I've got some unpleseant news for you. Diamonds are in fact not precious stones. DeBeers has created an ARTIFICIAL market and demand for what was once considered an industrial material. Do some research.
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Ran memtest and it came up clean. Just to be extra safe I raised all the timings.
I then started bumping up Vcore:
At 1.65V Prime95 halts after less than one second.
1.7V ran for about one minute.
1.725V also ran for about one minute.
1.75V ran for 12 minutes, minimum Vcore was 1.71V...
BACKGROUND:
Just upgraded my CPU from a 1.4GHz Thunderbird to a 3200+ Barton. At 2.2GHz Prime95 fails almost immediately with a rounding error. I bumped Vcore from 1.65V to 1.675V and Prime95 ran a few seconds longer. When I lowered the multiplier one notch, from 11.0 to 10.5, it ran for a few...
Is this thread, that you started, not political in its intent? Look at the subject 'Hot Deal for Conservatives'.
I also noticed how you didn't order a poster to 'keep your comments to P&N' until a comment was made that you didn't like. Nice.
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