Sempron 145 Unlocked!

[bigboxes]

ROFL. Who uses a PC just for email? You'd use a phone for that, and guess what, phones are dual core at least now even a frisbee Windows Phone. The OS sits there and takes cycles. A single core is good for nothing in 2015.

Stop being a douche. You are threadcrapping. The OP is talking about taking a single-core CPU and unlocking it to a dual-core. How cool is that! Yeah, not for you, but keep your negativity to yourself. Not everything has to be bleeding edge to be cool.

 

[escrow4]

Stop being a douche. You are threadcrapping. The OP is talking about taking a single-core CPU and unlocking it to a dual-core. How cool is that! Yeah, not for you, but keep your negativity to yourself. Not everything has to be bleeding edge to be cool.

When was the 145 bleeding edge? When was any single core bleeding edge?

 

[eton975]

When was the 4450e bleeding edge? When was any dual core bleeding edge?

Fixed.

Honestly, I just think it's kinda cool unlocking an old CPU and OCing it.

 

[DrMrLordX]

When was the 145 bleeding edge?

Never. To reiterate, stuff doesn't have to be bleeding edge to be cool . . .

When was any single core bleeding edge?

Hmm. April 15th, 2005, when AMD launched Venice and San Diego? Or you could go back to June 1st 2004 when they launched Newcastle (there was only a 6 day period between the San Diego launch and the launch of Manchester and Toledo x2s).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Never. To reiterate, stuff doesn't have to be bleeding edge to be cool . . .

Call me crazy (or budget-minded), but I find overclocking and unlocking a $10 CPU into a semi-competent dual-core, just as cool as overclocking a G3258 $100 combo deal to the performance of a $120 i3 CPU.

 

[DrMrLordX]

It is. I felt like the bee's knees last year when I snagged an old x2-220 carefully selected for being CACDC and unlocked it on my "ancient" 790FX motherboard to a tri-core with 6mb L3. Then it OCed to 3.9 ghz, woop woop.

It was still slow by modern standards, but heck for ~$30 shipped I couldn't complain. Grabbing a dual for $9-$10 is also awesome.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It is.
Grabbing a dual for $9-$10 is also awesome.

Then again, you can snag an E8400 on ebay for the same money. Though new 775 boards that take DDR3, are few and far between.

(I picked up a few for $40 ea, before 775 stuff dried up. Almost wish that Biostar still made them.)

 

[waltchan]

(I picked up a few for $40 ea, before 775 stuff dried up. Almost wish that Biostar still made them.)

Biostar is a mysterious brand that has seen its boom and bust. It once was a well-recognized brand with the AM3 socket, but, lately, they're now competing with ECS, Foxconn, and all the cheap brands. I wonder what happened to Biostar? Even Micro Center no longer carry any Biostar boards.

 

[bigboxes]

When was the 145 bleeding edge? When was any single core bleeding edge?

Not everything has to be bleeding edge to be cool.

Reading is fundamental.

 

[bigboxes]

Never. To reiterate, stuff doesn't have to be bleeding edge to be cool . . .



Hmm. April 15th, 2005, when AMD launched Venice and San Diego? Or you could go back to June 1st 2004 when they launched Newcastle (there was only a 6 day period between the San Diego launch and the launch of Manchester and Toledo x2s).

I had a Thunderbird single core that was really cool. I had a Winchester single core that was pretty cool. I had an X2 Toledo dual-core that was really cool. I still have them. Really. Cool.

 

[VirtualLarry]

When was the 145 bleeding edge? When was any single core bleeding edge?

And now we get to see how escrow4 feels about "bleeding edge".

4K is a stupid waste of time and money like anything that is bleeding edge and not mainstream. May be a flop like 3D. Who knows. Come back in 5yrs.

Some new sort of reverse troll?

 

[DrMrLordX]

I had a Thunderbird single core that was really cool. I had a Winchester single core that was pretty cool. I had an X2 Toledo dual-core that was really cool. I still have them. Really. Cool.

I still have a Sempron 2800+ Palermo installed with the stock hsf in a Chaintech vnf3-250 sitting around in a box somewhere. It'd probably still run if I had DDR for it (I don't). I used to run that thing at 2.32 GHz without doing a thing to vcore, that was fun. That plus my old GeForce 6800 "non-Ultra" were pretty good together, back in the day . . .