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amd xp-m

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I am pretty impressed with my P M 1.4 and wanted to know if the amd xp-m chips are any good at folding. I was thinking about building a farm of 4 or 5 low power folders, help with the cause and be energy consious at the same time :)
 
The XP-M 2500 and 2600+ are excellent folders and they overclock like crazy. My 2600+ would clock at 2.5ghz with no probs. If you can get them cheap then they are probably the best bang for the buck folders.
 
I just installed a 35w 2400+ Athlon-M. Have it running at 12.5x200 with no problems. Folding like crazy for the [H]orde
 
The XP mobiles are the same thing as the desktop Bartons except they are able to run the clock speeds they are set at at a lower voltage than the desktop Barton. The desktop Bartons run at 1.65 volts while the XP mobile Bartons run at 1.45 or 1.35 volts. They consume less juice and put out less heat at stock speeds. They generally overclock really well also.

There is no difference though like there is with the Pentium-Ms and the P4s. The two Pentiums mentioned here are totally different architectures.
 
The XP-M chips are great at folding. If you're OCing them and running them full time with folding don't expect anything noticeable in the area of power consumption though. I can't think of any downside to them (compared to regular XP's) except for the slightly higher price.
 
Are they direct drop in replacements for the normal XPs? I'm assuming that a particular board has to support the chips. Would be nice to reduce the heat output.

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Yes, drop in replacement. Just dont be freaked out when you boot up and the bios detects it as an "Unknown CPU." Just manually set the FSB and multiplier and your all set.
 
shabazkilla said:
Yes, drop in replacement. Just dont be freaked out when you boot up and the bios detects it as an "Unknown CPU." Just manually set the FSB and multiplier and your all set.
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Sweeeet!!

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