FX-55 still the way to go?

On Sun, 29 May 2005 05:21:53 GMT, Wes Newell
wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2005 03:58:10 +0000, Nobody wrote:

What about the San Diego 90nm A64 4000+...is that locked or unlocked?

All Athlon 64's are multiplier locked on the high end, but it doesn't
matter. A 4000+ will have a multiplier of 12x200 for a default speed of
2400MHz. Raise the FSB clock to 233 and then you have 12x233 for 2800MHz
if you think it'll run that fast.

It and the memory sub-systems, the side-effect of clock-locking.
Better make sure that your peripherals such as SATA drives and AGP
run at the "66MHz" fixed clock frequency if you overclock the FSB.

Probably not, so chose a number in
between, say 217 for about 2600MHz. Now you've got just a little better
than an FX/57.


......actually FX-55. FX-57 if it ever sees the light of day ( and not
swamped by X2 silicon-demand ) is expected to be 2.8 or 3.0GHz

BTW, the FX-55 San Diego, 90nm SSE3 is now available at Newegg.
Only a mere $981...... Highly likely to overclock nicely. Runs a lot
cooler than the 130nm version.

For me, I'll keep my fingers wrapped very tightly around my upgrade
money until the dual-core X2 shows up.

John Lewis


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(John Lewis) wrote in news:42996ca0.11188228
@news.verizon.net:

For me, I'll keep my fingers wrapped very tightly around my upgrade
money until the dual-core X2 shows up.


I'm with you on that.