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My first rig ever was a Barton 2500+ and a Gigabyte NF7 motherboard. It even had an option to auto-set the processor to 3200+, it was awesome
I remember when my friend told me to try it, I didn't believe him. I didn't think there was any way you could just buy a cheap processor and magically transform it into a more expensive one.
I remember when my friend told me to try it, I didn't believe him. I didn't think there was any way you could just buy a cheap processor and magically transform it into a more expensive one.
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overclocking is great!
i think the first chip i clocked was a K62 300 to 450 lol... and then i later picked up a K63 450 and clocked it to 550 back in the day of dipswitches! lol...
then came the illustrious cellery 300's that could do 600 or something crazy.... and then the coppermines and thunderbirds...i think i had a coppermine 866 @ ~1.4GHz, and that was probably the most impressive clock i ever had considering chips didnt clock like crazy like they do now.... then i went to AXP's.... think i mentioned that one earlier... and then came the amazing Pentium 4 Northwood.... i took one of those from 2.4GHz all the way to 3.5GHz rock stable 24/7...it would do like 3.65 but get hot enough to cook on lol....
now im still stuck on my Presler 930D... it's no core2, but it went all the way to 3.7, and only the newish vid cards out even now will make it the bottleneck... im holding out as long as i can to upgrade.... even though the mid range c2q's are looking really nice, and im starting to get use to my machines speed...it doesnt wow me anymore...
Cdubneeddeal
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Man..stop talking about T-breds, Bartons, and the trusty NF7 lineup. I'm starting to miss my Abit, 2500 barton @ 3200, softmodded 9500, First SATA drive, SB Audigy, etc. The good ol days.
CrackRabbit
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postmortemIA
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Capt Caveman
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frostedflakes
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If you just want a cheap CPU and don't need the extra performance that Intel offers, AMD is a great choice. I picked up my X2 because at the time the cheapest C2D was about twice as expensive, and I do pretty basic stuff w/my PC, so I couldn't justify spending $200+ for processing power I wouldn't use. I only really wanted dual-core for multitasking.
Not to mention 780G is far superior to any currently available Intel chipset for HTPC usage.
They have their advantages. As with anything else, it depends on what you want to use it for. Obviously gaming and overclocking goes to Intel.
postmortemIA
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frostedflakes
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i did go to jail for 15 days again, thats why i havent been around... getting all my shit taken care of... i have one more thing i need to take care of, but i think i'll be able to stay out of jail for that one.
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also, winamp + asio plugin + asio drivers for a decent sound card cant be beat audio wise...fubar is great too...i just prefer winamp...
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