Took the test : SiSoftware Sandra-Home made Athlon XP 3200+ is REAL-NOT FAKE

[Filip]

As you can see I made an Athlon 3200+ out of 2200+ by only playing with the bridges.
The FSB is 195 and is very close to original 3200+ FSB 200, so it is't just that numbers are fake, look at yourself at these tests:

http://photobucket.com/albums/a249/filip-matijevic/?action=view&current=2.png

http://photobucket.com/albums/a249/filip-matijevic/?action=view&current=1.png

My mobo doesn't support 200 FSB so it's 195

 

[Praetor]

Even forgiving the 195vs200 core clock which is acceptable, theres no way you'll overcome the missing 256K of L2 Not to suggest you've not done a nice OC or anything, you'll need to get more than 200x11 to get a real PR of more than 3200 ... regardless of what Sandra tells you ... my guess is prolly 220MHz core.

 

[apj101]

but its still nice to see the old bridge mods

 

[Praetor]

Absolutely, long time since ive seen those ... most of what i see now are "using windows tools" to "oc" your computer lol

 

[Filip]

is there a way to test L2 cache memory?

 

[Filip]

I don't know who to believe now, cuz here they say one thing and on this link another, it say's like this: "The Thorton is using the Barton core. We think that this bridge setup is a decisive difference with Barton."

http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html

 

[Praetor]

At this point, there's been no official confirmation of Thorton's existence from AMD. However, The Inquirer points out that the latest BIOS for Epox's 8RDA+ explicitly adds support for the Thorton core

Interesting ... in any case, it does seem like, Thorton = Barton - 256K ... but that doesnt clearly define the difference between TBredB and Thorton (because ive seen conflicting reports on the core clock for Thortons)

 

[Filip]

looks like i got a athlon 3200+ for very small money, but as i said it doesn't matter cuz i'm gonna upgrade my computer soon.