Finally....AMD *officially* releases the Geode

jimveta · Post by **jimveta** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 3:35 pm

Just saw that Fry's is now selling GQ systems with Geode NXs.
item #4714029: GQ3151 mATX, Geode NX 1750, Linspire 5.0, $199

From what I understand and as have been mentioned before, the NX series are just low powered Athlon XPs, but mobos must detect the voltage correctly.
See: http://fab51.com/mobile/tbred/geode_nx-e12.html

mb2 · Post by **mb2** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:24 pm

the 1750 geodes are also available with a PC-chips mobo (as lowpowcomputing has) at ebuyer! ..think i may get me one..

Mariner · Post by **Mariner** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:42 am

mb2 wrote:the 1750 geodes are also available with a PC-chips mobo (as lowpowcomputing has) at ebuyer! ..think i may get me one..

Very interesting.

Let us know how you get on if you do buy one of these.

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:51 am

the 1750 geodes are also available with a PC-chips mobo

Also at Savastore.co.uk

Apparently these things only put out 14W of heat!!!

AMD Link

Can anyone confirm this?

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:00 am

mb2 wrote:the 1750 geodes are also available with a PC-chips mobo (as lowpowcomputing has) at ebuyer! ..think i may get me one..

Oh gods. I've had the questionable pleasure of owning a system based around another specialized PCChips motherboard. Mine had a mPGA-563 socket and came as a bundle with an XP-M. There was no way in hell I could get it to be Folding stable, and the BIOS had no voltage or multiplier control for the CPU whatsoever.

Of course, it's possible there was a PBKAC, or I got a dud... But I wouldn't recommend PCChips to anyone.

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:06 am

it's possible there was a PBKAC,

PBKAC?

I wouldn't recommend PCChips to anyone.

You are probably right. Lowpowercomputing was complaining in his Geode thread in General Gallery that the PCChips mobo was cooking his Geode at 1.4V instead of 1.25V and of course no voltage options. I don't know of any PC Chips boards that allow Vcore adjustments.

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:15 am

jaganath wrote:PBKAC?

Double click on word.
Right click on now selected word.
Click on: Search Web for "..."

Result: http://www.google.co.uk/search?lr=&ie=U ... -8&q=PBKAC

Did I mention I really like Firefox

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:44 am

Tibors wrote:
jaganath wrote:PBKAC?
Double click on word.
Right click on now selected word.
Click on: Search Web for "..."

Result: http://www.google.co.uk/search?lr=&ie=U ... -8&q=PBKAC

Did I mention I really like Firefox

Double click on word.
Select "Search" from menu that pops up.

Result: http://www.google.com/search?client=ope ... 8&oe=utf-8

Did I mention I really like Opera?

One click less.

shadestalker · Post by **shadestalker** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:51 am

Directron has a Geode NX 1750 MB / CPU combo

http://www.directron.com/directron/m7vig4comb29.html

Ironically, they picture it with a big heatsink and fan.

mb2 · Post by **mb2** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:37 am

just to correct myself, its not the same mobo (at ebuyer and savastore) as lowpowercomputing.. its an M848A..

and, the geode is a 'mobile' chip so the 1.25v it wants corresponds with the coding for a 1.4v desktop chip.. see jimveta's link.

I've had the questionable pleasure of owning a system based around another specialized PCChips motherboard.

this one, AFAIK, isn't atall speciallized.. (is it??) its just a SoA board.. (props to them for having an mPGA-563 socket board in the first place thou)
funny they don't sell them separately atall?.. i guess perhaps everywhere just has some SoA boards they want to ditch?

ha, i have that heatsink.. i reckon it might handle the thing (truely) passively.
it may be quite big, but also very cheap

i really want to be able to run this thing at 1.05v and 1000mhz (which is one of its P-states).. 6w typical (compared to the 14w typical at stock) and 9w maximum!

these things would be brilliant for doubleing battery life of old SoA laptops..