Athlon XP 2000+ for only $136!!!

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thenew3

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A buddy of mine picked up a Athlon XP 1700+ from newegg last week. What arrived was a 1700+ with a AGOGA core.

He went ahead and unlocked it with rear window defogger repair kit and powered up it at 133x12.5x or 1666mhz or a XP 2000+ at default voltage.

Ran prime95 for 48 hours straight and Sandra burn-in for another 48 hours straight and the thing is stable as a rock.

We did not try FSB overclocking, just multiplier overclocking.

After this experience, he went and ordered 5 more XP 1700+ from newegg, waiting for them to arrive hoping they are also AGOGA cores.

Just though I would share this with everyone here.
 
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thenew3

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You just need some clear nail polish, rear window defogger repair paint, and some tape.

Whole process takes about 30 minutes if you've done it before or about 1 hour if its your first time.

I've unlocked 5 XP's thus far, and my buddy has unlocked well over 20 XP's.

 
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Egrimm

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Killrose, I saw a site with a oc databse, where people claimed to co'ed their XPs to more than 2Ghz (not 2000+!!!), cannot remember the adress and my latest Windows-crash ate the bookmark.
The highest results in 3dMark 2001 were also run on Athlons of around 2Ghz, with oc'ed graphics-cards too. They all reached such speeds by super-cooling, peltiers on cpu and gpu.
 
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Killrose

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I like to overclock, but I hate fan noise. I guess a water cooled system would be quite? Is this so?
 
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WA261

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title of your thread is a misleading.....
check the data base at overclockers.com....that is just an average overclock for an xp1700
 
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Duvie

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< Crap I can Get that from my t-bird LoL >

That is at default voltage...most would have had to boost it up to 1.85volts or greater...

With lower voltage should be heat should be less of a factor...What kind of temp???


I wonder if this is the signs that since the 2000+xp 's had arrived that amd was getting better yields...It always seems that chips of a certain size always oc better later when cpu is like 3 to 4 versions ahead...ie remember the 1ghz axia's that many were hitting 1.4ghz plus with them while the 1.4ghz were only getting to like 1.55ghz...
 
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Can someone explain what AGOGA means? I ordered a 1700+ from newegg as well. How can I check to see if my has this AGOGA core? Thanks guys.
Scoob
 
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Jerboy

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<< Can someone explain what AGOGA means? I ordered a 1700+ from newegg as well. How can I check to see if my has this AGOGA core? Thanks guys.
Scoob >>



Its called steppings. Sort of like lot # if you will. Take a look at my Athlon 1.4GHz, see where it says "AYHJA"? I think that gives you an idea.
 
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<< Can someone explain what AGOGA means? I ordered a 1700+ from newegg as well. How can I check to see if my has this AGOGA core? Thanks guys.
Scoob >>



Its called steppings. Sort of like lot # if you will. Take a look at my Athlon 1.4GHz, see where it says "AYHJA"? I think that gives you an idea. >>



Then head on over to the FAQs and read about exactly what a stepping is.
 
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thenew3

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He got the 5 1700+ he ordered. They are all AGOGA core and all overclock to 2000+ (1.67ghz) but I don't think he has done extensive testing on these since he just got them yesterday.

Looks like newegg just dropped their price from $136 to $122! even better deal!
 
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Duvie

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What would your buddy charge to unlock one and sell them????

You are getting total stability at default 1.75v??? Just raised the multiplier from 11 to 12.5???

So all I need is a board that offers multiplier adjustments???

Let me know, please...
 
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Jerboy

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<< A buddy of mine picked up a Athlon XP 1700+ from newegg last week. What arrived was a 1700+ with a AGOGA core.

He went ahead and unlocked it with rear window defogger repair kit and powered up it at 133x12.5x or 1666mhz or a XP 2000+ at default voltage.

Ran prime95 for 48 hours straight and Sandra burn-in for another 48 hours straight and the thing is stable as a rock.

We did not try FSB overclocking, just multiplier overclocking.

After this experience, he went and ordered 5 more XP 1700+ from newegg, waiting for them to arrive hoping they are also AGOGA cores.

Just though I would share this with everyone here. >>



hmmm cool. Part of me screaming wanting to try this new thing and other part of me saying this is so pointless just to get 181MHz increase(using birdy 1.4 @1.485). If I buy an XP1700+ and it doesn't work after doing this, I'd be somewhat pissed for sure.


I think I'll try out my way of unlocking it :D

these items and tools comes to my mind:

small point tweezers

white crayon

rear window defogger thingy

strands of wire pulled from a braided wire

1.0mm solder

soldering iron

hydrochloric acid

modeler's super thin super glue

tin foil

1,1,1 TCE.

method 1:

clean off the connection with hydrochloric acid

smear the whole L1 area with crayon

wipe off crayon from connection point with 1,1,1 TCE

join the connections with defogger kit


method 2:

clean off the connection with acid

fill gaps with super glue

clean off glue remnants from connection with acetone

tin all the points using soldering iron

solder a strand of copper pulled from braided wire to jump each connection

test and cover the whole area with epoxy to protect it



I think I'll try method 2 :D


It'd be nice to have some dead CPU's to practice on.



If I could get it to work, could I continue to use my Coolermaster fan? I don't see why not since retail XP2000+ comes with this.


 
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Jerboy

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<< Damn I just received xp1700 from newegg but it was AGKGA, I really want AGOGA. Can I RMA it? >>




There's a 15% restocking fee on returns. No exchanges unless defective. As far as I remember this is Newegg's policy.


They aren't obligated to give you an XP1700+ overclocable to XP2000+ speed and thats just the risk you take.

 
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ilikemovie

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<< They aren't obligated to give you an XP1700+ overclocable to XP2000+ speed and thats just the risk you take >>



Yup, you are absolutely right...well...will see how far i can push the AGKGA.

Thanks Jerboy.
 
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just unlocked my XP 1700 today i had to up the core voltage to 1.87 and teh mem voltage to 2.7 to get mine to do 12x133 on my EpoX 8KHA+ mobo and stay stable. guess i have the other core. for some reason i dont have a 12.5x multiplier. and before i changed teh mem voltage 13 wouldent even post had to clear the bios to get it to reboot
 
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