Legit Reviews

I am going through my hard drive and found some old photos from March of 2003... One is of my super overclocking AMD Athlon XP 1600+ with the AGOIA stepping and then the Throughbred Athlon XP 1700+ with the stepping DL3TC.

Oh these suckers were gold a few years ago!



Long live all the old Athlon XP's that I overclocked and the few I killed

How many of you honestly remember these steppings?

I had one of the AGOIA a while back, I ended up trading it not to long ago for some stuff that I needed.................;)

did any of yall ever do the physical unlocking to the ones that were locked? I had an XP that was like that, but never did the unlock to it, i did have my knowlege of electronics back then like i do now. LOL

Mine were unlocked from the factory............ They all were before the end of 03 I think it was. Even had a unlocked 2500 Barton before I switched to A64s.

If you look close at the green one you will see that it has been unlocked on the upper right hand side so all the multi's work... Oh the great rear window defogger repair kit mod... LOL

I was in Intels corner back then..... 2.4C northwood....

Bio-Hazard wrote:Mine were unlocked from the factory............ They all were before the end of 03 I think it was. Even had a unlocked 2500 Barton before I switched to A64s.

yep, all pre-week 39's were unlocked from the factory.....sucked trying to have to work around a 10x multi on the later ones to get a decent OC, lol.

kenc51 wrote:I was in Intels corner back then..... 2.4C northwood....

I still have a 2.4C, very good chips still OC well.

infinitevalence wrote:

kenc51 wrote:I was in Intels corner back then..... 2.4C northwood....

I still have a 2.4C, very good chips still OC well.

I gave mine to my sister and my nephews...along with a 850E chipset board, 1GB PC1066 RDram etc....
I never had the chance to OC it much, the board had no PCI/AGP lock..

yup, i remember these cores very well, it's prolly b/c i'm still using them, heh.

my Pally AGOIA oc'd to 1833mhz on stock voltage and stock HSF. with good air cooling it run nicely at 2000mhz. one time i almost FUBAR'd this core. i was doing a 7volt cpu fan mod, back before fan controllers came out. i started up my machine at 2000mhz and it crashed soon after. i thought that was weird. then started it back up only to notice the temp was 97C!!! . yup, i did the wire mod wrong, lol. so it would boot to windows but crash when i tried to open a program, i thought oh ****, i fried the L2! so later, after calming down, i took off the hsf only to find little round bubble marks in the AS3, i thought OH DAYAM! i boiled the grease! lmao. AMD states the max junction gate temp is 90C. i thought it was a goner. but i re-applied the grease and hsf and the thing booted back up and ran fine at defaults, then i slowly upped it to 2000mhz and it ran just like nothing ever happened, lmao. it's still in use today in my HTPC running my Home Theater system.

the other core, my 1700+ TBred JIUHB DLT3C w/1.5vcore defaults, i ran for some time at 214mhz FSB and 2569mhz on my Abit NF7-S. but then i took it over to my DFI NF2 mobo and ran it at 250 FSB and 2500mhz. this was before the Holy Mobiles came out and people were into the 2500+ cpus. but mine ran just as fast or better than the current 2500+ bartons. it's still running strong also. i just took it out of my parents computer i built for them and replaced it with my sig rig Desktop Locked 2500+.

now i have two pretty decent SKT A cpu's to play around with, one doing around 10x250, the other doing around 10x260~265 on air.

ahhh, the good ole days

i'm now on to my new build, nf3 250 / Newark / water cooling / CM Stacker. should be in the 3.2~3.4ghz range with it.

TGM