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Athlon xp 2500 mobile

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I was looking at the 35 watt XP 2400 Mobile. From what I've read it is an even better (lower voltage) OC'er than the standard 45 watt XP 2500 Mobile - Almost certain to hit 12 x 200 at 1.65v with air cooling.

NE has the 35W 2400 for a couple of bucks more than the 45W 2500.
 
yes, it's a great cpu still. have one running 3200+ for about a year now. sure, it's a little slower than the latest and greatest from either camp, but it's still very competetive - especially for the price.
 
if youre gonnna upgrade go to a 939 90nm A64. prob the 3000. but still, i'm 99% certain you dont need to upgrade. if you hang on a year, you can put some serious dual core, whacky stuff in there.
 
whorush, I can't even hit 3200 with my 2500 barton so be happy 😛 im at 2800 it's just that the cpu is garbage and is not stable at 3200

 
huh. ok. that sucks.

what are you running it at, 9.5*200? what voltage? what mobo? do you have 400MHz ram? run a prime95 torture test and see what temps you get.

is it a mobile barton or a standard barton? i have the standard. wish i got the mobile.

also, you can have a good HSF and still not do it right. for instance, the HSF might not be on right. did you use thermal greese? what kind did you use? how much did you use?

there are really a lot of variables, and i think its unlikely that its the chip.

post all that info and we'll try to help u out.
 

My cpu is athlon xp 2500+ (not mobile), ram is Golden Dragon Geil 400Mhz pc3200 dual ch. running at 2.6 voltage (default) timing at SPD
cpu 200x10.5 (2100) 1.75 voltage, with an air cooling: SLK 800 and a volcano fan at medium speed.

At 200x11 it is JUST not stable. I've gone from 1.70 voltage to 1.9, I've also tryed 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 for my ram and it still didn't work ALSO tryed ram timing at 2.5-3-4-8, 2-3-3-6, 2-3-3-7, 2-3-3-9 and 2-3-3-11
and still nothing.

Can you say that I'm one unlucky SOB or not?
 
Originally posted by: bde

My cpu is athlon xp 2500+ (not mobile), ram is Golden Dragon Geil 400Mhz pc3200 dual ch. running at 2.6 voltage (default) timing at SPD
cpu 200x10.5 (2100) 1.75 voltage, with an air cooling: SLK 800 and a volcano fan at medium speed.

At 200x11 it is JUST not stable. I've gone from 1.70 voltage to 1.9, I've also tryed 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 for my ram and it still didn't work ALSO tryed ram timing at 2.5-3-4-8, 2-3-3-6, 2-3-3-7, 2-3-3-9 and 2-3-3-11
and still nothing.

Can you say that I'm one unlucky SOB or not?
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Stop calling yourself an SOB! and get rid of that garbage CPU and buy the mobile already.
 
sure the mobile is better, but its not a garbage chip. 99% of the modern world including myself easily get 3200 out of it.

so it is stable at 2100? thats not sooo bad.

what are your cpu temps? clock it at the highest stable speed, (2100????) run a prime95 stress test and check your temps.

are you using any thermal greese?
 
If it doesn't work for me I consider it garbage simply, I'm sorry 🙁

at 2100 yes it's stable I ran prime95 and it ran for 17 hours, with a max temp of 56 or so, So I figured it must be stable.
and no I don't use any thermal greese :/
 
ok so you ran it and then you checked the output file and there were no errors? all the tests passed?

what was the highest temp? to find out, run it for 30 mins and then check it while its still running.

what kind of mobo do you have.
 
Originally posted by: bde
If it doesn't work for me I consider it garbage simply, I'm sorry 🙁

at 2100 yes it's stable I ran prime95 and it ran for 17 hours, with a max temp of 56 or so, So I figured it must be stable.
and no I don't use any thermal greese :/
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You are joking about the thermal grease right?😕
 
Toro 45, bde doesn't know what he's talking about. He as the thermalright thermal greese that came with the SLK-800 he bought, I know because I installed his PC. 😉

 
whorush, all tests passed and no errors no warnings it ran for 17 hours and the temp was 56-58C max
 
I've had no problems hitting 2.5 with my 2500 mobile but I leave it at 3200 speeds because it's all I need. The mobile chips are best OC'ers I've ever used. I even have mine on an Asus A7V600 which is a board not really known for it's OC ability.

Now that being said I wouldn't upgrade from another 2500 just to get a mobile. Save the money and use it for an upgrade later.
 
ok, that temp isn't toooooooooo bad. i'd like to keep it lower, but i'm picky. i think you should put some artic silver 5 on chip. that should get you a few degrees, possibly more than that. try that, if you get it down enough, try bumping it up to 11.
 
For what its worth ,when I switched from Silicon HS compound to Artic silver it dropped CPU temps by about 3-4C.

Megaworks
I assume he has a couple of case fans?

Originally posted by: Zendeath
I was looking at the 35 watt XP 2400 Mobile. From what I've read it is an even better (lower voltage) OC'er than the standard 45 watt XP 2500 Mobile - Almost certain to hit 12 x 200 at 1.65v with air cooling.

NE has the 35W 2400 for a couple of bucks more than the 45W 2500.
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I take it you didn't read my early post? ,the XPM2400 is the exact same CPU I had 1 st had ,as far as overclocking goes it was a total POS.The best I could get it stable at on this rig was 2.13GHz @1.65v.
I couldn't up the vcore as it would just crash! :disgust:
On another rig 2.2GHz @1.775v+ might of been stable.

I'm not saying their all like that but beware!
Thankfully the company I bought it from are quite happy to take it back🙂
To confirm we are talking about the same CPU model here's its numbers

AXMH2400FQQ4C
PQYHA 0406MPMW
(I don't think the other numbers are relevant?)

Anyway ,I now have an XPM 2500 @2.55GHz @1.66v!:Q😀 ,I've yet to find its limit.I shall be doing that very soon.
 
assimilator, thats pretty impressive. what are your temps with that?

as far as bde goes, he doesnt have any thermal greese at all. what do you guys think?
 
If you read megaworks post you'll see he does have thermal paste afterall.............. besides it would of gone *POW* by now !😉

Temps atm running SETI ,28C case ,51C CPU (via internal thermal diode).Running Pr95 it gets about another 2-3C hotter.

I reckon I should be able to hit 2.6GHz easily 😀
What do ya reckon?

Place your bets!😉
 
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