Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

[Amd_Lover2004]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Is there any way to unlock my athlon 64's multiplier without tampering with hardware?

I cant live with it being at 11!!!

[wayout44]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

They're unlocked downwards but there is no way to unlock them upwards from the set multiplier (only the FX range is fully unlocked).

[sr4470]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Theyre unlocked downwards to allow "cool and quiet" to function, but thats it. But the new 90nm winchesters seem to go 33% over stock with decent air cooling...

[Amd_Lover2004]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

So what abou the 4000 then, scince it was an FX at one time?

[wayout44]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Theyre unlocked downwards to allow "cool and quiet" to function, but thats it.

Or in conjuction with the HT multiplier by an overclocker who wants to see how far they can push the internal CPU/memory HTT/frequency while keeping the mainboard HTT at a stable speed (its just a shame though atm that higher rates only seem to be produced while using PATA HDD's and not while operating with a SATA HDD's).

[Carlz0r]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

So what abou the 4000 then, scince it was an FX at one time?

Nope. 4000 only has the lower multipliers unlocked.

[Amd_Lover2004]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

So I guess when they converted it to the normal Athlon 64 Line they removed the multiplier?

[wayout44]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Well they just internally lock the higher ones out.

[Amd_Lover2004]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Yeah thats what I meant sorry.

[Carlz0r]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

It's too bad Opterons have their multipliers locked. Can you imagine running a 2 way opteron system at 2.8-3.5 gHz a piece?

[Amd_Lover2004]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Everyone that owns a server now would be like, "**** what the hell good is this piece of crap I got here." And eventuary go for the good stuff. Although I do see the scence in locking the Optron line, Servers are ment to last a long time and overclocking them would dramaticly shorten their life span. Depending on the amount of overclocking of coarse. Optrons Being used in servers mainly.

[Yawgm0th]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

So what abou the 4000 then, scince it was an FX at one time?

Nope. AMD locks the maximum multipliers on all non-F models. You could just buy an FX-53 instead of a 4000 if you needed that.

[wayout44]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Nope. AMD locks the maximum multipliers on all non-F models.

Damn, I was almost sure that that was already stated earlier.

[Yawgm0th]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

Well he seemed to ignore it...

[toliveistodie948]

Re: Amd Shoots Themselves In The Foot!?

So what abou the 4000 then, scince it was an FX at one time?

k i guess my question is what exactly is the diff between the FX-53 and the 4000. also im lookin at getting a FX-55, do does anyone know/heard any rumors of amd releasing a non FX version and if that is built off the 90nm core. and if they did release a non fx version would it be more/less stable or bout the same and which would be better for OC'ing?