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A gift from a friend......

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jc9970

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Well, a buddy of mines gave me a 3.0e (socket 478) presshott, since he's no longer using it. And before throwing it away, I decided that I could use it for a personal file server. Anyhow, I'm in search for a good motherboard that would overclock the crap outta this processor (to make the processor useful) .

Any recommendations?

 
Originally posted by: jc9970
Well, a buddy of mines gave me a 3.0e (socket 478) presshott, since he's no longer using it. And before throwing it away, I decided that I could use it for a personal file server. Anyhow, I'm in search for a good motherboard that would overclock the crap outta this processor (to make the processor useful) .

Any recommendations?
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1st question: "throw it away"?
2nd question: "to make the processor useful"??

Granted, it's not the greatest gaming processor in the world but for ANYTHING else it's waaay more than enough.. ESPECIALLY for a fileserver. - and you wanna overclock a file server?? that's definitely one of the more asinine ideas I've heard on this board.
 
Well, I'll overclock anything I can get my hands on. Sickness? Anyhow, I'm not going to be storing any important data on it, mostly pr0n. The overclocking part, is mostly for fun.
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Asus P4P800 is what I used to take my 2.8E to 3.5ghz, P4C800 is good as well. Abit IC7.
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Sweet, I heard good stuff about the P4C800, might go with that one. Thanks a ton.
 
Originally posted by: ValuedCustomer
Originally posted by: jc9970
Well, a buddy of mines gave me a 3.0e (socket 478) presshott, since he's no longer using it. And before throwing it away, I decided that I could use it for a personal file server. Anyhow, I'm in search for a good motherboard that would overclock the crap outta this processor (to make the processor useful) .

Any recommendations?
Click to expand...
1st question: "throw it away"?
2nd question: "to make the processor useful"??

Granted, it's not the greatest gaming processor in the world but for ANYTHING else it's waaay more than enough.. ESPECIALLY for a fileserver. - and you wanna overclock a file server?? that's definitely one of the more asinine ideas I've heard on this board.
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These processors still sell for around $180 (new). Don't sell it short, it is still a very good processor. If you don't want it, put it up for sale. You would probably get some good cash for it.

 
I've got the same chip, for the $150 I paid for it it's still a damn good one for multitasking in dreamweaver and photoshop and midrange gaming.

I'm using the asus P4P800 SE, running 3.3 ghz @ 1:1 1.4v, idles at 35c, load at 47c.

I've gotten it up to 3.9 @ 5:4 1.475v but wouldn't run stable with my heatsink. I'm installing a new one this week to see if I can get it stable. Stable at 3.6.

This is a great board. Had a 1.8 in it for a while and ran it at 2.4 with no problems. You should be able to reach a 33% overclock with the right cooling on most sock478 P4's.

-z
 
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