Athlon4 low voltage 1.1ghz processor at the geeks

[JWade]

The geeks has a 1.1ghz amd athlon chip for $32 before shipping. Sweet deal for those who have a duron based laptop. 35w useage. I have a compaq 700US that originally has a duron 900 in it, replaced it with a 1ghz chip that cost me almost $90. This is a sweet deal if you ask me, for a laptop upgrade or for a possible fanless PC. Beaware laptop mayneed bios updated, I had for the 1ghz chip i put in it. Only 10 left last time i checked.

 

[ReiAyanami]

is this for laptops or desktops? how do we know if our mobo is SFF/low voltage comaptible?

and since its reduced to 35 watts, i'm assuming the heat will be much lower as well?

 

[JWade]

it just says motherboard, but it is also for a laptop or a desktop. Itis the low voltage athlon so it can be used in a laptop, for your desktop, if it supports the palimino core and 1.6v it "should" work

 

[weepul]

lol, i recently upgraded my althon tb 1.2ghz to xp 2400+. going to put my 1.2ghz on my spare computer @ home. $32 is a nice price. i remember last summer the celeron 500mhz was $50!

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[wshtb000]

35 watt is still too much for fanless I guess. My Soldering iron is 15 watt and it is burning hot.

 

[JWade]

different type of wattage i believe. My flourescant bulb is 40 watts and alot cooler

 

[GetSome681]

a Watt is a Watt, it only has one definition. It's a unit of energy per a given time. since heat is energy, watts can be used to describe heat given off, or electricity that a device uses...that's the difference.

OP, nice deal, might pick one up.

 

[JWade]

I ordered one, going to up my laptop from 1ghz to 1.1ghz, then i am either going to use it for a quite PC or sell ithere on the boards. If i dont go fanless, i know i can gowith a veryvery small quiet fan with it.

 

[hansmuff]

Doesn't a soldering iron have a much smaller surface area than a CPU ? Based on that, it makes sense that it gets much hotter than a CPU while generating similar amounts of heat total.

 

[buddha79]

Not that much smaller. Remember that the CPU core isn't really the size of what you're sticking in your mobo, it's really much smaller. Plus CPU's have pretty big heatsinks (in general), and a soldering iron doesn't. As far as the light bulb goes, remember if it gives off light it's giving off energy because light = energy.

Originally posted by: hansmuff
Doesn't a soldering iron have a much smaller surface area than a CPU ? Based on that, it makes sense that it gets much hotter than a CPU while generating similar amounts of heat total.

 

[inCreek]

Any suggestions for a reasonably priced flex or Micro ATX MB for this. I would like to set up an A/V Box, so would like to have integrated Video/LAN/Audio and will be great to have TV-Out. There were some boards like that available for PIII (like the ECS p6STP-FN). Is there one available for this chip?

Thanks.

 

[Replay]

Older, hotter, Palomino 0.18u core @ Geeks: "AMD Athlon SFF Palomino Desktop 35W Socket A CPU". You may get more Mhz for the money with newer chips.

I've taken old machines to higher speeds with the cooler 0.13 Thoroughbred XP chips ($42 shipped from Newegg, or $30 shipped as refurbs). They run faster, cooler, and use less power than this used chip from the Geeks.

Take an original Athlon 1700XP, (normally 1467Mhz, with 133MHz bus and 11X multipllier), and run it with a 100Mhz bus and you have 1100 Mhz. It is underclocked so much that it can be run with a lower core voltage. This is what you are buying from the Geeks.

I have an old Via chipset board with limited stable power to the cpu. It could run stable with an original Athlon 900 950 maybe 1GHz Thunderbird (about 50 watts tops). Now it is running as an Athlon "1750XP", at 1.5GHz, with an Athlon XP Thoroughbred (the 3 year old bios just calls it an Athlon 1500). The chip bridges were cut to set a 15x multiplier, the board runs it with a 100Mhz fsb, and the Vcore was left at the 1.5V default (for this Tbred A chip, but some "B"s came with 1.6V cores).

Several online guides exist for cutting and painting the chip bridges, if need be, to get the desired multiplier and core voltage. There are also online voltage and wattage calculators for AMD and Intel chips. I definitely got more speed with the newer chips, and did it for less than the cost of this CompGeeks chip.

 

[JWade]

For desktop applications i agree with you, but for laptops, like my compaq 900US, the newer chips wont work in it, i have tried it and they wouldnt. I used a little AS3 in the laptop too and it helped keep it cooler as well.

 

[q2261]

Originally posted by: JWade
different type of wattage i believe. My flourescant bulb is 40 watts and alot cooler

There is a lot more surface area for the heat to dissipate in case of fluorescent. Also, fluorescents are more efficient, i.e. their light:heat ratio is very high, hence the less heat felt. Just my $.02.