Overclocking the slot TBird

[Athlex]

Has anyone out there been able to test the overclockability of the OEM Slot A TBird CPUs?

It's striking how stable the Duron and Athlon socket CPUs are so far, but I'm curious to see if the Slot A Thunderbird is as good with the tried-and-true GFD, especially since the L2 cache isn't really an issue. Any thoughts?

atx

 

[Ulysses]

See:
http:// [url]http://www.athlonoc.com/slottbird_1.htm [/url]

 

[redpriest_]

Thunderbird 700mhz with a 700 mhz core @ 900 mhz:

http://www.wpi.edu/~argfenix/Athlon900.jpg

Thunderbird 700mhz with a 700 mhz core @ 850 mhz:

http://www.wpi.edu/~argfenix/Athlon850.jpg

Not perfectly stable at 900 mhz, but that's because of my shoddy cooling setup. Once I get a better cooler, I should be able to hit 900 mhz and beyond without any problems.

 

[Athlex]

Thanks for the info guys. I've heard good things about the slot TBirds and the Asus K7M, so I'm thinking of upgrading from my Athlon 500. I've had trouble overclocking it because it's so hot (.25 micron) and big heatsinks are blocked by the K7M's bad power connector placement.

atx

 

[Athlex]

Redpriest,
What voltage did you have that TBird @ 900MHz at?

atx

 

[redpriest_]

2.0 volts 🙂

My thunderbird is very stubborn at anything beyond 850 mhz.