Cant decide what cpu to buy? enter here..

[accord 4 me]

http://lowyat.isentral.com/guides/athlonxp/

athlon xp 1700...follow that guide and you'll have that baby clocked to a 3100 with air cooling

very awesome indeed

check out this thread for proof...

http://bbs.pcstats.com/amdzone/messa...threadid=67069

[accord 4 me]

hmm..nobody wants a 300 dollar process for 50ish? weird..lol

[Phatcivic]

Originally posted by accord 4 me
hmm..nobody wants a 300 dollar process for 50ish? weird..lol

u have it for sale? Also if you sell it for 30 bucks ill take it, since its used and new it sells for 70 if not less

[accord 4 me]

Originally posted by Phatcivic
u have it for sale? Also if you sell it for 30 bucks ill take it, since its used and new it sells for 70 if not less

nah i'm not sellin it foo

you can pick up a 1700 for 45 bucks now..and if you follow that guide,you can find the right kind of 1700..the one that overclocks to a 3100 or higher..with just air cooling ...just letting people know they dont have to spend lots of cash to get a fast computer

later

[fliplyricist1]

Originally posted by accord 4 me
http://lowyat.isentral.com/guides/athlonxp/

athlon xp 1700...follow that guide and you'll have that baby clocked to a 3100 with air cooling

very awesome indeed

check out this thread for proof...

http://bbs.pcstats.com/amdzone/messa...threadid=67069

Yeah Thoroughbred B's are the best thing since the ol school celeron 366's...

But yeah, the average overclock I've seen on them on good air cooling is 2400+. Anything above that is pretty much a praying game, and pushing the core voltage up over 1.8v is just asking for trouble, and in my opinion not worh the risk. You're also talking about 220+ bus speeds, so quality of RAM starts to become your second enemy. Not too many ram modules can do that without extreme heatsinks and awesome case cooling.

Granted, there will always be those freak monsters that will clock to 2.2ghz, but those are like in the upper .05 percentile of the batch runs.

Processor overclocking is always a shot in the dark. But the B's seem to be very good proven overclockers, and I'mma get me one from newegg for ~50 bucks pretty soon here. I'll post my results when I get them.

[Phatcivic]

Another big thing people forget is that instead of frying the chip the board will fry instead.

[accord 4 me]

the board most seem to be using is the 8rda+ and they're using pc3200 ram to get the 400mhz fsb...or high quality pc2700...i've seen around 20 diff people getting exactly what that site says is possible...

so you may be seeing that people are only getting so high because they have the wrong motherboard...the chip can only go as far as the mobo and ram will let it lol

[stackz]

Originally posted by fliplyricist1
Yeah Thoroughbred B's are the best thing since the ol school celeron 366's...

Processor overclocking is always a shot in the dark. But the B's seem to be very good proven overclockers, and I'mma get me one from newegg for ~50 bucks pretty soon here. I'll post my results when I get them.

you mean the 366a's right??

as for these...I'm running one of them right now...took me 3 months research to figure out the difference and I'm happy to say I've got a "3rd gen" chip running at th 3100 specs (barely lol...I still had to use a bigger heat sink to keep heat down and computer from locking regardless of what the guy says haha)...it runs like a fucking BEAST...it's unbelievable for what I paid...though I did fry my first one trying to clock it haha...oh well, live and learn :

but yeah, it's awesome for the price...except that I've had to go with ball-bearing power supply and cpu fan for more money since I HAVE to leave a panel off for added cooling...

[Richie V6]

How do you find the right chip, do you just order it and hope for the best?