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Seller does not accept returns See details. You need to know the settings, because they're not in the manual yet. They're actually printed on the motherboard itself, in two little tables, but you'll probably find it less than totally convenient to read those tables after building a computer. ASUS aren't yet shipping multiplier-adjust A7Vs with a manual to match; you get the manual for the plain integrated-sound version.
No matter; all you need are these settings, and to know to set the FSB to MHz, and you're in business. Athlons and Durons really run from a MHz, speed-doubled bus, so 7. But AMD decided that increments of 0. Fair enough. Don't get too excited about that It may be attainable with future Socket CPUs, but not with anything on the market today.
Unless you're using outrageous sub-zero cooling, you can't expect current Durons to work at anything above MHz. And that's definitely pushing it, if you want a stable computer. Most overclockers are 3D game players, which means they're running Windows 98, because that's the OS you want for maximum 3D graphics performance. But Windows 98 isn't a very stable operating system. In much the same way that the Taliban aren't big fans of Julian Clary. Add a computer full of new shiny hardware running the latest Loony Enthusiast Drivers to the already not-so-nice stability of Win98, and a flaky CPU can be lost in the swirl of bluescreens, hangs and nonsense-errors.
Plus, of course, scoring a successful overclock to some outrageous speed is like clocking a magnificent drag racing ET, or having a spectacular golf handicap.
There's a big incentive to demonstrate your technical prowess by calling a machine that falls in a screaming heap every 20 minutes "rock solid stable". Thus will all the world know that truly you have, as the youngsters say, da mad skillz. After all, it's not as if the 17 people that read "Colin Dull's Astonishing Adventures in Overclocking" as a recent correspondent of mine called such sites every week can tell whether you're lying or not.
These facts colour my attitude towards people who're eager to tell the world about their rock-solid-stable MHz Duron. OK, maybe so. And maybe not. My MHz Duron was really and truly stable, for hours on end of system flogging, at any speed up to MHz.
I had to goose the CPU voltage up to 1. When the machine started up at that speed and 1. Much random fiddling was needed to get it to start up at again. Now, MHz is only a 6. In synthetic CPU benchmarks, processors with the same basic core architecture but different cache amounts will benchmark the same.
Since that pretty much sums up the difference between the Duron and the Socket "Thunderbird" Athlon, it's not surprising that at a given clock speed, they're indistinguishable in thumb-twiddling teeny-tests. This is pretty much irrelevant to the real world, though.
Do real world tests, and the Duron stands up well to its more expensive sibling. That depends on the game, the resolution and the graphics card, but I for one wouldn't want to have to pick the difference between identically clocked Durons and Athlons in any entertainment title. It seems, from other users' reports, that MHz is a thoroughly realistic reliable overclock result from any unlocked-multiplier Duron.
But let's say you buy a MHz Duron, and only get it to Rarity keeps the price up. If you're upgrading an old Pentium II machine, but don't want to rip your whole computer apart to install a new motherboard, you should check out Celerons rather than Durons. With a "slotket" adaptor board, most P-II boards will work fine with Celerons up to the model, the fastest based on the old P-II core. A plain Celeron not the A, which is the newer P-III based Coppermine model doesn't have the power of a stock-speed Duron , and it costs a little more than the AMD chip too, but as a drop-in upgrade it can't be beaten.
Forget overclocking - the C's already running pretty much as fast as that old core can go - but it's a great no-fuss upgrade nonetheless. The only issue I had was the Memory chips I had were not good. After installing a new chip it fired right up. Performance is great. I think that the manual could be a little clearer when it talks about processor speed. Comments: I have had to return this motherboard 3 times because the bios didn't work.
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