Notebook A64

[JohnB299]

I plan on purchasing a A64 3400 and the Asus K8N-E board and i have a quick question. On newegg they have the A64 3400's running at 2.4 w/ 512k L2 (NewCastle core), and a "notebook" version that runs at 2.2 w/ 1mb L2 (Clawhammer core). My question is... is it possible to run the notebook version in a desktop mobo to take advantage of the L2 and just OC it to 2.4 or just stick with the 3400 for desktop??

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[o1die]

The asus board might work fine with them, but I see no real advantage to using a cpu that's crippled with lower speed to begin with. They don't overclock as well as the mobile xp's. You pay more for them and don't get a 3 year warranty.

 

[endyen]

The A64s seem to loose OC headroom without the heat spreader. Stick with the newcastle, or get a standard clawhammer core, if you can find one.