Great news for Athlon XP unlocking

[Deviant]

You may know that unlocking an Athlon XP2200+ was harder than unlocking other XP's because it doesn't use Multipliers from 5-12.5 but instead uses multipliers of 13 and up.

Well now someone has found out how to unlock it by conecting only one bridge, and no need to fill any pits.

read here:
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100600

[I.R]

Cool..... but I don't think I'll get a new CPU till I go 64 ;)

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Useful to know but I will wait next the Bartons are out at least before I upgrade.

[CrazySurfaNZ]

Wicked stuff, but im still waiting for hammer, serial ata, QDR and the rest of it :D

[KingJackal]

I'm sorry - for those of you still sober, read the above three replies, cos they go something like this:

Overclocker #1
Sounds great! But I'm waiting for X CPU!

Overclocker #2
Sounds great! But I'm waiting for Y CPU!

Overclocker #3
Sounds great! But I'm waiting for Z CPU!

lol @ j00 all :D :p

[Bravo]

Would have been interesting if the initial unlocking and testing was done on XS.org.

MrIcee actually found only the middle L3 bridge is required to unlock.

Also, Its Thoroughbred, not Athlon XP ;) :D

[Volodkovich]

"Forgive me, im a bit of an arsehole most times. "

i would have to agree.....

if u live in aussie, why are u here when u could be over at OCAU???

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Bravo

Also, Its Thoroughbred, not Athlon XP ;) :D

Hi Bravo, I can see you are going to make a great impression in these forums with your attitude. I can see you getting banned unless you shape up.

Just to correct you again:
Athlon XP= Palimino, Thoroughbred, and almost certainly Barton and Clawhammer, although the last will probably be called Athlon XP+.

[Bravo]

Originally posted by Deviant


Hi Bravo, I can see you are going to make a great impression in these forums with your attitude. I can see you getting banned unless you shape up.

Just to correct you again:
Athlon XP= Palimino, Thoroughbred, and almost certainly Barton and Clawhammer, although the last will probably be called Athlon XP+.

Check the stepping genius :) AXDA, not XP :p

And yes, i am a bit of an arsehole. I have no patience with people who assume their way is best, or their information or what they think is correct.

You'll have to forgive me.

The reason im here is because of Tojja, signed up for his chipset block thread, and for the simple reason OCAU is actually a tad slow (its faster to come here).

I actually thought people might be interested in reading what i have to say, and to ignore the tone.

Need to use these faces more :rolleyes: :D

[p01s0n_p1e]

hmmm
perhaps its better to post only positive stuff in these forums then?
you may want to say something like

"oh my god you are such a #$@&head for that idea user x go back home and try shoving your idea up your ass"

but its better to say it like this

"hey, theres an original idea- perhaps this part of it would not work so well though"


i would know as ive posted some very retarded ideas (anyone remember my connect 4 style waterblock?) and no one has said anything as direct or harsh as to what you posted.


point made

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Bravo


Check the stepping genius :) AXDA, not XP :p

And yes, i am a bit of an arsehole. I have no patience with people who assume their way is best, or their information or what they think is correct.




Athlon XP=Thoroughbred (am I missing something, or are you an aussie?)

I'm not talking about steppings, here did you get this stepping from? If it's not a XP, then are you trying to say it's a Tbird? Explain some more, cause I'm just stupid.

[Bravo]

Originally posted by Deviant



Athlon XP=Thoroughbred (am I missing something, or are you an aussie?)

I'm not talking about steppings, here did you get this stepping from? If it's not a XP, then are you trying to say it's a Tbird? Explain some more, cause I'm just stupid.

The product code governs the processors name.

AT = Athlon
XP = Athlon XP
AXDA = Tbred

its straight from the AMD.com web page :)

[whetu]

*moderators hand comes down from the clouds and slaps everyone*

back on topic guys... stop whinging about silly specifics when the thread is about something completely different.

OR it gets locked

period.

capiche?

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Bravo


The product code governs the processors name.

AT = Athlon
XP = Athlon XP
AXDA = Tbred

its straight from the AMD.com web page :)

Please forgive me, the WWW.AMD.COM website I can see talk about TBred being an Athlon XP processor:
http://athlonxp.amd.com/pressInformation/2200PressRelease.jsp

Even Palamino was released in a XP 2200+ flavour, with a multiplier of 13.5, ie greater than 13, that means it can be unlocked by the same one bridge method to get back on track.

Try a little more diplomacy. Respect is earn't through the value of your posts, not the number of your posts in this forum. If it were a numbers game, you would be closing in on absolute zero.

Be nice, and smile.

have you ever hear about the seven secrets to sucessful people, well here's one of them "seek first to understand, then to be understood"

or another saying, "treat others as you would have them treat you"

[Bravo]

My mistake :)

[Iblis]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
I needed that laugh, thx guys!

[_N_]

hehe, <sits back and enjoys the fun>

NERD WAR.....

:D :D

[Wibber]

*smacks bravo with a wet fish*
*waves cpu in his face*
what core is this???? yes! yes! Tbred!, what is it called? lets recap!
Athlon XP 2200+

oh wait someone allready said this..... :mad: I leave my machine for 15 minutes and what happens! someone out whores me!

well even if its only useful for Tbreds I'm happy, Iv'e been wating sooooooo long :( I almost bought a 2200+ last week just cos I can't be arsed waiting anymore

[Bravo]

I should point this out:

The Palomino core is being terminated at 2200+, The Tbred also begins at 2200+.

Its a very fine, but distinct line ;)

[Humantuckshop]

Originally posted by Bravo

And yes, i am a bit of an arsehole. I have no patience with people who assume their way is best, or their information or what they think is correct.




So, from that statement we can assume that you have no patience with yourself?

[whetu]

*cracks knuckles*

IT STOPS HERE, BOYS :mad:

[Ragnor]

The TBred does no begin @ PR 2200 ... it's completely replacing the whole line... you can Tbred's from at least 1700 upwards just now.

[Stove]

Where from Ragnor?
I'm waiting for the Tbreds to hit the lower clocked XPs before I go for an 1800, but wasn't aware that the Tbreds were available in the lower clocked cpus yet. . . in NZ anyways

[mird-OC]

Originally posted by Stove
Where from Ragnor?
I'm waiting for the Tbreds to hit the lower clocked XPs before I go for an 1800, but wasn't aware that the Tbreds were available in the lower clocked cpus yet. . . in NZ anyways
i accidently found myself at a NZ site the other day which listed something along the lines of:

"Athlon XP 1700+ CPU (266MHz FSB, Thoroughbred Core, 0.13 micron)"

plus all other XP processors up to 2200+ in the same manner... the strange thing tho was the price - like $120 more than the Palomino processors they had listed on the same page.

it doesn't matter anyway coz i can't remember the address :P

[Grrr!!]

Weren't the TBred processors going to be exactly the same price as the Palamino's. I can't imagine athlon sales going up if they increase the price of the TBred.

[Volodkovich]

they should be cheaper - they can fit a hell of alot more dies to a silicon waffer of the same size :) So hopefully, in a while we should see there prices drop quite a bit.

[Grrr!!]

Prices have actually fallen quite a bit. Hopefully they continue, but that'd kind of cancel out the Duron line.

[Volodkovich]

hmmm, well for wat i have heard, the tbred will be the last 32bit top of the line amd processor, coz apparently the barton is going down to the duron line, and by then we will have the hammer. So i have no idea what they are doing with the durons at the moment, maybe the will start jacking up the mhz on them...as now u can get 1.8ghz celerons that are quite a bit faster than durons in most benches. However, i am surpirsed how well the duron competes against the new celeron seeming its clocked at a much lower mhz...but then this happened with the axps and the p4's aswell.

[Iblis]

Originally posted by Volodkovich
hmmm, well for wat i have heard, the tbred will be the last 32bit top of the line amd processor, coz apparently the barton is going down to the duron line, and by then we will have the hammer. So i have no idea what they are doing with the durons at the moment, maybe the will start jacking up the mhz on them...as now u can get 1.8ghz celerons that are quite a bit faster than durons in most benches. However, i am surpirsed how well the duron competes against the new celeron seeming its clocked at a much lower mhz...but then this happened with the axps and the p4's aswell.
The AthlonXP is to compete with the Celerons now.

[Volodkovich]

hmm...not really - a AXP 1600+ would pretty much whoop a 1.8gfhz celeron...that is if the celeron wasnt on Rambus.

[Iblis]

Originally posted by Volodkovich
hmm...not really - a AXP 1600+ would pretty much whoop a 1.8gfhz celeron...that is if the celeron wasnt on Rambus.
I don't really understand that too well... but, seriously, the AthlonXP will be the new Duron, I wouldn't be surprised if the 1.3 Duron is the last one, as I think AMD is counting on the hammer to be the P4's new menace. it'll be interesting to see how it pans out though.

[utopian201]

"*cracks knuckles*

IT STOPS HERE, BOYS "

har har if it continued, sounds like wheu woulda mak some1 his b17ch

hehe

i dont know if hammer is gonna make a huge difference, since only at the end of 2004 will it be able to make use of DDR-II, since the memory controller is built in, while P4 is on 533 bus

so the fisrt few (3800+ to about 4200+?) will still b on 133 bus.....i think...........

[Humantuckshop]

Originally posted by utopian201
har har if it continued, sounds like wheu woulda mak some1 his b17ch




With spelling errors like that, I think you'll be whetu's b*tch. ;)

[Iblis]

Originally posted by utopian201
so the fisrt few (3800+ to about 4200+?) will still b on 133 bus.....i think...........
Not to pick too hard but, with a completely new core architecture, do you really think it's gonna be on a 133 FSB?!?!?! I really don't see that myself.

[utopian201]

whoops, what i meant to say was that only the hammers that come out in late 2004 will support DDR-II

[Volodkovich]

i dont think it'll be that long til DDR-II will be out...apparently there are workking samples now

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Iblis

Not to pick too hard but, with a completely new core architecture, do you really think it's gonna be on a 133 FSB?!?!?! I really don't see that myself.

I thought Barton might come with a 166 FSB, but it's not, so I expect Hammer will come with 166, and maybe 6 months later with a 200 MHz FSB for DDRII.

[Volodkovich]

heh...200fsb = 800mhz DDR-II!!!

[Iblis]

Originally posted by Deviant


I thought Barton might come with a 166 FSB, but it's not, so I expect Hammer will come with 166, and maybe 6 months later with a 200 MHz FSB for DDRII.
I certainly hope so Dev ;) :cool:

[utopian201]

yeh im not sure about this, but DDR-II comes out quite soon, its just that the first hammers wont have the appropriate memory controller for them

so really, there isnt much point in getting the first few iterations of hammer, only to have it get outdated in 6months time, when amd gives you something you should have recieved in the first place