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Is Newegg shipping marginial 1.8A's??

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mschell

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OK, in my past experience, most Intel 1.8A CPU's can do 133MHz FBS (2.4GHz) with a little added voltage. Add .5 to 1v and they do 2.6GHz quite stable. A few weeks ago I was building an inexpensive system for a friend who wanted 2.4GHz and the 1.8A is the natural choice to save some $$. Ordered it from Newegg and while the processor did 133MHz (FBS)@1.6v stable it was strangly crapping out above 135MHz. Upping the voltage 1v got it to 140 but my personal 1.6a purchased 6 months ago runs 148MHz (2.35GHz at 1.6.

You can't be lucky every time when oc'ing CPU's so I wrote it off as bad luck. A week later I ordered another 1.8A for my personal system and it won't even do 133MHz! 130MHz takes 1.725v to get stability. This voltage overheats the stock Intel cooler so I purchased and installed a Vantec Aeroflow on the recomendation of the Newegg cheering club (don't belive one word on those "reviews"). Some deaf clown said it was a quiet cooler - yea, about as quiet as a 1500W hair drier on medium speed but the thing did knock 10F from the full load CPU test and allow Prime to run for 24hrs or more.
I can't stand the noise so I need to get a 1.8 that runs 2.4GHz at 1.6v. Is Newegg sitting on a bad batch of CPU's? What other vendor(s) are selling Intel CPU's that allow moderate overclocks. Any input would be appreciated.
My latest CPU is a SL68Q 10/30/02 pack date.
Strangly enough, the CPU orded 2 weeks prior is a SL63X with a pack date of 12/03/02.
 
The real question is:

Does it run at 1800mhz??? Oh, it does? What are you whining about again?

Newegg will guarantee your overclock, it'll just cost you a hundred more.

Chiz
 
Weird is all I can say.

Look at the one in my sig from MWave. 1.6(non-A) does 144fsb easily. But flakes out anything above that on stock intel cooling. I am too lazy at the moment to put in my Alpha 8942... but even if I did I dont know how much further, if any it would go.

Ahh yes, the pack date was 10/30/02 also.
 
i think it may be just bad luck.. i just ordered my 1.8a a week ago and it does 133fsb at 1.47 volts (my P4T-E undervolts...)
 
I ordered my 1.8A, S-spec SL63X just after Christmas from newegg and it ONLY runs at 1.8GHz, 400 fsb... everything else in the system seems fine - i think its the newegg CPUs. I'll order from somewhere else next time.

With newegg's return policy, Im sure they get a lot of overclocked and burned up CPUs, and they have to replace them for free. Wouldnt it save them lots of money to sell CPUs that wont overclock? hummm...
 
Originally posted by: neo4s
I ordered my 1.8A, S-spec SL63X just after Christmas from newegg and it ONLY runs at 1.8GHz, 400 fsb... everything else in the system seems fine - i think its the newegg CPUs. I'll order from somewhere else next time.

With newegg's return policy, Im sure they get a lot of overclocked and burned up CPUs, and they have to replace them for free. Wouldnt it save them lots of money to sell CPUs that wont overclock? hummm...
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No, cause people will just RMA 'em till they get one that does 😉

 
You should try starting with lower RAM speed, e.g. the slowest timings. It's not always the proc!
 
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