ERUs AMD ATHLON XP-M 2500+ SKT-A OEM BARTON (Mobile)Unlocked

[Stoo]

that little plastic tray a little clamshell thing? If so it's standard, and is antistatic anyway, the only way to get anything more substantial is if you order a retail box, even then it's still in the same tray

I'm sure it will be fine

[samwise]

doe the 2500 mobile work in a normal desktop mobo?

[ERU]

Well i've been abit busy to give the cpu the time it deserves in the last day but i have been playing with it today and it certainly hasnt topped out yet. My Prime stable results so far \o/ are

The bios vcore is currently 1.8v but i think i am having some kind of problems with cooling. Obviosly the lower 3d mark 2003 score was as i was running prime95 at the same time. My psu could also be a problem but i havent looked into it yet. I am seriously thinking of finally biting the bullet and going over to watercooling or even a prommy as i can see cooling be the major problem i am going to have. I would like to make my system quieter too. I guess its worth stating that i mainly overclock to 'get something for nothing' so i am not too interested in buying the most expensive components to reach a maximum. My memory will be a problem sooner or later as is doesnt like timmings other than default - although doesnt mind higher fsb's.

[Chandler_90]

Are u guys sayin that if I was to buy a XP2500 M then I could put it in my A7N8X, increase the core voltage and overclock the bollox outta it!!??

I might consider it.. 2.2 - 2.4 stable with air would be good..

Think I might reconsider that 3200 I was gonna buy.....

[funnelhead]

Hey AL and Dpm - you get yours from Cpu City or OCUK?? I'm guessing Cpucity as OcUk don't have any in stock (did they ever?)

It still works yeah?

F

[funnelhead]

oh yeah and whatever you do don't buy a mobile Athlon off OcUk as they ordered the wrong chips hahaha - they ordered 1.65v chips (the same as desktop) whereas CPUCITY got the proper 1.45v chips. And yes i hate OcUK as they sold me not one , but TWO dvd drives that dont actually read dvd's. They refused to take the first one back - i threw the second one in the bin. cough. CPUCITy

just to give you an idea

1.45v = 35W

1.65v = 72W

This is from OcUk's own forum.

F

[Ashen]

2.7 gigs on water.....mmmmmmmmmm. I'm buying some liquid nitrogen, so it's time to shoot for 3.3 ghz with the entire system submerged. I might pick up one of these XP-M's to get the best potential.

[Ashen]

Oh, btw, any suggestions on LN2 suggestions would be great.

[Allen]

Mine's screwed... anyone running this chip on the A7N8X-E? Would be interesting to know how you did it. I can't even run from my old chip now... think me mobo's borked

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=14761

[dpm]

funnelhead - yeah, got mine from CPUcity - works a-ok, although I'm not bothering to oc until my new RAM arrives.

Big Al - commiserations mate - mine seems to work fine on a NF7-S

and
Stoo - it came perched on a blue plastic hollow square tray, obviously snapped off a larger tray, with no lid, held in place only by the bubble wrap taped around it. It works fine, but I'm still not too impressed.

I've bought OEM CPUs before (the last two from TCWO and Newegg) and they've always come better packed than that - usually in little see-through plastic clamshell cases. (the one from TCWO was also protected by a packet of swizzlers - that was a classy company ) I'd expect a company that called itself CPUcity would put a little more thought into how they protect the CPUs they send out.

Still, mine works, so its not the end of the world, eh?

[aeronic]

these new Mobile xps seem good, but my 'ol 0301 xp2100+ does 2.4ghv on 1.8v and air
i dont really think all that much progress has been made.
the tbred/barton have always been awsome

on a good note, i just saw that these are unlocked

[megatron]

I can't get to the front side bus's that I could achieve with both my 2800+ and my 2500+.

Listen up dude I can help u need an L12 mod look at my results here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...threadid=30126

Sorry if its already been told.

[megatron]

I also hate OCuK. A moderator hassled me over my sig which was the same as above. Apparently u can't have more than 400 pixels wide. I can't believe they are so @n@l about it. I also had to threaten to contact Barclaycard to help reimburse me after I couldn't get an RMA for a razor boomslang mouse, simply because they ignored emails and their support line was always engaged.

My cpu from CPu city also came in a half of an anti-static container and bubblewrap.

[bigZ]

Listen up dude I can help u need an L12 mod look at my results here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...threadid=30126

Sorry if its already been told.

cheers for the heads up dude, I'll give it a go in my push for 18k with this 9600XT

3DMark 2001SE - 17664 - 750/372 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7605121

[ERU]

I had a right burn-in today with vcore voltages I normally wouldn’t dare to go near with air cooling but curiosity got the better of me - i needed to know.
I have decided to have it run 24/7 (for now) on:
200x12(2400mhz)
1.825 vcore in bios
27/44C idle temp
33/51C load/max temp

I have been trying to get to 2600mhz with just the multiplier but failed to get it to run stably in Windows. This was even with 2.15 vcore !!! in the bios and 2.7v down the DDR on air too! A weird thing happened too - it blanked all my ZoneAlarm saved program list. I may test more to see if this was the memory borking for whatever reason or as I predominantly suspect heat. My temps at these voltages were 34/57C but I obviously didn’t hang about long enough to test much. The temps on air itself is pretty amazing.
I’m also thinking my PSU is causing probs as a quick look at MBM5 shows:
| Current | Low | High | Average |
|Core 0 | 1.87 V | 1.86 V | 1.89 V | 1.87 V |
|Core 1 | 2.70 V | 2.69 V | 2.70 V | 2.69 V |
|+3.3 | 3.34 V | 3.33 V | 3.34 V | 3.34 V |
|+5.00 | 5.03 V | 5.00 V | 5.03 V | 5.02 V |
|+12.00 | 11.86 V | 11.80 V | 11.92 V | 11.89 V |
|-12.00 | -12.03 V | -11.94 V | -12.03 V | -11.96 V |
|-5.00 | -5.04 V | -4.99 V | -5.09 V | -5.04 V |
|CPU Fan | 3879 RPM | 3879 RPM | 3924 RPM | 3890 RPM |

Although they are not too steady now (2400mhz) they were jumping even more at 2600mhz. I need to get myself a multimeter to check some of them for sure as both the bios and MBM5 give suspect results.

I got the CPU to run fine at 200x12.5(25050mhz) 1.9vcore 29/48C idle but don’t really want to run 24/7 with that voltage & air. I may be persuaded later to stepup as I read more. I really need to clarify that these CPUs can handle the heat/voltage first. For now I can stay around 2500mhz and start messing with the FSB and other voltages.