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and with the money i've saved, i bought a butt load of cds, and...

1 T925-1064 Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 For AMD Athlon XP $34.99 $34.99

1 G451-2018 Gigabyte 7VT600-1394 Socket A Motherboard $80.99 $80.99

1 U93-4908 US Modular Dual Channel 512MB PC4000 DDR 500MHz $114.99 $114.99

1 CP2-XP30004BC AV AMD Athlon XP3000+ CPU Barton Core 400FSB

I'll PM you my address, and you can ship it all round to me at your leisure.

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Originally posted by Streakfury I'll PM you my address, and you can ship it all round to me at your leisure.

haha, do it, ill send you my old stuff.

Planning on OC'ing the 3000+?

I had one and tried, didn't go as well as I'd hoped. Only had a bit of cash afterwords, so I got an OEM 2500+, and right now it's running at 3200+ speeds.

Nice though.

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Originally posted by Gholy Host Planning on OC'ing the 3000+? I had one and tried, didn't go as well as I'd hoped. Only had a bit of cash afterwords, so I got an OEM 2500+, and right now it's running at 3200+ speeds. Nice though.

yes i am planning on it, how did you go about it?

The usual. Give the cpu, RAM and chipset a tad more voltage, and then start upping the FSB by 2, starting up, making sure things are working, and then restarting and upping the FSB again.

I got it up to 3200 speeds, but it was unstable, and burned out after a week or so. The 2500+ is notorious for being a very solid little chip, and overclocking like a champ.

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Originally posted by Gholy Host The usual. Give the cpu, RAM and chipset a tad more voltage, and then start upping the FSB by 2, starting up, making sure things are working, and then restarting and upping the FSB again. I got it up to 3200 speeds, but it was unstable, and burned out after a week or so. The 2500+ is notorious for being a very solid little chip, and overclocking like a champ.

oo good to know that they burn out easy, i coulda just blown 100 bucks :-/

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Originally posted by Zenchowdah oo good to know that they burn out easy, i coulda just blown 100 bucks :-/

Lucky. Back when I did it it was 300.

If you do it, just be careful about it, and run a memory/cpu test every 25 FSB or so. I got overzealous at around 190 (380) and started upping it faster and faster and checking less and less.

But now that I think about it, I had the 3000+ 333FSB, so yours might be slightly different.

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Originally posted by Zenchowdah haha, do it, ill send you my old stuff.

Heh, what ya got??

geek talk

just kidding btw do guys overclock your video cards too ?

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Originally posted by fastmp3 geek talk just kidding btw do guys overclock your video cards too ?

yep. i overclock my hdd to 10krpm and my mouse as well. 1 4m teh hardkor gam3rd00d!!1!!o11ne

Glad to see you back again man. Hope everything is going well with your hitch.

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Originally posted by Streakfury Heh, what ya got??

see, if i told you, it would ruin the surprise! its just cheapo stuff, nothin special, really. you could pop in the cpu, and then jack up the fsb, see how fast you can burn the sucker out. its a 1600+ running at 1.9ghz, teeny little fan on her.





the mobo is an XFX KT400-ANB

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Originally posted by tribu Glad to see you back again man. Hope everything is going well with your hitch.

good to see you, too, tree! everything is going great! except for this part..

really, what in the hell are yall talking about. you lost me after "i bought a buttload of cds"

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Originally posted by Dirk W. really, what in the hell are yall talking about. you lost me after "i bought a buttload of cds"

OI!

ok.

Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 For AMD Athlon XP
^is a fan, fits over the processor, keeps that mother cool.



Gigabyte 7VT600-1394 Socket A Motherboard
^is a motherboard, contains connections for memory, cpu, hard disks, floppy disk, cdrom, etc.



US Modular Dual Channel 512MB PC4000 DDR 500MHz
^is memory. dual channel means that it is installed in pairs (2x256MB) and the 500mhz/PC4000 means that i can jack up the Front Side Bus (FSB) high on my cpu without worrying about burning out the
memory.



AMD Athlon XP3000+ CPU Barton Core 400FSB
^processor. Athlon processors do more work per clock cycle than pentiums do, so the 3000 is not its speed, its the equivalent pentium's speed. this processor runs at about 2.6ghz (if im wrong, somebody correct me) and it is just as fast (theoretically ) as a pentium 3.0ghz.






This guy just looks cool.

What does overclock mean?

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Originally posted by UWM What does overclock mean?

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Originally posted by UWM What does overclock mean?

making the cpu faster then the actuall speed. something like that.

Does that mean your stuff isnt coming till your leave is over? Obviously, either way, youre going to have little time to enjoy it before youve got to go back.

Also, dont forget to start saving some of that cash. Bank that shit!

Let me know here or via PM, or MSN when your time is up? Or are you planning on a military career? If weve breached these topics before, forgive me, it's been awhile.

none of you ******s answered my question

Re: home on leave!

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Originally posted by Zenchowdah and with the money i've saved, i bought a butt load of cds, and... 1 T925-1064 Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 For AMD Athlon XP $34.99 $34.99 1 G451-2018 Gigabyte 7VT600-1394 Socket A Motherboard $80.99 $80.99 1 U93-4908 US Modular Dual Channel 512MB PC4000 DDR 500MHz $114.99 $114.99 1 CP2-XP30004BC AV AMD Athlon XP3000+ CPU Barton Core 400FSB

Cool and good for you! Need a 3.2G P4 at least now. Athalon hasn't yet figured out with its 64 bit compatible chips that Bill Gates hasn't released the Windows 64 bit operating system, so they're out there flapping with any of their purported 3+ type chips. Intel has the chips to support, but why release them like Athalon did last year and particularly since Windows 2004/2005? still ain't ready for release? Intel will for a fact quite literally smoke Athalon once the 64 bit Windows system finally hits the market. Anyhow, you got a great system going, no doubt. Would hope you have a NVIDIA 6800 or Radeon X800 Pro video to go along with it if you're into gaming. If not, a less than top of line video will suffice if you got at least 1G RAM as the tradeoff. Trust me, I got all kinds here with 4 computers on line at the house.


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Caater ft Trinity - Endless Summer
Love those classics!

If you're a heavy gamer I'd recommend an athlon 64 3200+ (1Mb of cache, socket 939). Mostly because of its on-chip memory controller (Hypertransport)... they don't use FSB, so data gets to and from the chip faster.

But seeing as you've already ordered it, that should do fine as well

My system is intel based, but if I was buying a new one at this moment, I'd go athlon-64 all the way.

Although those Dothans look promising from intel.

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Originally posted by Azz3D If you're a heavy gamer I'd recommend an athlon 64 3200+ (1Mb of cache, socket 939). Mostly because of its on-chip memory controller (Hypertransport)... they don't use FSB, so data gets to and from the chip faster. But seeing as you've already ordered it, that should do fine as well My system is intel based, but if I was buying a new one at this moment, I'd go athlon-64 all the way. Although those Dothans look promising from intel.

The Athlon 64 3200+ doesn't clock at 3.2G so what's the point? Have had the Athlons in the past and am currently undecided on which way to go until the 64 bit Windows is released and see what Intel surprises us with in the 4-5G range as well.


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Originally posted by smokeape The Athlon 64 3200+ doesn't clock at 3.2G so what's the point? Have had the Athlons in the past and am currently undecided on which way to go until the 64 bit Windows is released and see what Intel surprises us with in the 4-5G range as well. [[[smoke]]]

in case you didn't know
clock speed means nothing nowadays
might have meant something 2 years ago
but today, nope

PentiumM (dothan) @ 2.0 Ghz > AthlonXP @ 2.2 Ghz > Pentium4 @ 2.8 Ghz

athlon 64 @ 3.2 Ghz is about the same as a pentium4 @ 5Ghz (both overclocked of course)

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