I have the same week (44) and this is what I've got so far: I'm a bit leary to start messing with the vcore (I'm a first time OCer), but I already have mine up to 240x10 running my cheap mushkin PC3200 at 1:1. It is prime stable and I have been trying out different HTT, but I still am hesitant to raise the vcore/vdimm...
On the top of the actual CPU, the steping is all listed out. You look for the 4 digits in the middle of the second column (usually 04--) which secifies the year and week. You cannot see it with a heatsink on, though.
This has already been said in the past but I guess I'll bring it up again. The main factor in how good your chip is does not depend on the week, but is mostly dependent on the location of your CPU on the wafer and other higher frequency (more often then week to week) variations. Week to week the quality of the CPUs change, but not as much as it does from one part of the wafer to the other!
I don't know off hand. Supposedly, there's a way to decode the codes on the CPU into some meaningful information related to wafer quality, but I honestly don't have any idea. Search some of the other more popular overclocking forums, I've seen some information there about this type of thing but I believe it's mostly speculative since no one has come out to say XXXX is from the center of the wafer with higher purity while YYYY is from the sides with lower purity.
Damn, I just got AMD 3200+ Winchester and Neo2 Plat and most It wants to go is like 10*220. If i go higher It wont boot. best oc so far is only 230*9.5 Im gunna cry now.....
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