Anyone got a 2006 CPU yet?

[loltim]

Got my X2 3800+ yesterday, whipped the IHS off the same day( ) and noticed the stepping indicated being made this year. Might be some uber silicon or something So, anyone else using 2006 silicon?

I'll let you know how overclocking goes.

 

[Chris19]

maybe thats just the silicon for x2 chips?

 

[Jokester]

Tradionally CPUs made over Xmas/New Year are poor clockers because QA goes down due to the festivities

Jokester

 

[Solouko]

speaking of silicon, what's the actual differance in terms of electrical properties, material, production/purification/doping, performance between standard Athlon 64 silicon and Opteron Silicon, because somone mentioned in passing that the opteron silicon is better for some reason, and i'm wondering why/how?

 

[Jokester]

There's no specific difference, but it's supposed that S939 Opteron cores are speed binned for running at lower voltage. They're otherwise identical cores, same production line and same core design. Just that run produced better performing chips.

Jokester

 

[loltim]

Tradionally CPUs made over Xmas/New Year are poor clockers because QA goes down due to the festivities

Jokester

bah

Well i'll be cranking it up later, not afraid of volts so should be interesting I've seen these 3800's hit 3GHz but some won't even do 2.5GHz.

maybe thats just the silicon for x2 chips?

I've seen 2005 week 30 X2's. Not sure if they were made any earlier, its the first 2006 CPU I've seen or heard of.

 

[loltim]

Update:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=88968

2.6GHz stable, only ran Prime for an hour and that 3DM06 run but will be looking to increase the speed anyway, soon

 

[Cyber-Mav]

that core could be 2005, the day the heatspreadder was slapped on could be the date stamp.

 

[loltim]

Maybe? But that then goes against everything we say and hear about the good steppings ie. CABYE 0540.

 

[Zephyrus]

Wouldn't that put the cat amongst the pidgeons

 

[loltim]

www.krikey.nildram.co.uk/stable.JPG

 

[Martynt74]

Hmm weird, all FX60's i've seen recently have been around 0536 or so aswell didnt think 06 silicon was around

 

[loltim]

Right, 0601 silicon is nothing to shout about I'm afraid. 2.6GHz 10hr stable (see above) but core0 fails Prime at 2.7GHz, core1 carries on but thats not much use.

I'll probably try 1.65v+ just to see what happens but for now, 2.6GHz it is, could have been better, could have been a lot worse. Still a 600MHz overclock, just need to fix this stutter now, I've seen the XP32 fix but no XP64 fix?!?