Dothan engineering sample

[Tseng]

Now I have a chance to buy a Dothan 2.1GHz engineering sample for only $280. Compare with the retail price, this is a real bargain.

My question is besides its "non-mass production" status, should I worry about the reliability? This CPU is for my laptop, I don't intend to o/c.

 

[AristoV300]

Not ocing kind of defeats the purpose of getting a ES chip. At that price though hell yeah you should get it.

 

[stevty2889]

Thats an excelent deal, I'd go for it.

 

[fAlCoNNiAn]

knock yourself out. good deal

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
Not ocing kind of defeats the purpose of getting a ES chip. At that price though hell yeah you should get it.

Regular retail Dothans are multiplier unlocked anyway, so I'm not sure what advantage that ES would have except that it's priced at about 40% of retail.

 

[Shimmishim]

ES are usually multiplier unlocked to some extent. i know you don't get the full mult access but partial within a range.

 

[Leper Messiah]

for that price, hell ya!

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter

Originally posted by: AristoV300
Not ocing kind of defeats the purpose of getting a ES chip. At that price though hell yeah you should get it.

Regular retail Dothans are multiplier unlocked anyway, so I'm not sure what advantage that ES would have except that it's priced at about 40% of retail.

doesn't the ES's OC better then the regular retailer ones, or is it only the multi thats 'so to say' unlocked??

 

[stevty2889]

Actualy a lot of times the ES chips don't overclock as well as the retail chips, they are ES's because they are test chips, but having unlocked multipliers does help and give more options. My ES doesn't overclock quite as well as my retail chips do.

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
ES are usually multiplier unlocked to some extent. i know you don't get the full mult access but partial within a range.

My M 775 (2.0GHz Dothan) is multiplier adjustable from 6 to 20. That's about as unlocked as I've ever seen.

 

[Zap]

Dothans/Banias are multiplier unlocked between 6x and default. You can't go over default. This is kinda like Athlon 64.