Schematic for Athlon Goldfinger

[H.A.R.M]

Greetings to all,

Looking at building a Goldfinger board for my Athlons over the next couple of weekends. I have the schematic from Tom's Hardware and was wondering if this was a good schematic to use. If someone has a better one, please let me know. Thanks-

PS What has everyone been getting when overclocking their Athlon "Classics" for 550MHz and 650MHz.

 

[johncar]

H.A.R.M.,
Tom's circuits are a poor design, some resistors dissipate almost .5 watts, and there is a labeling error, think A18 and A19 are reversed.
Hate to say it but it's terrible...and he also uses 2 spst switches to simulate spdt, recipe for operator error/disaster.

http://members.nbci.com/candjac/index.htm GFD article, safe tested circuits. Also http://www.bukkorosu.com, projects, has lots of stuff on how to build your own...lots of pics...try the miniMAX, no switches, just 3 banks of sockets into which you install resistors to set HI/LOs
John C.

 

[bolomite]

My 650 hit 800, very stable. At 850, a little shaky. My CPU is a year 2000, week 15, 0.18 micron Athlon classic.