You know that AMD Athlon 200GE with no multiplier ... does have a multiplier on specific MSI motherboards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/03/2018 10:00 AM | source: tomshardware | 16 comment(s)

Interesting, a month ago AMD released the Athlon 200GE, an entry-level two cores processor running 3200 MHz released with a locked multiplier. As it turns out, the multiplier seems to be configurable by the motherboard BIOS, and with some MSI motherboards, that MP actually kicks in as configurable.

On youtube video about their findings on an Athlon 200GE that was overclocked already have been spotted, Toms Hardware as well used MSI motherboards with the new AGESA 1.0.0.6 bios. With that enable multiplier it was manageable to get a proper 3.9 GHz out of the two cores at a voltage of 1.4 volts. Athlon 200GE, by the way, has two cores and four threads.

Screenshot: Tom's Hardware

This, what seems to be a BIOS misconfiguration is certainly not some AMD will allow, and seems to be an error in the MSI bios. So do not expect this functionality with other motherboard manufacturers, and if you plan to purchase an AMD Athlon 200GE, now would be a good time to grab the BIOS and save it locally ;) as MSI will not offer support for this in the future we expect.

Once tweaked Athlon 200GE scored about 20 percent higher after the overclock was applied, and that is serious stuff for a 55 EUR/USD costing processor.

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rl66
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#5613797 Posted on: 12/05/2018 12:28 PM

Multiplier settings on a320 boards generally does nothing, even if these are present. They often reuse bioses from b350 boards without removing the OC settings, but it does not work.

To have seen a 1600X on the board i can tell it was working on his A320... same on my H81 that i use with my PA @ 4,4, the only limit in my case is the 1600mhz on the DDR3 and CPU voltage.

Anyway the best G200 argument is the TDP not the OC, you can have the complete rig in passive cooling

(it's for that i need one, but no more in stock until january in here)

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