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I picked up a couple of them from Central Computers when they were on sale at $36 each.
Why doesn't AMD acknowledge making these chips on amdcompare.com? The lowest ones for AM2 are the 3000+ which is 1.6GHz with 256k cache while the 2800+ is 1.6GHz with 128k cache. This is not some obscure OEM only chip like the socket 939 Semprons found in HP machines. These are retail PIBs.
At 330MHz HTT the chip runs at 2.64GHz. Using +0.05v extra vcore it failed CPU burn-in after about 15 minutes. That seems fairly promising - perhaps a touch more vcore or a couple MHz less may make for full stability. That would make this chip an awesome bang/buck value with a full GHz overclock. I can't see another $36 CPU performing as well. Wait, there ARE no other $36 CPUs.
Why doesn't AMD acknowledge making these chips on amdcompare.com? The lowest ones for AM2 are the 3000+ which is 1.6GHz with 256k cache while the 2800+ is 1.6GHz with 128k cache. This is not some obscure OEM only chip like the socket 939 Semprons found in HP machines. These are retail PIBs.
At 330MHz HTT the chip runs at 2.64GHz. Using +0.05v extra vcore it failed CPU burn-in after about 15 minutes. That seems fairly promising - perhaps a touch more vcore or a couple MHz less may make for full stability. That would make this chip an awesome bang/buck value with a full GHz overclock. I can't see another $36 CPU performing as well. Wait, there ARE no other $36 CPUs.