3500+ Clawhammer 512K A64s are here

lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
edited March 2005 in Hardware
Seems that the newer winchester yeilds were very poor, and AMD has decided to keep .13nm going a little longer. As opposed to the newcastle .13nm chips, and .09nm winchesters, AMD has begun to ship 'AS' steppings, which are 1024KB L2 Clawhammer SH7-CG chips, with half of the L2 cache disabled for a total of 512KB. It appears that these chips are 4000+ and FX55 processors with faulty cache.

Preliminary overclocking results are very good. Most seem to do 2.6GHz at stock voltage, and some scaling as high as 2.9GHz with little effort. There is a massive thread going on right now at XS about these chips..

I've seen some of these for sale already, with the product code ADA3500ASBOX. Prices are not inflated (yet). No telling how long these will last. I'm seriously thinking about ebaying my winchester for one of these. They seem to have more solid memory controllers.

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    what's the stock voltage?
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2005
    csimon wrote:
    what's the stock voltage?

    1.5V like the other .13nm chips..
  • mondimondi Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    I just picked up one of these, I upgraded my motherboard to an MSI k8n neo4, and had to return the 3000+ winnie's I bought (one new one - CBBID, and one of the "magic" CBBFD's) because they wouldnt overclock worth a dime (admittedly this board has issues with winchesters) ... so i decided to go ahead and spend the extra cash and get a 3500 newcastle, and lo and behold - CAA2C.. havent spent too much time overclocking yet, but im up to 2600 so far, with less than awsome cooling ... its a great chip to be sure.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    What i think they are trying to do is to get rid of the stock of claws since the Venice is coming in a few weeks. This have me thinking that these cpu's are moddable to the full cache. All someone needs to do is to remove the spreader......and compare.
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