AMD Overclocking Forecast

[Fricardo]

Currently the Mobile Athlon's (2400+, 2500+ and 2600+) are obviously the best overclockers from the AMD side of things. This has been the case for a couple months now. In the opinion of those of you who are experienced members of the overclocking community, is it likely to change soon? A few questions:

1. Does anyone know if there are any plans to release a faster Moblile Athlon? If so, when?

2. Other chips that were at one time excellent, *cough* desktop 2500+ *cough*, lost their promise after newer revisions and steppings were released. Is this also likely to happen to the XP-M? I know that it can't be locked, but do you think the performance may suffer in later steppings? Has anyone noticed a trend in the overclockability of these processors?

3. In short, is now a good time to invest in an overclocking CPU even if I can't wring that much OCing perf from it now due to lack of cash for upgrading other components?

Thanks for the wisdom 🙂

 

[Duvie]

With lack of funds I don't think there is a better choice then the mobile 2400-2600+ chips.....I think it can possible be crowned the best all time overclocker bang for the buck...The 1.6a would be close but many of us were plunking down 150-200 to get them and then oc them to 2.7ghz range.


What I am waiting for is a more oc friendly A64 platform.....A pci/agp lock and a 2800-3000+ A64 pushing towards 2.6-2.7ghz....That could be very sweet....Would defintely wait for the new socket and hopefully 3ghz will be in the future....Intel better get into gear....

 

[Dman877]

Current mobiles have nothing on the axia tbirds, remember hitting 1.5 from 1.0 with .05 volt bump? 🙂. Then there's the celery 300a... I mean a 24/2500+ to 2.5/2.6 ghz is a 30 - 40% oc, some of those celerons did 100% and the tbirds did 50%. I don't know about bang-for-buck though, I forget how the pricing was in those days.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Duvie
With lack of funds I don't think there is a better choice then the mobile 2400-2600+ chips.....I think it can possible be crowned the best all time overclocker bang for the buck...The 1.6a would be close but many of us were plunking down 150-200 to get them and then oc them to 2.7ghz range.


What I am waiting for is a more oc friendly A64 platform.....A pci/agp lock and a 2800-3000+ A64 pushing towards 2.6-2.7ghz....That could be very sweet....Would defintely wait for the new socket and hopefully 3ghz will be in the future....Intel better get into gear....

Lack of funds? AMD MOBLIE the best choice period if your an overclocker or else why do you overclock, why read the reviews, just go buy aleinware/voodoo FX-53/EE system and be done with it? Why not? Got lack of funds? Don't think so, Bang for the buck is why we build our own and moreover why we overclock. And even then, build-your-owns with lack of smarts one will pay 50%-100% more for same performance. 😉 I.E. I got thread running showing complete AMD moblie system for $400 hanging with $600-$800 OC P4/A64 systems right here and will hang with $3000 Fx-53/EE systems from butique vendors. Lack of funds or just good research you decide🙂 I know where I stand...a fool and his money are easily parted🙂


Edit
For the OP, I think prescott will scale up to 5Ghz by beginnig next year with Overclockers...AMD's in big trouble on every front IMO. HT, Mhz, Chipsets, extensions etc... The are loosing the Mhz race and thier chips simply can't keep ramming the speeds up as much as Intel can. If you don't buy a AMD Mobile/mature and stable NF2, the current grand champion of price performance, I'd say to wait for the better prescotts... as long as they reduce thier prices for performance parity.

 

[Fricardo]

Thanks guys. I was wondering along the lines of the future of the XP-M. How likely is it that the chip would be revised and become less overclockable in newer steppings? Does this sort of thing often happen?