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Budget Overclocker

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akshayt

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Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.
 
I am not doing an upgrade. I need the hardware on behalf of my school for a school overclocking competition.
Please suggest CPU + MB in not more than 150$.
 
Get a 2.0 celeron and a foxcon mobo... problem solved? Sometimes I think you WANT your topics to turn into flame fests... 😀
 
pentium D 805 + whatever mobo with some corsair ram?

how about just overclocking your own system? those socket 939s are good overclockers.

but WAIT YOUR X1900 SUCKS. IT REALLY DOES.
 
Originally posted by: secretanchitman
how about just overclocking your own system? those socket 939s are good overclockers.
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You'd think, but he doesn't know how to to OC, in spite of plagiarizing others' OCing guides to write his own.

Last time i tried helping him, he ignored my recommendations for using RAM dividers & then continued to rage on how he couldn't OC worth crap :roll:
 
Any good overclockable socket AM2 motherboard for under $100.

Socket AM2 Sempron with 8x multiplier such as 2800+ (Club IT had it for $41) or 3000+.

Originally posted by: gersson
Get a 2.0 celeron and a foxcon mobo... problem solved? Sometimes I think you WANT your topics to turn into flame fests... 😀
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Actually how about a Celeron D 310? That should have a small enough multiplier - heck, may even score a 100% overclock! Stock speed is around 2.13GHz on 533MHz FSB. OOS, but only $35 shipped OEM. Needs a good cheap HSF. Too bad not socket LGA 775 as those boards are probably better because of high FSB requirements of the new chips. Perhaps this $57 Asus board for overclocking, though there are almost no socket 478 boards left on the market. Can pre-test at 800MHz FSB and then pin mod that chip for 3.2GHz "stock" speeds, then push it up from there, though don't know how high that board can go - no more good 865PE chipset boards left.

EDIT: HAHA, Club IT as one word is banned. WTF, they didn't buy enough advertising last month from here?
 
What is with everyone saying the X1900 is crap? I hope you guys are joking 😕 or you must be a bunch of nvidia fanboys....
 
or you can get one of the 754 and OC up 50%+. But if you got matched DDR, I'd go with a nice OC board 939 with a cheap CPU like A64 3400+ or something cheap. Oc up 25-50% and you all set.
 
Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
What is with everyone saying the X1900 is crap? I hope you guys are joking 😕 or you must be a bunch of nvidia fanboys....
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You obviously missed the OP's infamous thread about the X1900XTX being CRAP. When it actually was the OP who was full of crap.
 
Originally posted by: akshayt
Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.
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but you're the master overclocker...you should already know the answer to this.
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: akshayt
Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.
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but you're the master overclocker...you should already know the answer to this.
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this may be a test and the one who passes will become his new student in the arts of overclocking..

btw: what the heck is a school overclocking competition?

 
Mobile Celeron + s478 motherboard. A 2.0GHz mobile can be made to go to 3.2GHz.
 
Heh, I had a mobile Celeron 1.6 at 3.2GHz. Not 100% stable, but it worked. Stability issue may have been motherboard because it was an 845PE chipset board with bulging caps. 😱 Board was designed for 400/533MHz FSB and I was pushing 800MHz.

Wonder what happened to that board anyways. Last I know, Galvanized Yankee had it.
 
Originally posted by: Zap
Heh, I had a mobile Celeron 1.6 at 3.2GHz. Not 100% stable, but it worked. Stability issue may have been motherboard because it was an 845PE chipset board with bulging caps. 😱 Board was designed for 400/533MHz FSB and I was pushing 800MHz.

Wonder what happened to that board anyways. Last I know, Galvanized Yankee had it.
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I had my previous s478 motherboard go bad because of bad caps - I was pretty pissed. A cheap Shuttle board was the replacement for my 1.5GHz P4 🙂
 
Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: akshayt
Hi

I am on a very tight budget, I need a highly overclockable system which may or may not be the best performance for money hardware.

Please suggest me a good CPU + Mobo in sub 150$, which can achieve atleast 20-30% overclocks at stock cooling with value RAM. I am open to S939 as well.

The motherboard should either be from Asus, or Gigabyte or MSI.
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but you're the master overclocker...you should already know the answer to this.
Click to expand...

this may be a test and the one who passes will become his new student in the arts of overclocking..

btw: what the heck is a school overclocking competition?
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LOL!

just a pity for him that most ATer's have long past Akshayt(pronounced "ASSHAT") feeble overclocking skills.

what made me laugh the most is the fact that he was bragging and wrote a blog on how he got a "whooping" 2.4ghz out of his 3200+

I was pissed off that I only got 2.87ghz@1.55v out of my 3000+ skt 754...I blame my piddly little thermaltake water cooling kit.
 
Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
this may be a test and the one who passes will become his new student in the arts of overclocking..

btw: what the heck is a school overclocking competition?
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It does sound a lot like BS doesn't it.
 
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