AMD Duron Boot Up @ 1 Ghz !!! (with Soldering)

[DutchBoss]

The Dutch Hardware site Tweakers.Net (known from their destructing cows...the DPC) have broken an record. They got an Duron 600 at 1000 mhz with soldering ! An absolute world record

Check http://www.tweakers.net/plan.dsp?PlanID=22 for more information

 

[Caitiff]

http://www.tweakers.net/plan.dsp?PlanID=22

Linkified for the meek of heart.

 

[Muerto]

Holy mother of God:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q

 

[goog40]

[drool]

 

[Train]

world record?

Ive heard of people getting 566 celerons to go over a gig, whats the big deal? I must have seen this big of gain on several different sites.

 

[ItsmeDPC]

I was one of the guys OC-ing this DURON

We had the _most locked_ version of the DURON, with BP_FID, FID en VID locked.

By "destroying" the socket, we were capable to remove some pins (FID's pins), and by soldering on the processor itself we could override the golden bridges. Last thing to do was voltage tweaking, where we had two options.
1. Disconnect the 5 pins so we could override all of the core-voltage settings. This way you can set the core-voltage by 0.025 increments.
2. Override 3 pins, so we could set the core-voltage by 0.05 increments. (This was enough in our vision, so we chose this one)

As you may have seen on the site we did boot at 1Ghz, but because we used a Golden orb, we couldn't get it over 950Mhz (stable that is). At this time Jasper is busy using some sort of water-cooling to get the temp. down and to get over the 950Mhz we have right now.

The biggest differences with the Chip Anand has used are these:
1. Fully locked
2. 600 instead of 700Mhz
Furthermore we've used a different motherboard because we weren't able to get a hand on a nicer Motherboard in a shop (not within a few days that is).
Last but not least - We had to buy everything we used, so the costs were a big aspect in OC-ing this DURON to 950Mhz.

/me out (c), me happy too!

Oh and yes we are the first to OC a fully locked version of the DURON, so there's hope for all of you guys who did not get their hands on an unlocked one or on a semi-locked one!

 

[Train]

it was't even stable?

man quit posting this garbage, come back when you have some real news.

 

[ItsmeDPC]

Right now it is stable at 900Mhz, and we're working on some extra cooling (our water-cooler is fronzen ) so we can get it stable at the highest possible FSB and Multiplier.

We've had it stable at 840Mhz, that's multiplier 4 with EV6 at 110.
The boot works nice, but the problem is just the heat so it get's unstable.

Hey and ehr well, it's still the first fully locked DURON unlocked anyway. Anand had the luck of getting a DURON without the newest full-lock. (Well, we're just lockpickers )

--- Flame mode ---
Hey ehr sut up, I haven't seen you do anything alike! }>
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Itmse! Out (c)

[EDIT] - The DURON 600@950 performs like showed on the link, I will repeat it for the lazy guys (and girls)
CPU Dhrystone - 2984MIPS
FPU Whetstone - 1310MFLOPS

Versus the Athlon CLassic 600 at 1676MIPS/833MFLOPS
That is an increase of 78% (MIPS)/57%. Keep in mind though that this is on an AMD750 mainboard.

Skjuze me, but this seems quite a nice performance!

 

[DaddyG]

Train,

Whats your problem !! They never said stable at 1ghz just that the system booted. Who cares about Celeries running at 1 gig ?? They don't perform worth a damn when overclocked (Cache is too small). The Duron is the chip that we ar all looking at, because of price and performance, and IMHO all overclocking results benefit the masses.
Keep up the good work DutchBoss and Co.

 

[Ulysses]

DaddyG is right, Train.

A Cele @ 1000 is about the same as a Duron or CuMine @ 750-800. The clock speed looks good but the performance is not. Read AnandTech's reviews and weep. No matter what you do to a Cele you can't change its puny L2 cache and anemic system bus speed.

Real men use P3's or Tbirds - boys play with their Cele's.

 

[Insane3D]

Yeah Train, what's your problem. They were just posting their results of overclocking a Duron. I am not sure, but the last time
I looked, that is what this forum is for. Maybe you should start your own forum titled "All Celery...ooops..All Celeron All The Time" and stay over there. Some of us are interested in the Duron, and we DO like to hear any info on overclocking them, if you don't, then don't even read the thread....

 

[UnaClocker]

I'd like to see some pictures of what all had to be done to the CPU, and possibly the motherboard.. Last I heard, a "fully locked" duron just needed a conductive pen on the L1 bridges, if that's not the case, I'd like to see what the current trick is. Also, which motherboard was used, if not the FIC, then maybe it was more the motherboard's problem, than the CPU's...

 

[TobiO]

Right. A few pictures and an instruction of what has to be done and how would be great. Is there a visible difference between locked, unlocked and "full-locked" Durons in the first place?
I bought a Duron 600 and now I don´t know which mainboard suits best. The dip switches on the ASUS A7V board (if there) don´t seem to get the job done. Anyone knows if there will be a mainboard available in the next weeks which is really able to change multipliers (Abit KT7 perhaps?). Or do I have to manipulate my CPU/Mainboard in any case?
Overclocking rocks, but if I have to buy high precision tools first and still have the risk to destroy my brand new CPU/mainboard, this seems like a really bad deal to me. Overclocking the celeron via bus speed was much simpler...
So, if anybody is able to lighten up my confusion...

 

[Train]

I dont even own any celerons, i oww all PIII's and athlons, i was just saying that i didnt think it was that big a deal, and in some ways like DutchBoss was just trying to get more hits by posting a link to tweakers.net

 

[UnaClocker]

Welp, I got a Duron 600 (week 27), it's almost stable at 900, but Prime95 won't run.. 950 it won't even post.. Tho I think it might be my power supply, so I plan to swap that out soon..