xp-m 2500+ unlocked?

csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
edited February 2004 in Hardware
According to this article the xp-m 2500+ is unlocked and available at newegg ...http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14245. Just an FYI

also ...http://forums.amdmb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=297449

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  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2004
    All the mobile procs are unlocked due to the need for a lappy to be able to vary their speed, depending on whether they are on batteries or not. Newegg also has barton core 2400m and 2600m procs in stock too.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    yes i remember when you discovered that quite a while back. how well do the 2400 and 2600's oc?
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    How much cooler do they run?
    I am looking at building my wife a micro or sff box.
    Less heat to handle would be real nice.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2004
    If you aren't overclocking them much so you can run the default vcore, they don't put out near the heat of a normal Barton. You could run a nice, quiet hsf with it with no problems. If you jack up the vcore and speed, they will perform just about like a normal Barton, heatwise. You should be able to run at least 2 GHz at default vcore, which is 1.45 or 1.55v, I don't remember which. BTW, don't believe the stuff that Newegg has posted on these procs as they are kind of messed up on the specs they list. The default speed for the 2600m I just ordered is 2000 MHz (15 X 133). One other thing about them is that the desktop boards use the default multiplier set on the chip, which is very low. These procs use the PowerNow! software technology in laptops to vary the speed and desktop boards don't have/support this feature. So you need to either pinmod the multi you want or change it in the bios for proper operation. My NF7-S lets me choose the whole range of multipliers but my A7N8X only lets me choose up to 12.5 without pinmodding or modding the bridges.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    since stock vcore of the mobile is 1.45v and barton is 1.65v my guess is at least 10c cooler ...which is fantastic.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited February 2004
    Makes me want to buy one. I havent had anything higher than a 1800+ yet.

    Whats this I hear about 1.25 vcore CPUs. Someone at school said they heard of one as well. The prescotts take less I think but I dont know of any AMDs that will.

    Well after reading AMDMB it was $89, then $95, and now its $100 and out of stock. Some guy said he bought 4 after his first. DAMN!!

    So what mod would need to be done to get this to work on a normal ATX board?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    AFAIK, none. Drop it in and it'll work. You'll just have to fix the multiplier in the BIOS, or possibly by pinmodding it, if your board can't handle high multis...
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited February 2004
    I have 2 NF7-S:)
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited February 2004
    NF7-s and AN7's require no modding. You drop the chip in, it boots at something like 8x100 and you just change it accordingly. I've got a 2400-m right now running @ 2.5GHz (12.5x200) at 2.0vcore, 51c with a sf2 @ 4800 rpm and an slk 947U. I ordered a SP97 this morning, hopefully that will help with my oc's. These are amazing chips. My 2400-M is scarfing down gromacs as we speak. I've got another one sitting on my desk waiting for my nf7-s rma to come back. Stepping is something like AQFXA i believe. Awesome chips.

    Nick
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Can they be MP modded?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2004
    It's a little tricky as they have the new style pcb with the fake dots but yes, they can. A guy over at overclockers.com's forums did just that for a K7D Master-L.

    BTW Marc, they still have the 2400m in stock for $88 and they overclock well too. They were $79 a week ago though.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    marc..the 1.25v mobile ones u are asking about are the ultra-thin laptop cpu's, which are uPGA and will not work on an ATX mobo. the ones newegg has are DTR's (desktop replacement) mobile cpus which will work just fine. most hit 2.0-2.1 at default vcore of 1.45v.

    my 2400m @ 1.75v on a KD7-E KT333 mobo...
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