slipped out of that damn clip. You noobs with the LGA lever and pushpins have it easy today.

(Not that you personally are a noob, not saying that.)

 

[Chiropteran]

I was running a dual 1800MP rig on a Tyan Tiger board back in those days. I don't think I ever overclocked it, but that was a sweet machine for the time, even though hardly any software supported multiple CPUs.