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AMD Athlon FX-51 Socket 940 clocking - is CAAMC 0337XPMW a good stepping?

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Hi

I'm still stuck on Socket 940 and due to the limitations of my motherboard I can't really overclock the HTT whilst using SATA ports (no AGP locks)

I'm currently using an Opteron 146, stepping CAACC 0423XPMW which did 2.3GHz (10x230) at stock volts with ease with the memory at 230MHz. I ran it like this for some time with my old IDE drive but put it back to stock when I bought a new sata drive. I never tried to push it any further

I can get this chip rather cheaply and the unlocked multiplier should allow me to overclock it. Google wasn't being all that helpful, apart from suggesting that 2.5GHz should be easily attainable

If that's the case then it could be worth it (particuarly when I sell my Opteron) as I'll be going from 2 to 2.5GHz.

I'm currently using the ASUS SK8V motherboard with an Akasa EVO120 CPU cooler

Does anyone have any information on this chip and whether it'll be worth going for?

Many thanks
 
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