Has anyone heard of a AXP stepping called AGOGA?

[Mardeth]

Becouse thats the one Im have. Any information of the quality, OC and other that kind of stuff would be great.

 

[KingofFah]

The Athlon XP AGOGA is a very good stepping (most people refer to it and AGOIA as the best overclockers, others will add in the AROIA). I have never had an AGOGA stepping XP, but it seems pretty good from what I have read on this forum about XP oc'ing.
Someone Correct me or update me if I am wrong, from what I have read the AGOIA and AGOGA are about equal and AROIA is a little under.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

yep, I have an AGOGA stepping 1600+ (and an AGOIA Y) the AGOGA goes up to approx. 1.6 GHz stable but definetly runs hotter than my AGOIA

 

[Mardeth]

Ok thanks for the information. Let see how high 1800+ will OC .

 

[KingofFah]

icecool83, only +200 mhz stable? How much does your AGOIA go up? What RAM and mobo do you have? My PC craps out at 175 FSB, but I think it is the RAM (Generic, runs 166 rock steady though).
Mardeth, the 1800+ will overclock less than a 1600+ (the higher multipliers making it impossible to push your FSB up too high). You might want to unlock your 1800 and set the multiplier to a few levels lower, then push the FSB as high as you can in increments of maybe 5 mhz. If you are just going max CPU speed, I guess it would not make much of a difference. If you overclocked your 1800 (1.533GHZ) at the stock multiplier to 1.794GHZ (FSB 156) and overclocked your 1800 with 10.5 multiplier to 1.795 (171FSB), the ladder would be more powerful than the former. I do not know what kind of system you have or what goals you have set for your overclocking. If you are going to overclock a lot, you probably want to unlock it.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

my AGOIA runs at 1800 MHz stable with 1.85Vcore but I keep it at 1750MHz since it can do that with only 1.775Vcore and thus runs cooler.
My AGOGA up to 1600 MHz stable and this was pretty much it's limit because when I switched the CPU to the AGOIA, I was immediately able to go much higher.

Heat was probably the limiting factor though since it would run very hot (65C under load) even with my Alpha PAL8045 + 32CFM fan combo. Just for comparison, my AGOIA runs about 55C under load at 1750 MHz!
Either way, it's living a happy life now at stock speed in my secondary box with an ECS K7S5A

 

[MatthewF01]

Yes I too have an Athlon XP 1800+ AGOGA, agoga-steppers unite!

I also would say to drop the multiplier to 10, 10.5 and overclock the bus as much as possible. Its not worth giving up bus speed to get a higher cpu speed right off the bat. Id drop the multiplier enough to where you are running at AT LEAST 166, giving a nice 333mhz bus. Pick up some Corsair 3000 or 3200 and have a grand ol' time.

Im gonna do all this as soon as I order my Chaintech 7VJL. Gonna be great! Ive finally educated myself in overclocking and such enough to where Ive outgrown my K7S5A Big boy all growed up...

 

[mrman3k]

Very good OC from what I have heard.