mobile bartons

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

stepping is the little modifications they do to the cores trying to refine them.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i just jolted some new life into my mobile barton setup yesterday, got some nice TCCD ram and bumped down the timings. 440mhz@ 2-2-2-3

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My only Barton-M was a dud. Got a 2400+ that didn't have the 45w or 35w listing about 8 months ago and it peaked @3200+ stable 1.75v but it wouldn't go higher stable even with 1.85v. I had a week 11 '02 Barton 2500+ that did 2.43ghz, and T-Bred Bs 2100+@2.4ghz and 2400+@2.35ghz all on less than 1.85v so you can imagine how bummed I was to get the holy grail of sktA CPUs just to get what amounted to substandard results.

I just bought a NF7-S V2 from FS/FT and I have a 35W 2200+ sitting here so hopefully it will manage 2.5ghz+ on 1.85v or less.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
My only Barton-M was a dud. Got a 2400+ that didn't have the 45w or 35w listing about 8 months ago and it peaked @3200+ stable 1.75v but it wouldn't go higher stable even with 1.85v. I had a week 11 '02 Barton 2500+ that did 2.43ghz, and T-Bred Bs 2100+@2.4ghz and 2400+@2.35ghz all on less than 1.85v so you can imagine how bummed I was to get the holly grail of sktA CPUs just to get what amounted to substandard results.

I just bought a NF7-S V2 from FS/FT and I have a 35W 2200+ sitting here so hopefully it will manage 2.5ghz+ on 1.85v or less.

You should have LMK.. I had both a mobile barton and NF7-S FS in forum. 2500Mhz on default desktop vcore prime95 stable!!! 2700Mhz on 1.8...

Course I was selling at full retail price with those exceptional pieces. Mobo hit 240Mhz on dafault bios..

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Well I got stuck with this 2200+ as I didn't buy it for myself, and I'm stuck with the KW7 I mentioned to you as well.

The KW7 is the worst excuse for an Abit enthusiast board I have ever worked with. All the overclocking functions are borked even with a modded bios and mobile chip. It runs great stock but that is useless to me with this chip. I read it doesn't even have a working AGP/PCI lock either, and to top it off they haven't even released a bios update since the board came out :|

I thought it would be good to see how the Via offering stacks up to nF2 but this Abit isn't even in the same league for overclockability. I must admit the feature set and price are nice though. Anywho looks like I'm going to eat the 15% restock&return shipping to send it back to ZZF so if anyone needs a good stock dual channel sktA board they should have this on the cheap as open box soon

 

[pray4mojo]

So does anyone else out there have a chip with A stepping? Mine chip is and i haven't really been able to stabilize it at 12x200 on a NF7-S. Highest vcore I've tried is 1.65 so far...should I go higher?

 

[BlueWeasel]

My 2600+ mobile is a AQYHA stepping and it's currently running at 11.5x215 @ 1.80v.

Considering they are identical to the desktop Bartons, which have a stock voltage of 1.65, I have no problems running it 1.75v or 1.80v if you have adequate cooling.

Bump that puppy up to 1.70v or 1.75v and you'll probably be fine at 12x200.

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo
So does anyone else out there have a chip with A stepping? Mine chip is and i haven't really been able to stabilize it at 12x200 on a NF7-S. Highest vcore I've tried is 1.65 so far...should I go higher?

my 35w 2400+ needed 1.725v to get 12X200 and my 2600+ needed 1.75v to get 12x200

you're fine as long as temps are good at these volts, heck even 1.85 is safe as long as temps are good

 

[proxopspete]

And if you have faster memory, try lowering the multiplier...
I got 2000+ Mobile, and am running @ 215 x 10! When I get less lazy, I will try something like 230 x 9.5 (or even 240 x 9!!) or something... see sig.