Phenom Overclocking

[fluxion]

i was reading through [H]'s Phenom review:

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQyMiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

and noticed this little blurb:

"Gone are the 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz parts it wished to be shipping at launch due to a TLB (translation lookup buffer) L3 errata issue. All this is being fixed by AMD, but it means lower clocked processors for now as the TLB issue pops up at 2.4GHz+."

does this mean overclocked 2.3/2.4 procs are likely to encounter the same issues? if so, what's the actual impact (i havent read up on the errata, but it seems to be fairly significant if it caused such a large recall)

 

[FrgMstr]

i was reading through [H]'s Phenom review:

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQyMiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

and noticed this little blurb:

"Gone are the 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz parts it wished to be shipping at launch due to a TLB (translation lookup buffer) L3 errata issue. All this is being fixed by AMD, but it means lower clocked processors for now as the TLB issue pops up at 2.4GHz+."

does this mean overclocked 2.3/2.4 procs are likely to encounter the same issues? if so, what's the actual impact (i havent read up on the errata, but it seems to be fairly significant if it caused such a large recall)

I don't think so. I think more of the issues seen were for server parts. That said, the new BIOS is supposed to have a toggle to make an adustment so the error surely does not happen, but I am not sure what the impact will be to performance.

My overclocked Phenom CPUs here have been solid when you put some voltage to them.

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

overclocking the agena chips is actually something i'm pretty excited for. split power planes, interesting new memory controller design, and adjustable multipliers for each core? count me in