Coincidentally, I sold my old Abit BP-6/300a when I upgraded to an MSI
mobo, Nvidia NF250, Athlon64 3000+ and a couple of IBM Deathstars in a
RAID 0 configuration (couple years later dude I sold it to told me they
failed). That was my first box with Windows XP coming from Win98. I
don't miss any of that antique stuff but those were the days.
On 2/20/2010 8:10 PM, Greg Sevart wrote:
Hah, well, that system was due for retirement anyway. It was just a
fileserver for backups. I replaced it with some spare hardware--an upgrade
to a single-core Athlon 64 3000+.
They did quite well, though, to run at a>50% overclock for a full decade. I
actually suspect that the chips are still fine, but the motherboard was
fried. Funny that I'm now running a 50% overclock again...my 2.4GHz
quad-core Q6600 at 3.6GHz. This machine has been so stable and is still so
quick that I've held off replacing it with a new i7 for some time already.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision
Greg,
Would you like a pair of replacements? Have a pair of matched 300a's
and
one spare, never opened, retail 300a. LOL!
Odd, way back then it was 450 mega-hertz.
Now, we all talk about 2.3 giga-hertz-plus........ :)
How times have changed!
Best,
Duncan
On 02/20/2010 01:05, Greg Sevart wrote:
Oh, absolutely, but it doesn't always work out that way. Similar deal
to the
old 300MHz Pentium II's with the SL2W8 s-spec. Most did 450MHz just
fine,
but mine was always a little buggy. Then the Celeron 300A was the big
thing,
and I got two, both did 464MHz all day long for a full 10 years
before they
were finally knocked out of service by a PSU that went bad. Luck of
the draw
on either side, I suppose.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision
Yeah, I have to agree but if you read as many hardware reviews as I
do
they practically say most will unlock and tout the bang for buck. I
have
a 0904 X3 720 BE that will unlock the 4th core stably and I bought
it
the same day NewEgg began to sell them. That was before anybody knew
about ACC and unlocking cores/cache. I don't feel comfortable
RMA'ing
it
as you say it works as advertised. Still, would have been nice to
have
a
$104 quad core...
On 2/19/2010 3:04 PM, Greg Sevart wrote:
Unethical. If it runs at its designed and advertised
specifications,
returning it for not exceeding them is just wrong. So is returning
it
for
any reason or invoking the warranty now that you have overclocked
and
overvolted it, IMO.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision
Well my new CPU came yesterday and it overclocks to 4 GHz stably
with
1.4v which I don't consider excessive. However, it won't unlock
the
other 2 cores so I expect there is a defect in 1 or more of the
unused
cores. What is the collectives opinion on sending it back for a
replacement? Ethical or not? What would you do if you wanted a
cheap
dually that you wanted to run as a quad? Thanks!
