My Socket 939 X2 4200+ is still working great after six years. The only thing that has gone wrong with the entire setup (A8N-SLI Premium with PCI-E 1.0, 1GB DDR 400, 6800GT) is the motherboard's BIOS battery died. I need to get around to replacing it.
Processors rarely go bad. I personally know some people still running Pentium and Pentium II computers. I'm sure there's people out there still running a 486 for kicks too.
With that said, a single core, power-hungry Netburst CPU has definitely seen its better days. Upgrading to a moderate modern system (i3 / i5 or Athlon II X2 / X3 / X4) with a decent motherboard, 2+ GB of memory, and a solid state disk will make you completely reconsider your love for the 3.2C. Of course all of that will cost you a pretty penny, so it's up to you to decide if your computer is adequate for what you do.
Surprisingly enough, my parents overclocked 2.4C is also steaming right along. I chalk it up to solid state capacitors on the mobo. All of the other P4s have had mobo deaths with leaking caps.
have a 466C HP system that still works in after years or non-use
it chugged playing a YT video and that ended the nostalgic journey back
My dell 400SC 3.2C caps burst at 16months old, 1 year warranty so Dell told me tough titties.
Cpu is still running great in a asus retail motherboard at a friends house.
My sister was running a A64 3000+ 1.8ghz up to 6 months ago, I upgraded her to a E5200 system, sold her old used stuff for more than the E5200 parts cost new. MB/CPU/RAM
gotta love people trying to keep real old system runnin way after it becomes not cost effective.
I have done this several times selling old parts for more than new way faster parts cost new, gotta love Ebay.
So why not do a cheap upgrade like an AMD Athlon X4 620? Upgrades to a decent quad core setup are so damn cheap may as well take advantage.
Nice, northwood C's were good chips :thumbsup:
I still prefer CPU's with pins. Todays motherboards are WAY to fragile. I think Intel was just tired of people bending pins. I sold about $40,000 worth of chips on Ebay and straightened out literally hundreds of them. I earned $10,000 in profit for my trouble.
Was it worth it? Yes!
Nice! I did that a few times myself, only made a few hundred quid though.
Anyone remember that group of people on AT who were rockin P4EE chips when everyone else was on X2's and C2D's? Whats happened to them? They had their own thread i think.