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nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
I got a Duron 1.8 ghz... overlocked to 2.054 ghz... What are your opinions? |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
An abaccus? Account frozen... |
The Pirate Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 191 Credit: 4,929,008 RAC: 0 |
I would go for an AMD XP some where around 2500-2700 boxed w/fan. Although I have heard that the Duron is just about as fast and overclocks well. The XP has a faster front side bus and a larger cache |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
Thats what i think as well, although the duron 1800 and 2400Xp run a wu in nearly identical times. (the duron is slightly faster) the credit given is way different... i also have a P3 1000 and P3 1200 that have credits strangely alike although there is a speed difference. just thinking a farm made of amd material is more economical. phud > I would go for an AMD XP some where around 2500-2700 boxed w/fan. Although I > have heard that the Duron is just about as fast and overclocks well. The XP > has a faster front side bus and a larger cache > > |
BigDawg Send message Joined: 16 Apr 04 Posts: 113 Credit: 6,927 RAC: 0 |
I would suggest the AMD Athlon XP as well, and would go with the barton chipset,since it seems to run cooler which makes overclocking easier(if thats your thing). |
ric Send message Joined: 16 Jun 03 Posts: 482 Credit: 666,047 RAC: 0 |
AMD is cutting the price, so wait 2-4 week, you will got more for the money my personal thinking: one of the "best" cheap cpus, also mentioned above, is the barton on example ist the AMD p2500 with 512 kb of cache without special cooling, you can run the amd p2500 as an amd p2800 this will give you a lot of cpu power for the money Motherboards: use a "qualitiy" MB, not a cheap one. A cheap motherborad, has less possibilies for oclocking AND there are mostly not as stable as quality boards. I do have bad experience with boards with build in grafic cards, those which I used, gave bad performance (got 3 in the past, all of them broken) Memory take fast memory, slow memory decreases the system overall performance compare the prices, this can also save money With luck and spending time, at ebay, can also be a source of good and cheap hardware good luck if finding "your" best CPU. ric |
Jaaku Send message Joined: 29 Oct 02 Posts: 494 Credit: 346,224 RAC: 0 |
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Christopher Hauber Send message Joined: 10 Feb 01 Posts: 196 Credit: 71,611 RAC: 0 |
That's good to know about the price cut. Where did (do) you find out about that? I've kind of been wanting to upgrade to at least a 3000+ (I think that's the limit of my motherboard -- at least the upper limit on the website) so maybe that will be the time. Incidently though. you can overclock a 2400+ to 2800+ without special cooling as well. I think mine runs with a 13.5 multiplier and a 162 FSB with some slight overvolting and air cooling (case partly open). I've also had problems with my graphics card, but not terrible. It's a PNY GeForce4 Ti4600 and works great. I'm on my third one of those because the first two got screwed up somehow and didn't work properly. But, that's where the lifetime warranty came in handy. :) Chris > AMD is cutting the price, so wait 2-4 week, you will got more for the money > > my personal thinking: > > one of the "best" cheap cpus, also mentioned above, is the barton > > on example ist the AMD p2500 with 512 kb of cache > > without special cooling, you can run the amd p2500 as an amd p2800 > > this will give you a lot of cpu power for the money > > Motherboards: > use a "qualitiy" MB, not a cheap one. A cheap motherborad, has less > possibilies for oclocking AND there are mostly not as stable as quality > boards. > > > I do have bad experience with boards with build in grafic cards, those which I > used, gave bad performance (got 3 in the past, all of them broken) > > > Memory > take fast memory, slow memory decreases the system overall performance > > compare the prices, this can also save money > > With luck and spending time, at ebay, can also be a source of good and cheap > hardware > > good luck if finding "your" best CPU. > > ric > |
ric Send message Joined: 16 Jun 03 Posts: 482 Credit: 666,047 RAC: 0 |
chris got this message from http://www.chip.de/news/c_news_12154109.html <a>http://www.chip.de/news/c_news_12154109.html[/url] depending of cpu modell, amd will cut 30% (sorry it's in german) |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
What about the new Centrino with 2MB of L2 cache.... that'd be fast wouldn't it? |
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