New T-Birds

[JonJon]

what's the deal with the new tbirds? are they simply a regular tbird with a dropped multiplier and higher FSB???? if that was the case, then ev6 is not the overclocking problem but kt133 was...please shed some light on this for me

 

[JonJon]

anyone know?

 

[Jumpem]

The current 1.2Ghz is a 12x multiplier and 100 FSB.
The new (266DDR)1.2Ghz is a 9x multiplier and 133 FSB.
I've heard that the newer versions will not work on KT133 boards.

 

[_Silk_]

There is nothing 'new' with the latest announced TBirds. They are simply set for a lower multiplier, that?s all.

The chipset and board design is what was preventing over clocking past 110Mhz DDR. Its been known for sometime that the ev6 bus is designed to be able to run up to 200Mhz DDR.

However, just because the ev6 bus is designed to handle that speed, doesn?t mean it?s easy to implement it. Whenever you raise the frequency, you need to maintain a cleaner signal. That would mean better voltage regulators, more capacitors, more ground traces, shorter traces...

The KT133 probably didn't support the timing values needed for such high frequencies, and mobo manufactures didn't bother to over design the boards for cleaner signals.

 

[JonJon]

thanx for shedding some light on this for me