Hi, I am building a retro PC with an Athlon Slot A, and I am looking for a Goldfinger Device GFD for oveclocking the CPU.
If it happens to have a spare one or to know where I can find one, please let me know.
Thanks, vm
Goldfinger device for Athlon Slot A
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vm_retro
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Welcome!
I don't have a Goldfinger Device but you can overclock without that. GFDs are very rare.
You only need soldering- tools and skills.
Look at this german site: https://www.ocinside.de/workshop/athlonresistors_d/
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Thanks, will give it a read and consider it
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I found a GFD at ebay.de. The seller accept shipping only to germany and austria, maybe international shipping if you contact him.?
Ebay Link: [Click here].
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And? Won you the auction? Or you want to overclock without GFD?
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Yup, thanks for the tip. I might have a spare Athlon processor now, as I also got a Slot A TBird 1Ghz to play with
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Attention, the t-bird 1gig is very rare. He has enough power when you using the right vga. I wouldn't overclock this cpu. The chance to destroy this cpu by oc is high. Of course it would be nice, if you share your oc-experience here (with other slot a cpus).
Edit: If you are interested, here my slot a system. [Link].
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Overclocking is possible through raising the FSB. Overclocking via FSB is very limited on Slot A. If you're using a Goldfinger Device you are able to set a 10.5x multiplier, but there's no known mainboard supporting it, so you shouldn't open the CPU.
I had my 1 GHz TBird maxed out at 1,18 GHz, since everything about 118 MHz FSB was unstable...
For using it with Voodoo 5 it would be a really good choice.
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No intention to overclock the 1Ghz TBird with GFD (too precious, maybe raising FSB if motherboard allows it). GFD experimentation planned with 700Mhz TBird to see how far it goes
Avenger cool slot A system you have. Mine would be Asus K7M, TBird 1GHz, Thermaltake Golden Orb, RAM TBC, Voodoo 4 4500 AGP or PCI (to be found yet). Will share some pics once I get a chance - but with some parts yet to be sourced, will take a while.
By the way, for Voodoo 4 4500 - does it worth to get the AGP version over the PCI one? I am a bit of a noob on this.
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By the way, for Voodoo 4 4500 - does it worth to get the AGP version over the PCI one? I am a bit of a noob on this.
The agp bus is exclusive, there are no sharing with other devices. Therefore i prefer the agp version and the pci version is rare as the agp one.
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V4 4500 AGP would be the way to fly, it has AGP x4 support as well, pretty much the best single chip 3dfx card to use.
V55500's have two VSA-100 chips you can always disable one but these cards are in signel chip slightly slower than V4 4500 AGPs as they lack AGP x4 support they use AGP x2. with a 66Mhz Bus instead of 133Mhz as AGP x4 does use. -
Gold Leader - V4 4500 AGP will be then, thanks for the tip
Ah no worries if you have a V4 4500 AGP and a PCI use the AGP model it's just the better card.