AQXEA no more left

**wedge22** · 18-09-2003, 11:22 PM

CPU city seem to have ran out of this chip and are now selling the AQZEA, is this going to be as good??

**Dr. X** · 19-09-2003, 11:33 AM

My magic 8 ball says don't count on it.

**wedge22** · 21-09-2003, 04:24 PM

That is a real shame as i was going to buy one, looks like i will have to put it on hold now then.

**Trash Man** · 21-09-2003, 04:39 PM

I expect they will be just as good.

**d_fresh1** · 21-09-2003, 04:39 PM

not showing off or anything...but my (edit: AQXEA ) does 11x200 on stock volts...

edit2: check here http://www.cpudatabase.com/CPUdb/

**johnyhy1** · 21-09-2003, 05:27 PM

Originally posted by d_fresh1
not showing off or anything...but my (edit: AQXEA ) does 11x200 on stock volts...

edit2: check here http://www.cpudatabase.com/CPUdb/

show off......

**dawson** · 21-09-2003, 05:38 PM

I think my 1700 JUIHB DLT3C may have passed away, so I'll be looking for an alternative replacement that can do around 2200mhz, I'm gonna keep an eye on how these chips do I think, or I might even go for a 1600mhz Duron for some good old Duron lovin'

Has anyone else got one of these AQXEA beasties? How have you got on with it?

**Stoo** · 21-09-2003, 06:44 PM

I had a bit of a google on the AQZEA, and it seems like they o/c just as well as the AQXEA, if not better

**micovwar** · 22-09-2003, 07:01 AM

***Has anyone else got one of these AQXEA beasties? How have you got on with it?***

i bought an aqxea along with 2x512mb twinmos 3200 and i have to say these are great lil chips,ive had mine at 11x200=2.21ghz just using fsb increases but i rolled it back to 2.1ghz for safe measure

**dawson** · 22-09-2003, 01:01 PM

Hmmm... My XP1700 is stable up to around 2.5ghz on air, just a touch too hot! I'm not sure if it's worth changing imo.

**CrapshoT** · 22-09-2003, 01:23 PM

my AQXDA does 11x205 fsb on 1.65v which is recognised as a 3200xp in my bios

**Austin** · 22-09-2003, 02:13 PM

IMHO all Barton cores are good, you have to be VERY unlucky to find one which tops out around 2.0ghz which is still as fast as a TbredB at 2.1ghz anyway. Go by price of the XP2500+ rather than worrying about the core.

Sure the new Durons should clock fast but they're likely to around 15% slower clock for clock than a Barton even when you raise the Duron's FSB speed. For an idea of comparable perf between the new Durons, TbredB and Barton...

Duron @ 2.3ghz = TbredB @ 2.1ghz = Barton @ 2.0ghz
Duron @ 2.4ghz = TbredB @ 2.2ghz = Barton @ 2.1ghz
Duron @ 2.5ghz = TbredB @ 2.3ghz = Barton @ 2.2ghz
Duron @ 2.65ghz = TbredB @ 2.4ghz = Barton @ 2.3ghz

The Durons should cost around £35-40 (cheaper in a month or so) and it would seem clock on average 2.2-2.4ghz. The TbredB should cost £40-50 and clock on average 2.1-2.3ghz. The Barton cost £70 and clock on average 2.1-2.25ghz.

Just rem all Durons from 1.4ghz up SHOULD be the new 0.13mu core but could also be o/c'ed 0.18mu Durons (1.5ghz o/c tops), be careful. When buying a TbredB you must be sure it is JIUHB, AIUHB (etc) as neither DLT3C nor DUT3C ensure TbredB ... TbredA is much poorer. Things are easiest with Bartons as any XP2500+ is a guaranteed Barton.

**d_fresh1** · 22-09-2003, 05:26 PM

the duron chips the lad is talking abt is one here http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/catalo...roducts_id=294 ...im sure they are on the 0.13 since staff there managed to get 2.5ghz and also ulock 256kb of l2 cache using some russian trick thing (thereby changing it into a tbred)...check the forums for more info

**Austin** · 22-09-2003, 05:50 PM

The problem is that almost all those 0.13mu are derived from Tbreds (some probably TbredA) which had part of the L2 cache faulty, hence locking som eof it off rather than binning the CPU. Chances will surely be significantly less than all those who tried to mod their lowly 9500nonPRO into a 9700PRO and the chances of enabling 8 pipes even with a 9700PCB was well below 50%. Not worth the gamble as we're talking £5ish diff for a guaranteed 256k L2 TbredB. Not only that but the reason it's more likely to hit such high speeds is due to having some of the cache disabled. Re-enabling the whole cache is likely to inhibit the attainable clock speed and that's if it works ... it can be harder to reversea bridge mod.

I could understand those who wanted to turn their £100 gfx card into a £400 monster but it seems a little futile to try turning a £35 CPU into a £40 CPU ...

**d_fresh1** · 23-09-2003, 08:58 PM

i was just abt to edit the post to say that these durons are just faulty, rebadged tbreds

, oh well, u got there b4 me

**Dr. X** · 24-09-2003, 03:47 PM

Argh, my magic 8 ball lied to me!

Last time I ever rely on it

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