Tom's New Video for Overclocking XPs. Anyone gonna do it?

[AGodspeed]

I've read this and the 13 new Athlon motherboards review today and I'm thoroughly disappointed with that site.

You're not the only one. I've gotten more dissapointed with THG most every day now. I remember it was just yesterday that THG was voted as the "#1" hardware site to visit by the likes of PCMAG, PCWORLD, etc. I can now go to these same websites and see that they don't a 180 and gone with Anand, which IMO, was a smart move. 🙂

Anyone else getting his book? 🙂

 

[Ionizer86]

BTW, just wondering if conductive ink works across superglue. I have a warranty (3 year; boxed CPU) on my 1600+ (still waiting for a mobo) so I will leave it intact for a while. But once I decide to thrash my warranty, I'm gonna unlock it. I need to know if I really need the silver lacquer stuff. If conductive ink works, then I'll just borrow a friend's. I've got krazy glue 😀

 

[|TOAST|]

Ya I don't get it... I think most of those KT266A and nForce boards he reviewed had numbers that in no way correlated to the article. It seems to me you just plain get the next generation of performance out of the latest Athlon boards. The small difference between the boards in almost all of the benchmarks and numbers were in no way noticeable compared to the jumps in performance by just choosing to get an Athlon XP with a quality nForce/KT266A board. He overstated fanatically everything in that article and as is pointed out by Guilty in this thread even blatantly made errors in his reading the numbers (if he's such a guru how come he can't interpret/read numbers that don't lie?). I think Tom's missed the point. It's just great that now you can have so many stable solutions and options for the Athlon platform. If you have the peripherals (sound card, video card, NIC card, etc.) you can get the same performance with a board at $80+ (depending on extras like RAID) or you can get a whole new outfit for $180+ that includes all those cards. Just my $0.02

[edit]Ya I'd like to get that book for the Holidays!! 😉[/edit]

 

[Jiggz]

If you don't want to do the job then you have to pay for it. Either get someone to do it for you for a fee or get an already finish product. Athlon MP. Identical with the XP in performance but totally unlock by default and capable of dual cpu setup by design.