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AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Review 6 Weeks Before Release

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chips-to-beat-up-your-neighbor dept.

Mathew Solnik writes: "Tom's Hardware has a review of the AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 6 weeks prior to its official release. This review shows how to unlock the multiplier on the AthlonXP and how to reach AthlonXP 2000+ speeds easily." Note that by doing so, you are voiding any warranty you may have started with, risk blowing up your eyeballs, etc; do proceed with caution.

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  1. Re:thanks for the warning... by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Software can be re-installed, but dead hardware is dead.

    If Slashdot doesn't print those warnings, could it be interpreted that they are encouraging behaviour that may physically destroy your system (and not "merely" cause downtime)?

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  2. Other hw sites have already done this. by staili · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So I don't see why this had to be posted at here. If you're interested about overclocking you computer you also prolly read those hw sites.

  3. the good toms hardware by NeoTomba · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tom's Hardware has been getting a lot of bad press these days. Thier burning Athlon videos caused a lot of controversy, and regulars at some other tech sites (*cough* Anandtech *cough*) have a strong dislike for Tom's work.

    But this article just goes to show you why Tom's Hardware is the best hardware review site out there, just like it has always been. Over the years, Tom has written some of the best articles for hardware enthusiasts and has pushed "overclocking", a term which was once mysterious, into one of the big issues of modern computing. Motherboards are now being designed specifically for overclocking, and this has lead to huge increases in performance. Most people forget that Tom's Hardware has been one of the most influential sites as far as this is concerned.

    It's good to see what is undesputably the best current article on technology. I hope even those who hate Tom's Hardware will see the light. No other tech site has anywhere near the ability to do stuff like this.

    -NeoTomba

    1. Re:the good toms hardware by XBL · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Overclocking was cooler back in the olden days. Taking a 300 MHz Celeron to 550 MHz, or whatever was much easier and more productive.

      Looking at the benchmarks, doing this is NOT worth the time and effort.

      Tom has the time and money to dink around with these types of things. It might be worth it to him, but this article is likely worthless to 99.9% of his readers, simply because they aren't going to do it.

      Compare this with overclocking a Celeron, I bet over 50% of the readers gave it a try. Writing those articles were actually relevant. I'm sorry to say that this one isn't.

    2. Re:the good toms hardware by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 3, Insightful

      and has pushed "overclocking", a term which was once mysterious, into one of the big issues of modern computing

      No offense intended, but it's only a big issue among the script kiddies of the computing world. Everyone else just thinks "Hmmm...I could get a 10% higher clock speed, for a total system throughput increase of 2%, and there's the chance I'll either destroy and expensive processor or gain hard to track system stability problems. Or I could just let well alone. No contest."

  4. Will people buy it? by xdangavinx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the down turn in the economy, and there not being a great deal of software that non computer savy people use that require processors of such speed do people think that there will be a great demand for this chip in the consumer market?

  5. Re:Connect 2 contacts. by CtrlPhreak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Easy? The amd engineers made it much harder this time. This is 100x harder to do than just connect them with a standard graphite pencil, like the T-Birds. AMD does not want you overclocking their chips, why do you think they cut the L1 bridges in the first place

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  6. What about the FBS? by 10Ghz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would have liked more results with overclocked FBS. If I got XP, I propably wouldn't bother to connect the L1-bridges just to gain few % of additional performance. I would increase the FSB. Easier, and it gives you more performance.

    I think XP is just begging for more FSB. Cranking it up to say 300Mhz (2x150MHz), would increase the actual MHz of the CPU, and it would nicely increase you bandwidth (both memory and FSB).

    Of course, I would much rather have the Clawhammer with it's 800MHz FSB...

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  7. Very, Very, VERY old news... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Overclockers.com had the information out a couple of days after the XP came out. This article came out on 19 October with essentially the same information as Tom's. Since then, at Overclockers, there have been other articles dealing with other approaches to reconnecting the bridges and how the laser cuts have changed.

    I don't know why people think that Tom's is a particularly good source anymore. These days they really seem to be slow off the mark...

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