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You know that AMD Athlon 200GE with no multiplier ... does have a multiplier on specific MSI motherboards
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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#5612828 Posted on: 12/03/2018 11:07 AM
Regarding other vendors :
Did you tried to rename "mcupdate_AuthenticAMD.dll" ? windows 10 sometimes disabled Intel overclocking in windows and renaming "mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll" fixed it.
Regarding other vendors :
Did you tried to rename "mcupdate_AuthenticAMD.dll" ? windows 10 sometimes disabled Intel overclocking in windows and renaming "mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll" fixed it.
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#5612947 Posted on: 12/03/2018 04:38 PM
The locked multiplier stopped me from buying one
The locked multiplier stopped me from buying one
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#5612954 Posted on: 12/03/2018 04:45 PM
Why not get the 2200G instead? Sure, it's nearly double the price, but it's substantially better in nearly every way (including the fact you can OC it). I'd argue it's a better value. The 200GE may have a better TDP, but you'd throw that away once you OC it.
The locked multiplier stopped me from buying one
Why not get the 2200G instead? Sure, it's nearly double the price, but it's substantially better in nearly every way (including the fact you can OC it). I'd argue it's a better value. The 200GE may have a better TDP, but you'd throw that away once you OC it.
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#5613064 Posted on: 12/03/2018 06:40 PM
Athlon 200GE is the new G3258.
Athlon 200GE is the new G3258.
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Ah, the software level limitations, never happened before and yet there it is again!