do you remember...many years ago...

[petrefax]

when about 50% of people posting on here had an Abit NF7 s v2.0 motherboard and an Athlon XP2500 from a specific batch which was known to be overclockable to 3200 speeds?

try tho i have, i cannot find any threads providing detail of the CPU that we were all after at the time, if anyone has this info to hand i'd be very grateful!

(reason is, i've only recently retired this machine & am about to ebay the mobo & CPU together, so want to big them up as much as possble )

[Flibb]

They were the 2500 barton mobile processors, try searching on here for barton.

might be some info
http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-right2...valuation.html

[0iD]

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...tml#post304270

i have the NF7S-2 & the past 3 computers i've built for others have had the same board, can't recommend it enough. i generally run my XP2500+ at XP3200+ speeds with no issues at all on this board

[petrefax]

its was (is) the NF7

cheers flibb

[scaryjim]

That said, I overclocked by Thoroughbred B XP2600+ on a cheapy ASUS A7V8X-X to 2340MHz, which was beyond the stock speed for any T'bred Athlon....

They were great processors...

[SiM]

They were great processors...

Yeh, back in the day when intel sucked

[dfour]

Awesome board, so sad when Abit passed over. Had a nice mobile 2500+ running under water. Could do 2.5 gig on it. Kick the arse of anything In*el at the time

[GT-R]

My NF7-S v2.0 and xp2500+ barton mobile (@ 2200mhz) is still in everyday use as a family pc. I had it at 2400mhz when it was my system, also had a xp1800+ tbred b at the same clocks on the same board.

[wilsonian]

I seem to remember xp1700's could over clock some way too, least mine did on a AT7-MAX2

Ahhhh those were the days

Also the company I worked for at the time were buying xp3200's which turned out to be fakes (1700's OC'd to death - saw alot of those come back faulty)

[Ice Tea]

Wasn't it like 90w for a single core

[listy]

im sure i hat a 1600mhz duron that i cranked up to about 2100mhz on air

i didnt have one of them boards or cpu but still have a 3200 or 3000 kicking about

[cptwhite_uk]

Opteron 146 + Asrock DualSata S939 ...the first time I hit 3Ghz

But yes it was the Athlon XP Mobile 2500 (barton core) that you're referring too. It was just a simple upping of the FSB speed to 166 or something if i remember correctly, to achieve the same result as the 3200.

[Ice Tea]

I used to run a TI4200 with mine.

[TooNice]

Regular Barton chips (non-mobile) could do over 3200+ very consistently. I think it was the AQXEA stepping that started the 'stepping madness' (people paying more attention to stepping down to the week they were made). But that's usually to hit speed well above 3200+ (2.3-2.5Ghz on air).

[Ice Tea]

I had one of those Zalman copper flower coolers on mine before the first pipe coolers started.

[schmunk]

Ahem.

(points left)

I think mine's an AQYHA (after a quick Google). It's not particularly stellar.