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najames

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Posted elsewhere....

I bought one of these CPUs several months back for an old socket7 Shuttle HOT567 board with an Intel TX430 chipset, replacing a Pentium 200MMX. As I recall the trick, which works on many different brands of boards, was to set the multiplier to 2x and the board will actually boot at 6x, needs a relatively close voltage too but not real picky. You can set the bus to run at 75 (or 83mhz possibly) and you have a 6x75=450mhz box (or 6x83=498) at least likey. This CPU with Libranet Linux is a decent web surfer and I can listen to music at the same time with a MadMutt feebie soundcard. It took about an hour to install linux and it is a very slick desktop, think menus, less command line. This would also make a decent little server, router or something. That CPU might have more use than you think.

By the way the price was up to $20 and they are sold out it looks like!!
 

Jadugar

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Well, I ordered it as well, I actually can use the K6-2 processor. Anyone know if this one requires a heatsink/fan? I have a couple of old computers that can use this as an upgrade so I'll have to choose which computer gets an upgrade.
 

cirthix

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if someone dosent want their cpu, i have a bunch of ss7 boards waiting to be populated. shipping will be about 50c in a letter envolope, so... maybe a pure freebie for me... anyone? pm plz
 

AnyMal

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Originally posted by: cirthix
if someone dosent want their cpu, i have a bunch of ss7 boards waiting to be populated. shipping will be about 50c in a letter envolope, so... maybe a pure freebie for me... anyone? pm plz

I'll sell you mine for $5.00 + s/h. Sorry, no freebies.
 

Tylanner

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I got in on this deal, but my Farcry DVD arrived and I noticed it had wave-like scratches in it..Doesn't work, stops halfway through install with error :(

This deal bit me in the azz, $20 for shat CPU and a defective, non-exchangable game....first time newegg has let me down.
 

Ka0t1x

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Did that to me.. I removed the cd when I got the error and put it back in and hit Retry.. works for me..
 

Ka0t1x

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If anything you have a 100% Legit CDKey, just borrow someone's copy and use that..