XP 1700+ guaranteed @ 2,333 MHz for $90

[GotIssues]

Originally posted by: mattcham
Sometimes I wonder why people pay $200 to cool a $50 CPU that is overclocked to X.X GHz when
you can buy a real X.X GHz cpu, which requires no additional noisy fans, for only $200.

I miss the days of the Celeron 300MHz which oc'd to 800MHz with just a BIOS tweak and a $2 heatsink.

Paying extra $$$ for noisy fans, rounded cables, peltier heat sinks, arctic silver
thermal compound, special case, blow holes, water cooling, etc etc kills the hot deal.

Hmm, my costs:
mc462: $40 when I bought it (2 years ago)
Tt Smart Casefan II: $10

I bought my Antec SX1040 because its really easy to work on, the rest of it was just a bonus, and I needed a case anyways: $50 (difference in price from a PoS case and my case)

So basically I spent an extra $100 on my set-up.

At the time of my purchase of processor, 1700+ was $49, 2600+ was roughly $160 (My 1700+ is running at 2600+ speeds), difference in price: $110

$100 (what I spent on OC gear)- $110 (what the stock proc would have costed me) = -$10

Doesn't seem like a bad deal to me, saved me $10.

If ignorance is bliss, mattcham is the happiest man/woman/child/thing on the planet.

 

[Ziptar]

Originally posted by: SimMike2
I think the people that could get 800 MHz out of a Celeron 300 was probably incredibly small in number. Almost everyone could get 450 MHz, and other people could get it a little higher by overclocking the memory bus speed from 100 MHz, but they also risked overclocking other parts of the computer, like the PCI/AGP bus instead of just the CPU. A 300 at 800 with little effort, I don't think so.

Isn't it wierd how the myth of this CPU gets distorted over time. At the time, going from 300 MHz with 66 MHz bus speed to 450 MHz with 100 MHz bus speed was a big leap, probably close to doubling the CPU. But now people have to inflate it and say it got 800 MHz with little effort, which absolutely was not true.

True, I owned 4 of them, 3 did 450 with ease, 1 did 531 and the PII 450 wasn't even out yet!! I didn't have a $2 heatsink on that one. I used a Alpha P125 monster to cool that baby. Never heard of an 800MHZ 300A. If you look at the overclockers.com database you'll see 952 and it is liquid nitrogen cooled and unstable.... Average overclock is 532...

 

[cremefilled]

LOL, running a 300 Celeron at 800 with that $2 heatsink would have set the FSB and the memory bus at 177 MHz! With motherboards back then, you would have been running PCI at 58 MHz. I don't even remember PC133 memory being available back then.

Don't think so, unless we are talking about a cryo-chamber in an MIT or CalTech laboratory.

 

[larciel]

too much exaggeration.. all over the place!!!

 

[edplayer]

Originally posted by: mattcham
Sometimes I wonder why people pay $200 to cool a $50 CPU that is overclocked to X.X GHz when
you can buy a real X.X GHz cpu, which requires no additional noisy fans, for only $200.

I miss the days of the Celeron 300MHz which oc'd to 800MHz with just a BIOS tweak and a $2 heatsink.

Most Celeron 300A's got around 450MHz, mine did 1750MHz....

they have quiet fans for sale guy.

 

[WT]

Most Celeron 300A's got around 450MHz, mine did 1750MHz

Lemme guess, you also sanded the surface and carefully painted on the letters AMD Athlon XP just to make it look l337 ?

 

[GrandVizor]

Originally posted by: EXman
this sounds like a commercial...

2 feedbacks at resellerratings.com is nothing to go on.

Yeah, also look at the Grizzly777, he only have 2 posts........

 

[Tab]

Ahh! Bad infomerical! Ahh!

Grizzy777, I hope AnAnd Personally gives me your IP Address. This is a huge bomb to our hotdeals section. I wouldn't pay $90 in my lifetime for a 1700+!

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: cheapgoose

Originally posted by: mattcham
Sometimes I wonder why people pay $200 to cool a $50 CPU that is overclocked to X.X GHz when
you can buy a real X.X GHz cpu, which requires no additional noisy fans, for only $200.

I miss the days of the Celeron 300MHz which oc'd to 800MHz with just a BIOS tweak and a $2 heatsink.

Paying extra $$$ for noisy fans, rounded cables, peltier heat sinks, arctic silver
thermal compound, special case, blow holes, water cooling, etc etc kills the hot deal.

don't really know where you're getting the $200 part. h20? the best air cool hsf on the market right now is slk800, about $35 or sk7, about $20. I don't know man, even if I wasn't ocing, I'd spend at least $25 bones on cooling.

i got my 2000+ with ecs 5 months ago for 99 bux. with retail cooler. amd retail coolers aren't half bad at all. many times a retail cpu costs only like 10 dollars more then a bare.

 

[EXman]

this thread needs a LOCK bad!!!!!