Week 30 XP2500... 1st off assembly line? Uber heatsink?

[Jeff7181]

I have pictures... but I need someone to host them...
I bought this CPU for a computer I built for my aunt... I was surprised when I saw the heatsink had a chunk of copper screwed to the base of the heatsink! Then I checked out the stepping, and I think this is the very first CPU of it's batch... if I'm reading everything correctly. If someone would host the pictures for me, that would be great... otherwise I supposed I can put them on Angelfire or somethin.
A note about the heatsink... it performs VERY well and is VERY quiet. Idle, it stays around 36 C, started Prime 95, in about 2 minutes it was up to 50 C and stayed there for 19 hours with no errors. That's at stock speeds though... but still... that's pretty impressive for a retail heatsink. Guess that chunk of copper is good =)

 

[MDE]

That's the same heatsink I got with my 2500. If you want it to perform even better, take off the copper plate and scrape the grey thermal pad out of there and put your compound of choice in its place.

 

[Corporate Thug]

i got the same HSF with a week 26

 

[Evdawg]

where do i see which week it is?

btw, i have the same hsf as well.... nice copper chunk on the bottum.
Do any of you guys read MaxiumumPC? they had the dream machine this year, and of course the Lean machine (best under 1k) they had an xp2500. Oc'd it with retail hsf to 2.14. The limitation was due to their ram i think, pc 2700. Anyways, so yea they used the stock hsf and did their OC'ing with it, pretty impressive.

 

[4x4expy]

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[DAPUNISHER]

Free pics hosting for Anandtech users neff on!

 

[Jeff7181]

Pics... thanks DAPUNISHER

 

[DAPUNISHER]

No problemo Jeff Sure do wish you could overclock that badboy and see how it does!

 

[Jeff7181]

Oh I did... just to see =) It does 166x12.5 on default voltage... ran Prime 95 for 13 hours without an error... only got to 53C with that retail "copper chunk" heatsink. I decided to go higher, so I took some PC3200 out of mine and put it in there, set it to 200x11 and ran it for 6 hours on default voltage, no errors... so I went to 200x11.5 and it errored after 3 minutes. Gave it more voltage, still errored. Makes me wonder how stable some people's processors are who run them over 2.2 Ghz... cause I've had 3 now that do 2.2 with no problem, but don't go any higher. Two of which did it on default voltage... and wouldn't stay stable at 2.3 no matter how much voltage I gave them.

 

[Jeff7181]

Oh, by the way, since my aunt's not a power user, I put it back to stock, and I'm undervolting to try to keep temps even lower... testing for stability right now at 1.5 volts.

 

[Nebor]

My 2500+ works fine at 200x11, but in order to get it up to 200x11.5, I have to bump voltage up to 1.65, and to get to 200x12, I have to bump to 1.75.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Nebor
My 2500+ works fine at 200x11, but in order to get it up to 200x11.5, I have to bump voltage up to 1.65, and to get to 200x12, I have to bump to 1.75.

1.65 is the default voltage... so you're not bumping it up to 1.65 unless your board undervolts.

BTW... my aunt's is now completing it's 6th hour of Prime 95 at the stock speed, with voltage set to 1.4, and actually around 1.37

 

[MDE]

See how high that thing will go max... maybe you'll want to swap it out for yours...

 

[Jeff7181]

2.2 Ghz is max... I set it to 202x11 and it crashed right when I started Prime 95... mine's a bit better than that... I can get mine to 2.3 Ghz on 1.75 volts and it will run Prime 95 for 2 hours before it crashes. Seems as though the new packaging they're using for these has put a damper on overclocking.