AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz or 1.4 GHz?

AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz or 1.4 GHz?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Anyone out there got a left-over AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 GHz or 1.4 
GHz?  I have been using an Iwill KA-266 motherboard as my primary board 
for the last three years with a 1.2 GHz Athlon on it.  Just this weekend 
I bought a new CPU cooler, 1 GB of PC2700 RAM (only requires PC2100) 
that I can run at CAS 2, and a new Antec Sonata case.  After I got all 
of this I was tweaking the settings for my new RAM, since I knew it 
could perform better than the default settings which are for PC2100 RAM 
at CAS 2.5.  I was able to change the RAM from "normal" settings to 
"fast" settings and changed the CAS from 2.5 to 2.  Zinf (MP3 player for 
Windows) went from 10% CPU usage to 1%!  I then went in an bumped the 
bus speed from 133 MHz to 146 MHz (10% increase) and measured an exact 
10% drop in my compile/build/package time from 120 minutes to 108 minutes.

I know that my board supports at least a 1.33 GHz Athlon, and I think it 
can support the 1.4 GHz as well (both are 133 MHz FSB with DDR).  I have 
seen the 1.33 GHz's Athlons still on sale for around $30 and was 
thinking that if anyone has retired either of these chips then I could 
get around another 15% performance improvement from spare parts that 
aren't doing any good.

So, does anyone have one of these chips?  Please email privately if you 
would be willing to mail it to me in return for more frequent Cygwin/X 
releases.  ;)

Harold

Okay, how about an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ to 2100+ with Palomino core?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Hmm... no one seems to have the old Athlon 1.33 or 1.4's lying around. 
Oddly enough, they are selling for more on eBay than used Athlon XP chips.

Which brings me to my next point: I just discovered that I could 
actually use any of the AMD Athlon XP 1600+ to 2100+ chips that use the 
Palomino core with my current Iwill KA266 motherboard (though specs 
claim it only works with standard Athlon's up to 1.4 GHz).  Note that 
the Thoroughbred cores are also available in speeds matching those of 
the Palomino from 1600+ to 2100+, but the Thoroughbred cores will not 
POST with this motherboard.

I checked eBay and pricewatch and found the  1600+ Palomino's are 
selling used (eBay) for $15 and new (pricewatch) for $34 while the 2100+ 
Palomino are selling used for $40 and new for $50.

I am asking if anyone has one of these Palomino core chips that they 
have retired to their parts graveyard.  If so, please allow me to take 
it off of your hands if you do not intend to sell it.  This faster chip 
should help cut my build time another 30% or so, which will allow me to 
get more actual work done on Cygwin/X instead of waiting for compiles to 
finish.  Be aware that this is the only wife-approved processor upgrade 
that I can get at the moment, especially after the case and RAM that I 
bought.  :)

Thanks in advance,

Harold

P.S. I will post publicly if someone arranges to send me a chip off 
list, so you can know that I have not been offered a chip until you see 
a followup in the mailing list.