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First post, by marxveix

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Why now they dont make CPU sockets similar for laptops and desktops? I would love to continue my trend with AMD Mobile CPU-s @ PCs. Have made AMD K6 Mobile, AMD K7 Mobile, AMD K8 Mobile @ Tower PCs and i would like to add to my collection K10 or newer, but no real options. I see very low AM3 Athlon CPUs 170U / 270U, but no faster Mobile CPU-s available for AM2/AM2+/AM3 and i see only newer lower part AM1 socket cpus. SS7 there is K6-II+/III+, K7 has Athlon XP-M versions up to 2.2GHz and for S754 we have Turion64 up to 2.4GHz with Turion64 ML-44. Yes there are newer AMD Energy Efficent Desktop CPU-s, but they are mostly 45W/65W out of the box and i like to use more up to 25W Mobile CPU-s if possible, max 35W.

PC1 K6Mobile (SS7)
AMD Mobile K6 266MHz (K6/266ADZ) (Max 9.8W)
Socket7 + Coolermaster Fan 60x60@5V
Aopen AX59 PRO Rev 1.04 (Latest bios 2.36)
1x256MB PC133 CL3 SDRAM-Double Sided (Infineon)
SAMSUNG Spinpoint MP0402H 40GB 5400RPM 8MB 2.5" IDE
Matrox Millennium G200A 8MB AGP (Max 4W)
Diamond Monster 3D 4MB PCI (3Dfx Voodoo)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA (CT4520)
Nec 1.44MB (FD1231H)
NEC DVDRW ND-3540A
Retro ATX - 300W PSU

PC2 K7Mobile (Socket A)
AMD Geode NX 1750+/Mobile Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4GHz (Max 25w)
Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 3 (Copper Lite)
AsRock K7S41GX socket A Rev v1.04 (Halt@Idle enabled bios)
Hynix 1x1GB DDR PC3200 CL3
Seagate Momentus 5400.3 ST9160821A 160GB 5400RPM 8MB ATA100 2.5"
Club 3D AMD/ATi HD3450 512MB DDR2
Integrated 5.1CH C-Media CMI9739A
Hitachi/LG Slim GSA-T40N 8x DVD±RW DL
300W Fortron FSP300-50GMN 80+
Coolermaster N200 MATX

PC3 K8Mobile (Socket 754)
AMD Turion 64 Mobile (MT-34) 1800MHz/512Kb (Max 24W)
K8 CoolerMaster Hiper MC (ECC-00126-01)
CoolerMaster Fan 70x70@5v (+WEN93626)
Asrock K8NF4G-VSTA (Socket 754)
Apacer 1x1GB DDR PC3200 CL3
Corsair Force LS SSD 60GB (CSSD-F60GBLSB)
MSI GeForce GT 720 1GB DDR3 Fanless Edition (Max 19W)
Integrated 7.1 CH ALC883 Audio (DTS-HD-MA, Dolby TrueHD)
Samsung Slim Blu-ray Writer SN-506BB (+Lindy 40513,33608)
Akasa 3,5" Memory Card Reader + USB 2.0 (AK-ICR-03USB)
350W Fortron FSP350-60EGN 90+ 80 PLUS® Gold (+24pin->20pin)
Very Tiny MATX case

PC4 K8Mobile (AM2) - Unfinised at the moment (WIP)
AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 (15W) or Neo X2 6850e (22W)

Same CPU is inside my Asus M2A-VM motherboard and works.
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AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 AM2 CPU has 15W or 9W TDP ratings?

Lowest power consumption Mobile CPU for PC is Geode NX 1500?
It takes max 9W out of the box, but its speed is also at 1000MHz.

List of AMD Mobile CPU-s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_mobile_processors

I dont think that CPU more than 35W should be named Mobile. 😀
What AMD Mobile CPU-s have you installed and used inside PC?

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Reply 1 of 6, by rmay635703

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I used an fsb200 1.8ghz Mobile socket A tbred chip in my PCCHIPS board that never properly supported FSB266

Reply 2 of 6, by marxveix

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rmay635703 wrote on 2025-01-28, 03:42:

I used an fsb200 1.8ghz Mobile socket A tbred chip in my PCCHIPS board that never properly supported FSB266

Socket A / Socket 754 are the best AMD Socket for Mobile CPU-s, many options to choose from and has bit higher clocked CPU-s also.
Seems that for Socket AM2 we have also higher clocked options with X2 6650e and X2 6750e, but they are not even in the Wikipedia. 😀

AMD Athlon Neo X2 6650e processor 2x2.2GHz (OPN ADD6650IAA5DO or ADD6650DOBOX)
AMD Athlon Neo X2 6750e processor 2x2.3GHz (OPN ADD6750IAA5DO or ADD6750DOBOX)
AMD Athlon Neo X2 6850e processor 2x1.8GHz (OPN ADJ6850IAA5DO or ADJ6850DOBOX)
ADD = Athlon Desktop with 35 Watt TDP
ADJ = Athlon Desktop with 22 Watt TDP

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Reply 3 of 6, by Gmlb256

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I have installed an AMD K6-2+/450 CPU on a Gigabyte GA-586ATV motherboard, had some initial struggles to get it working due to issues during POST. Still have this computer but it is currently out of rotation.

VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2A @ 1.46 GHz | ASUS P2-99 | 256 MB PC133 SDRAM | GeForce2 GTS 32 MB | Voodoo2 12 MB | SBLive! | AWE64 | SBPro2 | GUS

Reply 4 of 6, by marxveix

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Gmlb256 wrote on 2025-01-28, 12:54:

I have installed an AMD K6-2+/450 CPU on a Gigabyte GA-586ATV motherboard, had some initial struggles to get it working due to issues during POST. Still have this computer but it is currently out of rotation.

From K6-II+ all works as it should for me, your motherboard is Intel 430VX, so its need bios patching or something,
maybe change motherboard and you are good to go. K6-2+ has open multiplier so very good CPU and best for S7 /
SS7 and it can be enabled 256kb, but i leave them as they are, also dos has k6init, great Retro CPU you have there.

From K6-2+/3+ i have:
AMD-K6-II+/400ATZ L2-128KB 1.6v (used with some of my benchmarks)
AMD-K6-III+/400ATZ L2-256KB 1.6v (sealed oem cpu, i have not used it)

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Reply 5 of 6, by Gmlb256

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marxveix wrote on 2025-01-28, 13:08:

From K6-II+ all works as it should for me, your motherboard is Intel 430VX, so its need bios patching or something,
maybe change motherboard and you are good to go.

I got it eventually working in an unusual way: By using an older BIOS and patching it from there as the latest one (including the modded one from Jan's website) has the POST issue with these CPUs.

K6-2+ has open multiplier so very good CPU and best for S7 / SS7 and it can be enabled 256kb, but i leave them as they are, also dos has k6init, great Retro CPU you have there.

Thanks!

I was one of the testers of K6INIT prior the significant rewrite of the utility, the performance boost that I got was great.

VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2A @ 1.46 GHz | ASUS P2-99 | 256 MB PC133 SDRAM | GeForce2 GTS 32 MB | Voodoo2 12 MB | SBLive! | AWE64 | SBPro2 | GUS

Reply 6 of 6, by marxveix

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Gmlb256 wrote:

Thanks!

I was one of the testers of K6INIT prior the significant rewrite of the utility, the performance boost that I got was great.

Mostly using K6 with Win9x, i have not made to the dos @ K6-II+ with k6init yet,
but i know its good tool and i will be using it for sure, thanks!

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