Whatever happened to overclocking Mobile AMD chips?

[Kaido]

I was poking around Newegg and came across the $310 Mobile 4000+, stock clocked at 2.6ghz (desktop version is 2.4). Seems everyone is hitting 3ghz pretty easily. Why the loss of interest in this? I did a quick google and there are only a few hits on OCing this chip. Is everyone going dual core now or what?

 

[zizo]

because that's socket 754 I guess!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: zizo
because that's socket 754 I guess!

You can still build a pretty nice system based on a 754 chip for less than $1,500. I just priced this out at $1430 on Newegg:

Windows XP Professional with SP2 (OEM)
Antec Sonata with 450w power supply
Gigabyte GA-K8U motherboard
2.6ghz AMD Mobile 4000+ OC'd to 3ghz
Thermaltake Big Typhoon HSF
2gb Crucial DDR400 ram
BFG 7800gs AGP card
400gb 7200rpm SATA Seagate hard drive
BenQ DVD burner

That's a pretty nice system by today's standards and cheap too (compared to 939 X2's and whatnot).

 

[Fox5]

The mobile's aren't beastly overclockers like the low voltage mobiles xps back in the day, they're basically desktop chips now and not cherry-picked.
Oh, and the turions are even worse, they get lower power consumption by using slower transistors which just can't clock as high.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Fox5
The mobile's aren't beastly overclockers like the low voltage mobiles xps back in the day, they're basically desktop chips now and not cherry-picked.
Oh, and the turions are even worse, they get lower power consumption by using slower transistors which just can't clock as high.

Ah, I see.

 

[Lonyo]

Also: Socket 939 Opterons.