Blue Core 800 Tbird

[MiniThug]

I was thinking of getting a 800mhz blue cored Tbird. Anyone have this particular chip? How well does it do overclocking? Ive looked at the CPU database at overclockers.com but those are not defined by aluminum or copper. What potential speed do you think I could reach with a copper 800 at max voltage (1.85) on an Abit KT7?

 

[Dark4ng3l]

just try it it's diferent for every chip no one can respond to that precisely. With some luck and good cooling I think 1.1ghz would be possible.

 

[resinboy]

I literally got my green core 800 running a couple of hours ago. A gig was no sweat at 1.8 volts: bumped it to max, 1.85 and no boot into Windows. This is w/retail HSF . I have a Taisol coming in Tuesday, maybe more then

 

[MiniThug]

Anyone else have any thoughts?

 

[sojin]

To be honest, I don't think the blue-core fairy tale is anywhere near reality. I have bluish/purple core T-bird 700 and 750, and they are not showing any advantage over their greenish counterpart. at core 1.825 w/ alpha Pal6035 HS coupled with delta 7200 rpm 38 cfm fan, I don't feel I am paid off at the mere 900 mhz yield while suffering from the noise.
If I knew then what I know now, i will wait a couple months and buy a 1.1Ghz ... or wait long for a k-8 meaty-birdie ...
go figure...

 

[MikeHelvey]

I'm running 1000 with retail hsf. I drop it down to 900 on occasion as I seem to get periodic crashes. I think it would do better with a better solution than the pencil trick. Better cooling would help since I get up to 60c.