Old School Athlon, can anyone help me with these numbers.

[Buddha Bart]

Ok, a friend of mine wanted to upgrade his athlon box, but its an old slotA one, and I think he'd be better of OC'ing it. Its a 550, and I remember there being a batch of those that went pretty far.
Here's the markings.

AMDK7550MTR51B C
219934011153

This makes it a .25 micron right? What about the week/batch number? Plus, isn't there a website with a database I can check to see approx how far this will go?

bart

 

[xtreme2k]

most older athlon K7 are more Cache limiting I think

however since it is a .25micron core
it could be core limiting as well


try overclockers.com look in their database

edit: typo

 

[medic]

It's been awhile but it looks like a .25micron Week 34/99 550 with most likely a 550-650 core.
Would probably go 700 and even higher with some nice cooling.

Some results here:

 

[Kitros]

A few pdf notes... for easy access 😉

A friend of mine had one do around ~700 for a year stabily, then sold it. Not sure on the cooling, but it made MUCH noise!

 

[Buddha Bart]

ok thanks.
Looks like I shouldnt get my hopes up for anything over 700.

bart

 

[Quickfingerz]

I'd be very surprised if you got to even 700 mhz. I had a week 36 proc and it couldn't get to 650 reliably.

 

[Rigoletto]

sorry, question answered by the PDF file. Thankyou.😀
Still don't know what week or micron process or where made was my Athlon. Still hunting around.

 

[Sugadaddy]

-nm-

 

[SDTom]

That is a 1999 - week 34 - .25 chip. The first of the higher bin 600 and 650 cores started showing up in larger numbers around week 36 - 37. Around week 42 is where the cooler running hybrid .25 cores started showing up. Being one of the original .25 cores, it will run warm.
It should most likely just have the stock 3.6 ns cache on it. @ the stock 1/2 L2 divisor, you should be able to get 650 - 700 with good cooling.

Tom