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infinitevalence wrote:well i got a dual xeon 1.6 and motherboard for ~$300

From reading this cheap is fairly old.. How does it stack up agains some of thnew Pentium D type chips?

There is someone locally selling this computer. What do you guys think? "dual 2.2ghz XEON Hyperthreading processors... not cheap procesors at all tyan Thunder i860 mother board... 1024 RDram (rambus).. not cheap ram at all 250gig hard drive (brand new under a week) ATI FIRE GL4 Dual monitor vid...

Seriously guys, I really apprecaite all the info so far and the very useful links. I am reading and absorbing.. I'll be back with more questions ;)...

Thanks again...

So what is the verdict? Is there much use to attempting to OC my current setup?

I willt take some pics of the internals in the next few days to get your suggestions for cooling if there is much OC potential.

Thanks.

Again I really appreciate all the info - I am learning tons!! Here is the report: CPU-Z Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-Z version 1.30. CPU(s) Number of CPUs 1 Name Intel Pentium 4 Code Name Northwood Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU...

yes, I used to have a 2.53 northwood (and a 9800pro too :P ) . you can OC it more or less depending on your mobo. I used to have an asus with a sis chipset which was a bad OC er but anything with an intel chipset should be OK. let us know the exact mobo name, what ram you have and PSU. This is very...

Is it possible to overclock P4 2.53MHz?

congrats on your purchase. this should be a good choice, especially for this price. you might want to consider reading these articles - concerning your card's cooling and a possible flash to an XT (provided it's the XT PCB and R360 core). all of these concern the 9800pro so read up. cheap cooling m...

Thanks for the advice guys.. I just returned the 9600XT 256MB and bought a new ATI 9800 PRO 128MB off ebay for 120..

Thanks again..

Now to find a better fan

if you plan on gaming then forget the 9600. it only has 4 pipes and wont play anything new even at low settings. if you want to stay on budget, get the x700 or a 9800pro from ATI or a 6600 fom nvidia. they cost slightly more but all have 8 pipes. the 6600 and 9800pro both have good overclocking pot...

I am not sure on this.. Will this affect my ability to use this card?

Thanks.

Thanks for the great reply!! I checked out those sites but some won't ship to Canada. I just found a Samsung 512MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Memory stick from a local seller for $54CND. ( http://robotnik.com/product.php?productid=76&cat=28&bestseller ) - What do yo think? Also asides from the actual...

I just finished ordering a new video card for my computer. Right now I have the Geforc4 MX that came with the system and I thought it was time to upgrade but I didn't want to spend a whole bunch of cash. I was wondering what you guys thought about the card below. The price is in CANADIAN dollars. I ...

I appoligize for this question, I am very new to this site and have been trying to do as much reading as possible. I currently have a Dell Dimensions 4550C desktop. It has a Pentium 4 2.4GHz (if I recall correctly) and has served us quite well. Recently we have noticed that the computer seems to be ...