Old Palomino or new one for 1800+ overclock?

[Quetzacoatl]

I made this nice trade with a friend, I gave him my IBM 75gxp hard drive (which he's going to rma for a 120gxp mwahaha), an LG 8x4x32x Cdrw, and a stick of Pc-100 Sdram 64mb. In return, I got one of the original Athlon XP Palomino 1800+'s, brown packaging, one of the first weeks of production. The one i've been using up to now is a middle of the run Athlon XP Palomino 1800+, green packaging. Not surprisingly, they seem identical. Any ideas as to which one is a more worthy overclocker?

Instead of Rdram, why not just merge 4 Sdram channels...

 

[dUFF_Man]

Well the old one has the palamino core for sure. These were decent overclockers (like most athlons). However you have to find out what core does the other newer cpu you have has? It may be marginally better if its a tbred or tbred-b.


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[Quetzacoatl]

No, i'm positive they're both Palomino's, i'm just not sure whether the one with the new or older packaging would overclock better

Instead of Rdram, why not just merge 4 Sdram channels...

 

[Lonemagi]

Only one way to find out right?

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[Quetzacoatl]

Well, i'm hoping there's some way around doing two full sets of overclocking and benchies

Instead of Rdram, why not just merge 4 Sdram channels...

 

[svol]

Just give me the core stepping (ie: AGOIA0243)b and I will tell which one will OC best. But I would put my bet on the newest core without knowing the stepping.

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