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Any guesses on whether this will be a decent chip?

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mparr1708

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Just got this in from zipzoomfly and will be testing tonight...

3200+
cbbhd 0450apfw

I've read mixed reviews abou the chips from the end of the year so we will see how it goes. I'm only looking to get to 3500+ speeds so I'm not asking for much (Couldnt get my self to drop the extra $70-80 for it.) but I will gladly take more!
 
It should easily reach 2.2, probably without a voltage boost. However, if you want to go higher, a greater proportion of the chips from the end of the year tend to crap out a little earlier. It is not a guarantee: I've seen a week 51 at 2.65 GHz (Air cooled) and I've also seen one max out at 2.3, it all depends on luck of the draw...
 
Good to hear that I should at least get 3500+ speeds. Most of the gear I bought isnt really overclocker oriented so I'm not expecting crazy results. I have been building systems for a long time and I'm not affraid to read and ask tons of questions so I think I'll be alright. For kicks and giggles I'll post the rest of my gear:

Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 NF$ mobo
ATI Radeon x800xl
2gb (4x512) corsair 3200 cas 2.5 value ram
36gb raptor + 120GB WD for storage
Antec Lanboy
Forget PSU but has decent rails (at work so cant look at the moment)

Bought the ram a while back when I got a killer deal (before I bought my mobo/proc). I understand the A64 limitations so I'm going to do some testing and just sell 1gb of it if I don't get a decent enough increase to warrant the cost.
 
Originally posted by: mparr1708
Good to hear that I should at least get 3500+ speeds. Most of the gear I bought isnt really overclocker oriented so I'm not expecting crazy results. I have been building systems for a long time and I'm not affraid to read and ask tons of questions so I think I'll be alright. For kicks and giggles I'll post the rest of my gear:

Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 NF$ mobo
ATI Radeon x800xl
2gb (4x512) corsair 3200 cas 2.5 value ram
36gb raptor + 120GB WD for storage
Antec Lanboy
Forget PSU but has decent rails (at work so cant look at the moment)

Bought the ram a while back when I got a killer deal (before I bought my mobo/proc). I understand the A64 limitations so I'm going to do some testing and just sell 1gb of it if I don't get a decent enough increase to warrant the cost.
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I'd be worried about 2T command rate performance with all your DIMM slots filled. It takes about a 20% hit in games, and who knows what else in other applications. Probably worse for much more bandwidth hungry ones.

 
Originally posted by: Avalon
Originally posted by: mparr1708
Good to hear that I should at least get 3500+ speeds. Most of the gear I bought isnt really overclocker oriented so I'm not expecting crazy results. I have been building systems for a long time and I'm not affraid to read and ask tons of questions so I think I'll be alright. For kicks and giggles I'll post the rest of my gear:

Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 NF$ mobo
ATI Radeon x800xl
2gb (4x512) corsair 3200 cas 2.5 value ram
36gb raptor + 120GB WD for storage
Antec Lanboy
Forget PSU but has decent rails (at work so cant look at the moment)

Bought the ram a while back when I got a killer deal (before I bought my mobo/proc). I understand the A64 limitations so I'm going to do some testing and just sell 1gb of it if I don't get a decent enough increase to warrant the cost.
Click to expand...

I'd be worried about 2T command rate performance with all your DIMM slots filled. It takes about a 20% hit in games, and who knows what else in other applications. Probably worse for much more bandwidth hungry ones.
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Yeah thats why I said I would test. No big deal though. I'll either sell the extra GB or put it in my wife's machine 🙂.
 
mine is a CBBHD 0450. i have gotten mine to 2.4 at stock vcore. i am currently running at 2.46 at 1.45v. havent really gotten the need to go any higher.

i hope you have just as good or better results. good luck
 
Originally posted by: someaznguy
mine is a CBBHD 0450. i have gotten mine to 2.4 at stock vcore. i am currently running at 2.46 at 1.45v. havent really gotten the need to go any higher.

i hope you have just as good or better results. good luck
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Thats encouraging! TY
 
Originally posted by: mparr1708
Good to hear that I should at least get 3500+ speeds. Most of the gear I bought isnt really overclocker oriented so I'm not expecting crazy results. I have been building systems for a long time and I'm not affraid to read and ask tons of questions so I think I'll be alright. For kicks and giggles I'll post the rest of my gear:

Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 NF$ mobo
ATI Radeon x800xl
2gb (4x512) corsair 3200 cas 2.5 value ram
36gb raptor + 120GB WD for storage
Antec Lanboy
Forget PSU but has decent rails (at work so cant look at the moment)

Bought the ram a while back when I got a killer deal (before I bought my mobo/proc). I understand the A64 limitations so I'm going to do some testing and just sell 1gb of it if I don't get a decent enough increase to warrant the cost.
Click to expand...

I would be comfortable overclocking with your setup. I've looked into the Gigabytes before b/c I was interested in firewire 800 (1394b). With a Bios update, I've heard of people doing 300htt which is more than enough to OC a Winnie, even a 3000+.
 
Put everything together last night but did not have any time to really test it. My wife made me go to her cousin?s rehearsal dinner so that kind of shot my computing plans. I will say this is my first gigabyte board and I like it. I normally work with ASUS or Abit (Plus a few shuttles and epoxs as well for good measure) and the quality if this board is right there with the best ones. Plus Gigabyte includes plenty of cables and such which is always nice. Example: 8 sata cables and 8 sata power adapters. I would expect this from a $140 mobo but not all companies do it so props to gigabyte.

I did fire it up and get into the bios. The options for over clocking are not plentiful at all. It seems like I read somewhere you have to hit a key combination to get more options in there bios so I will have to look into that. If anyone knows off the top of there head let me know. I didn?t even see an option to adjust memory speed so either I was just really tired, need that special keystroke, or I will be very disappointed in gigabyte in that regard.


EDIT: ctrl+f1 opens up a lot of options!
 
Originally posted by: mparr1708
Put everything together last night but did not have any time to really test it. My wife made me go to her cousin?s rehearsal dinner so that kind of shot my computing plans. I will say this is my first gigabyte board and I like it. I normally work with ASUS or Abit (Plus a few shuttles and epoxs as well for good measure) and the quality if this board is right there with the best ones. Plus Gigabyte includes plenty of cables and such which is always nice. Example: 8 sata cables and 8 sata power adapters. I would expect this from a $140 mobo but not all companies do it so props to gigabyte.

I did fire it up and get into the bios. The options for over clocking are not plentiful at all. It seems like I read somewhere you have to hit a key combination to get more options in there bios so I will have to look into that. If anyone knows off the top of there head let me know. I didn?t even see an option to adjust memory speed so either I was just really tired, need that special keystroke, or I will be very disappointed in gigabyte in that regard.


EDIT: ctrl+f1 opens up a lot of options!
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ctr+f1 to protect noobs 😉

I've had problem after problem with Gigabyte's old Via based motherboards for the Athlon XP. But once they started using the NForce chipsets, they've become so so much better. 🙂
 
mparr1708:

Any luck on your OC'ing your current setup? I have almost the identical setup as you do and wondered how you've done. I can do 25% over with no problem, but wondered how much further you got.

 
My 0450 CBBHD hits 2.7 on stock voltage and is Prime stable with 1.6V. Too bad your mobo wont allow you to get the max out of it.
 
I was able to hit 2.6ghz prime stable with no issues. My temp was at 50-51c under load. I left the vcore set to default but I think my board was adjusting the voltage on its own. I've been working a ton lately so I havent had much time to test further. Overall I am very pleased witht he setup as it is very fast for the money.
 
wow a CBBHD cpu from a vendor? thought they were all out.

congrats cuz the CBBID ones aren't as high clocking as the older CBBHD. 🙂
 
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