I got a Costa Rica from Newegg today. Anyone have a Costa Rica and get it up to 2.4? Any signs of one being better than the other? (like 300a was)
Edit:My markings are:
SL668
3149A709
Pack date 1/26/02
Are we concerned about "week" information? Guess I don't know where it is.
Still putting this together, not going to fire it up til this weekend.
P4b266-C
512 Mushkin 2100 2-3-3 ram from Newegg, (came in a plain parts plastic bag w no anti-static)
Update Saturday morning (yawn),2-16-02, here is a early report of what I think I can say. I have read all and understood most of the posts up to now, correct me if I got it wrong.
I think that it's clear from the reports in this thread, that:
1. The early conclusions are based on reports of mostly 1.6a chips
2. Costa Rica chips are not better OC'ers than Malay
3. Costa Rica chips have a good as chance (100%?) of doing 133fsb at default voltage as Malays
4. More Malay chips in OC'ers hands than CR, so more successful 2.4 reports coming in for Malay's
5. More reports have come in for A726 CR chips than A709 CR chips
6. What MB you use, is a factor in how high you get your CR chip, but no more than for Malay's
It is not clear yet:
1. What, if anything, is a determining FPO/batch or week for CR chips that stand out as a better CR OC'er
2. If the A726 chips are better than the A709 chips
What I think:
1. Edit I wouldn't tell you which chip to get At this stage in the reports including those in other threads, more Malay's have hit 2.4 than CR's
2. As many CR chips easily could turn out to hit 2.4+ like Malay, as more results come in, we are not even seeing 1/100 of the chips of either country that will eventually be OC'ed
3. Only one report of CR chip doing 2.4 and a Prime95 survivor (I could be wrong)
4. Four? have hit 2.3 and reported it being stable
5. People who have CR chips, (like me) shouldn't feel like they are screwed, we got what we expected, a chip that can do 2.1Gig and maybe more. A Malay with flaky ram isn't going to OC as fast as a CR with better ram. More Malay chips out there mean more sucessful reports for them.
So give us your CR details and results, we know that here, NFS_PU doesn't stand for Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed, it stands for Need for Speed - Pentium(IV) Unleashed
Edit:My markings are:
SL668
3149A709
Pack date 1/26/02
Are we concerned about "week" information? Guess I don't know where it is.
Still putting this together, not going to fire it up til this weekend.
P4b266-C
512 Mushkin 2100 2-3-3 ram from Newegg, (came in a plain parts plastic bag w no anti-static)
Update Saturday morning (yawn),2-16-02, here is a early report of what I think I can say. I have read all and understood most of the posts up to now, correct me if I got it wrong.
I think that it's clear from the reports in this thread, that:
1. The early conclusions are based on reports of mostly 1.6a chips
2. Costa Rica chips are not better OC'ers than Malay
3. Costa Rica chips have a good as chance (100%?) of doing 133fsb at default voltage as Malays
4. More Malay chips in OC'ers hands than CR, so more successful 2.4 reports coming in for Malay's
5. More reports have come in for A726 CR chips than A709 CR chips
6. What MB you use, is a factor in how high you get your CR chip, but no more than for Malay's
It is not clear yet:
1. What, if anything, is a determining FPO/batch or week for CR chips that stand out as a better CR OC'er
2. If the A726 chips are better than the A709 chips
What I think:
1. Edit I wouldn't tell you which chip to get At this stage in the reports including those in other threads, more Malay's have hit 2.4 than CR's
2. As many CR chips easily could turn out to hit 2.4+ like Malay, as more results come in, we are not even seeing 1/100 of the chips of either country that will eventually be OC'ed
3. Only one report of CR chip doing 2.4 and a Prime95 survivor (I could be wrong)
4. Four? have hit 2.3 and reported it being stable
5. People who have CR chips, (like me) shouldn't feel like they are screwed, we got what we expected, a chip that can do 2.1Gig and maybe more. A Malay with flaky ram isn't going to OC as fast as a CR with better ram. More Malay chips out there mean more sucessful reports for them.
So give us your CR details and results, we know that here, NFS_PU doesn't stand for Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed, it stands for Need for Speed - Pentium(IV) Unleashed
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