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ok... i'm interested in getting one...
so anyone have experience w/ the morgan chip?
how well does it overclock?

Vid man likes them. I have a 1.2g duron, it is nice and everything but I havent OC'ed it. the lower speed XP's though are cheap and I would sugest them.

Greg

yeah but I can get a 1.3 duron for only $65 or so

Greg has a good point what with the lower clocked XP's coming down in price etc........ http://www.tcwo.com lowered their prices again last nite. Check their prices on P-watch and then phone the order in for lowest price. Their prices on their site are sometimes higher than the advertised P-watch prices. What with them being an excellent vendor a $7 dollar shipping, you may want to grab a 1500+(10x multi) or 1600+(10.5 multi). If you get lucky and get an AGOGA-y or AGOIA-y stepping, you can prolly crank anywhere from 1633 to 1700 MHz with one of those.

Newegg has the 1500+ for $91 shipped. That gives you the sweet 10x multi too.

I"d wait just few more days or a week as I think AMD is gonna announce the t-breds anytime now. XP+ prices are dropping quite rapidly and that usually signals that vendors are clearing out inventory in anticipation of a new release.


Don't expect much OCing headroom from a 1.3 . I hear they only go to like 1390-1400. I'd get a 1.2 and hope that maybe you come up with a good core that will do 1.33 or 1.4 GHz. I like them because you get SSE support, have the easy to unlock L1 bridges, and they run cooler than t-birds. Great for a family rig or 2nd system.


Get yourself a mechanical pencil and unlock the L1 bridges and you're good to go. As you can see in my sig, I have a 1.0 running 1.2 GHz with a FSB of 185. I'm able to pull over 7100 3dmarks with that setup. That's w/ the GF3 ti200 OCed to like 220/500 using coolbits.

I got the Duron for the sole reason of seeing what this Samsung/XP333R was capable of with regards to front side bus speeds. I'll prolly keep it as a spare cpu once I move this rig up to low end XP+ or simply shoot the works and get a 2000+ and unlock it.


Hey Greg, Like get the pencil out and see what that 1.2 Duron will do already !!!

the durons are cheap, that is forsure.

Greg

Gotta say the XP's are a better bet/value for any overclocking I think. I just picked up my third XP for 77 fjor a 1700+ from the forums, new oem from a trader and they are all capable of about 2000+ speeds with decent cooling and the ability to get the fsb up there.

I seem to be limited to about 145fsb on my 2 epox and a gigabyte mb with good mem settings. The KT333 cs sounds good but I always wait for the "A" models from Via.

I just picked up a slightly used Asus tualitan mb and a 1.1a retail celeron and thats doing 1.466/133fsb fine so far with a bigger fan but stock voltage, 1.475! That's sure impressed me although the memory bandwidth of sdram is pretty poor compared to the ddr at double bus.