Smartest Tbird for overclocking

[dougjnn]

My goal is to get to 1.2gig, or at least 1.1.

I'm interested in the smartest purchase. Most bang for the buck. I know I want a "blue core". After what speed are they nearly all blue cores? Or if I get a lower speed processor, say an 850, which is a blue core, is it likely to reach as high an overclock speed as say a 1000 blue core? How can I tell what is a blue core? Is it by serial number? Which ones to look for?

Which are good online places to buy good overclocking blue core chips -- which don't defeat the whole purpose of overclocking by charging such a premium on their overclockable chips that I would be just as well off buying say a 1100 or 1200 for a place which as a bottom pricewatch price.

I'm not interested in overclocking for the sport. I'm interested in it as a way of getting a rock solid processor running at a certain speed (1.1 gig plus), for the best price.

What do you all suggest?

 

[jsbush]

I dought it that your get 1.2ghz out of an 850mhz t-bird or even a 900mhz. You can phisicly tell if it's a blue core, cus it's blue

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Ok some 1 gig's ae green cores. If you want a blu you have to buy a 1.1 gig.

 

[dougjnn]

What's the slowest speed at which blue cores can now be found?

 

[ToxicMussels]

I have an 800MHz T-Bird with blue core!

 

[shiznut123]

i think 900mhz are a good bang for your buck

 

[DarkMajiq]

Actually, the colour of the core isn't helping much anymore, it used to be that Fab30 in Dresden used blue polish on the dies, and Fab25 in Austin used green (all high-clocked Athlons were from Dresden, and thus blue), but now they aren't always using the same polish, so there are green Athlons from Dresden and blue Durons from Austin out there. As for best bang for your buck, the 850MHz-1GHz are probably the best for that, but if you want 1.1GHz or 1.2GHz, go with a 1GHz or 1.1GHz, unless you're on a really tight budget, it will save you having to overclock a lot.