1800+ Thorougbred - NOW $59!! shipped - Now $67 argg.

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Brainstorm
I bought the AXDA1800DLT3C CPU for $67 a couple of days ago and ran in to some weirdness (slightly long message, but bear with me).

I plugged the CPU in to my Shuttle AK31A mobo and it booted up with "Unknown CPU Type 1464Mhz". I went ahead and flashed my mobo to the newest bios and then it recognized my CPU as an "Athlon XP 1100Mhz". That made no sense at all! So I went in to the bios and noticed that the FSB was set to 100Mhz (why? I have no idea!). So I set it to 133Mhz and rebooted and now it recognized the CPU as an "Athlon XP 1700+". Still does not make sense since it should be an 1800+. I then noticed that on random reboots it would detect the CPU was an "Athlon XP 2000+". So I said, what the heck - if it can randomly work as a 2000+, then I might as well try and force it to. I changed the multiplier from 11 to 13 and rebooted. Obviously I didn't expect this to work since the multiplier should be locked right? But no, it booted fine as a 2000+ and now i'm stressing it with Sandra and seems to be fine!! Oh, and i upped the voltage by 0.5 and it's running at 1.54V right now. No other changes. I tried to up the multiplier to 14, but it wouldn't boot, so i reset the bios.

Is this odd or what? Is anyone else facing weird issues with this CPU?

All Tbred A chips come unlocked. Your multiplier defaulted to 11 X for some reason; all you need to do is change it to 11.5X and it will be at it's rated speed. However, as mentioned above you can get that thing to run at 1.8 GHz easy, probably 1.9-2 GHz with decent cooling.

Originally posted by: jpbushido99
Wow New egg sent me the 1800+ Thorougbred with the B core, I get 2Ghz at 190fsb easy, core voltage at 1.550. Wow, runs very cool 27C idle 32-36 full load. The only bottle neck is my cooling I need to get a couple of extra fans in my case and I will be running this proc at 220fsb at 2.5 Ghz I am sure of it.

Tell us your model/stepping info on the core so we can verify this is a B-core T-bred! I'm highly skeptical right now, but 2 GHz at 1.55 V does sound like a Tbred B.

 

[arswihart]

bal-at-work,
the epox nforce2 8rda+ board has digital spdif in and out on a pci bracket

Who is currently selling 1800+ rev. b's? I want one.

Thx

 

[jacky72]

Originally posted by: BalAtWork
jpbushido,

What motherboard you using? What Mem?

I want to use the abit nf7-s with corsiar xms. I know people like the Epox and Asus but the Epox lacks the digital out and Asus has the stupid soundstorm driver problem (i know its not a "problem" but its one more pain in a** I don't want to hassle with with each new nvidia driver release)

8RDA+ does have the SPDIF connector on the board, only the bracket is missing

 

[arswihart]

is it? I thought it was included

 

[k1114]

Originally posted by: arswihart
is it? I thought it was included

nope, 18$ from epox. Its one of the reasons their board is sold cheaper: you dont have to pay for the bracket unless you need it

<3 my 8RDA+