$400 burning a hole...

[cackle]

So, I got 400 dollars to spend and I was thinking of buying an overclocked combo from The Overclockerz Store. Something like a Duron or Thunderbird overclocked to 1000 with mobo, ram and a cooler. Anyone have any better ideas?

 

[AmdEmAll]

Ive heard bad things about that online store. Check out ResellerRatings OCZ have a terrible score on there. What system do you have now. That would help us give you options for stuff to buy.

 

[Dantzig]

With $400, I would get:

Athlon 900 - $141 shipped (Pricewatch)
MSI K7T Pro2-A - $122 shipped (Pricewatch)
A FOP38 - $26.35 shipped from Sidewinder Computers

Total: $289.35 including shipping. This rig should do 1.1-1.2GHz for you
You can buy some more RAM or case fans or something with the left over money.

If you really want to blow your money, you could go for a higher speed processor and/or an Alpha HSF. But IMHO, that's just wasting your money.

 

[Finality]

Not sure if you would be lucky enough to get a processor that would do 1.1-1.2 Ghz on a 900Mhz chip.

I know most of the sucess stories come out of 1Ghz chips that do 1.1 with ease and the rate gem that does 1.4 Ghz. I have never heard of a large number of people hitting 1+Ghz on a >900Mhz Athy.

But generally durons overclock real easily

I'd check out the FS & Trade forum from a user like compuwiz. He has nice prices on overclocked Athy/Duron/P3s. Its not as good as the OCz store but then again you get what you pay for

 

[Wingznut]

Dude, if you want an overclocked cpu, then there's no where else to look other than AT's own Compuwiz1 from the ForSale forum.

 

[TheNemesis]

no doubt, compuwiz is the man!

 

[cackle]

Right now I've got a celery 300 overclocked to 450 with a crappy mobo, a Creative Labs Geforce 2 GTS, 128 megs ram, and a few more pci cards.