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the sonata psu is good, i'm running at 1.8V completely stable. and no tech the bartons do not need to be multiplier unlocked as long as you are using them with an nforce2 board i believe.
 
I just ordered a 2500XP Barton RETAIL from Newegg. It, along with a new Seasonic Power supply from SVC, and a new $99 Lian Li case from Directron. SADLY the case will not be shipping for another week (sob.) So my question is, currently I have a 1900XP+ in a Truepower case and an Abit NF7-S 2.0. It's got one of those obese copper coolers on it, which was a waste as it won't overclock to save my life even by upping the voltage...well it goes up to 140mhz (hehe.) Anyway, when this processor arrives can I easily take the old processor out without unbolting this obese SLK8 or whatever it is that is in there now with the 4 bolts to the motherboard? I can't picture how I installed it. I don't want to pull out the motherboard as I'd have to turn around and do it again to move the processor to the new case and it's a pain in the buttocks.
 
Ive heard retail is better but I think thats all hogwash. Its random and you know it. If you flip a coin 10 times and its heads 6 times and tails 4, heads doesnt have a better chance of coming up than tails. Its random. You cannot control where your chip comes from. Buy oem and pay less. I think someone should start a site where they but chips, test speeds and package them and charge a premium. This way you can buy super low voltage chips for like 600 😛
 
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There were dozens of businesses that came and left with the Celeron 300@450 craze. Some of those guys are, in fact, still around such as PCNUT
 
My Newegg Retail week 27 will not behave like a 3200 even at 1.9v. Prime 95 crashes within 10 minutes. I'm using an NF7-S 2.0 and Kingston Hyperx 3500 1 gig. I went to Best Buy and picked up a 430 watt Truepower just to eliminate the power supply as a possibility.

I'm considering putting that huge copper heatsink I have off my 1900XP that would not overclock on it, but that involves once again removing the motherboard.

I'm MR UNLUCKY. I had a 300mhz Celeron that would not overclock to 450. I bet you didn't think that there was a 300 Celery that didn't hit 450 did you? Well I had one. My second one worked fine. I also have a 9700 Pro that does not overclock so well either, it does about 3% over stock.

LOUD SIGH
 
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