My New Pentium D 820 Rig

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX
It may be the people are selling 820Ds on eBay if they prove to be poor overclockers.

Except most I have seen have never been opened!!!! The one I bid on was in sealed retail box....

 

[fatty4ksu]

Love you new rig. Enjoy. I'm jeoulous. 😉

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Except most I have seen have never been opened!!!! The one I bid on was in sealed retail box....

Now that is odd.

 

[Pabster]

Actually I've been seeing more Dell pulls and other OEM pulls lately. But there are Retail Box parts as well.

For the OP, Congratulations on your space heater purchase. With natural gas prices this winter, you will have an effective alternative to a conventional furnace 😀

 

[boshuter]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Wow !!! $58 motherboard ! And you got the 820D for $137 ? where ? for those prices I will try one just to tell everyone what I think ! (too much money, and not enough reason to spend it)

But Now I can be objective when I badmouth these !!

:roll: right

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Love you new rig. Enjoy. I'm jeoulous. 😉

You supposedly have an X2. Trolling again ?

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Love you new rig. Enjoy. I'm jeoulous. 😉

You supposedly have an X2. Trolling again ?

feel uncomfortable with him in this thread 🙁

hope you have "fun" with your purchase 🙂

i might get an xp-90 just to compare temps; but does anyone know if it comes w/ the socket775(t) mounts, or do you have to buy it seperate?

 

[aatf510]

I hope you don't game because I retired my 2.8GHz P4 machine more than a year ago.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: toattett
I hope you don't game because I retired my 2.8GHz P4 machine more than a year ago.

i would have kept my 3200+ S754 if i had gaming needs (i know it is much faster than this

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Love you new rig. Enjoy. I'm jeoulous. 😉

You supposedly have an X2. Trolling again ?

feel uncomfortable with him in this thread 🙁

hope you have "fun" with your purchase 🙂

i might get an xp-90 just to compare temps; but does anyone know if it comes w/ the socket775(t) mounts, or do you have to buy it seperate?

I bought it as a purely educational thing. I want to be able to speak truthfully about these cpu's, the motherboards, DDR2, etc... From my own experience, and not just reading up and taking somebodys word for it.

 

[kruull]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Love you new rig. Enjoy. I'm jeoulous. 😉

You supposedly have an X2. Trolling again ?

feel uncomfortable with him in this thread 🙁

hope you have "fun" with your purchase 🙂

i might get an xp-90 just to compare temps; but does anyone know if it comes w/ the socket775(t) mounts, or do you have to buy it seperate?

I might be mistaken but i saw versions of the xp90c selling: 1 without the mounts and 1 with them. But not sure as i saw it here (Slovakia)

 

[Pohemi]

Wow...you got a heck of a deal on that chip (and board too). I'm thinking about getting one (I've always been an AMD boy too). Through a special promotion by Intel for employees of certain retail locations, they're offering the Pentium D 820, the Intel D945PSN board, Windows XP Pro, and two Adobe programs for only $215...hard to pass that up 😉 Hope I can be satisfied with my first Intel box for a while, lol.

 

[Zebo]

LOL Great thread🙂 I love cheap high performance and you hit jackpot! But was a frekken $48 HSF really nessesary to hit 3.2?

(oh and BTW a 3800+ beats the 840XE in majority of benchmarks😀)

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Zebo
LOL Great thread🙂 I love cheap high performance and you hit jackpot! But was a frekken $48 HSF really nessesary to hit 3.2?

(oh and BTW a 3800+ beats the 840XE in majority of benchmarks😀)

Yup ! And yes, my 3800+ creams it ar 3.43 ghz !

 

[AkumaX]

holy thread resurrection!

Zeb, bought that HSF for piece of mind w/ temps (it turns out the Sonic Tower I got does 44c idle, 56c load anyway). The board is the one that can't o/c. There's no vcore adjust, and i don't know anyone that owns this board (including reviewers) that got over 228fsb on any cpu!

Well, if you look at it short term, i got about 60% performance of a 3800+ at about 60% of the price 😉. i still feel really bad using all this electricity... such horrible power usage/performance ratio really irks me...

 

[tvdang7]

lol dang....dont pay the money and upgrade to an x2 but build a whole new rig?!?!?!...owell looks nice have fun

 

[Furen]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
holy thread resurrection!

Heh, seriously.

Well, the motherboard is dirt cheap AND it can use DDR + dual-core, what did you expect? I must say using that motherboard and buying the CPU off ebay is the only way I'd buy a D 820 (though I dont think I will, I'll just save my pennies for socket M2).

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: tvdang7
lol dang....dont pay the money and upgrade to an x2 but build a whole new rig?!?!?!...owell looks nice have fun

opteron 165: $305
sonic tower: $48
msi neo2 plat'num: $80
============ $428

where as the same components that i got the 820:

820D: $137
sonic tower: $48
asrock 775dual-880: $65
============= $250

everything else was all stuff i basically had (using Corsair VS 2 x 512mb right now)

edit: times change, preferences change 😉 still saving $$$ for that super ultra crazy dual core amd i'm huntin' for...

 

[Powermoloch]

Congrats w/ the rig man, keep it cool !

 

[Zebo]

I wonder if you could sell that stuff for more than you paid putting you into a 165/asrock combo for same price?

Seriously you don't need a high-end HSF to OC.. I was 2460 with stock HSF before RMAing Asrock board....if you had something of value besides your sense of humor i'd send you board and CPU...cost only $363🙂

Maybe ebay your combo for a profit then get what you really wanted?

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: Zebo
I wonder if you could sell that stuff for more than you paid putting you into a 165/asrock combo for same price?

Seriously you don't need a high-end HSF to OC.. I was 2460 with stock HSF before RMAing Asrock board....if you had something of value besides your sense of humor i'd send you board and CPU...cost only $363🙂

Maybe ebay your combo for a profit then get what you really wanted?

yeah actually i was really considering doing that; there's a seller/store on ebay that's selling the same asrock hybrid board and a bare 820 as a combo for $279... i was thinking about doing that and then getting the opty 165

too much school right now, hopefully intel prices won't deflate (but maybe amd will! 😀)