Easy to overclock any cpu, but the problem lies in the fact that the more cores a cpu has the more likely one of them wont scale to higher clock speeds as well as the other.

Can end up being a pain in the ass seeing one core failing prime 95 and the other chugging along with no worries. Ends up usually people just send more voltage through the cpu, ive seen people run core 2 setups on watercooling overclocked hitting 70c @ load which is even worse than the prescotts on watercooling.

Next time round its gonna be all stock for me, overclocking is handy and all but some games and apps are more sensitive to it than others, even if prime goes through a 12hour stress test theres no guarantee that certain games or programs won't go haywire with the overclock.

Well my computer of 6 years finally shit the bed the other day. IT was an emachines with the following
1.7ghz Celeron
40gb HDD
768mb DDR
and an ATi Radeon 9250 256mb Graphics card

I bought a Compaq presario SR1930NX with
3.06ghx P4 HT
200gb HDD
DVD R/RW w/Light Scribe
1GB DDR
9 in 1 MEmory card reader
And the Ati Radeon 9250 256mb
All I can say is this is a huge upgrade that didnt cost a kidney.

Two things..

Why wouldnt you go intel core 2 duo?

Why the worst video card in production today?

oOo:

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HI SON!

Tripowned.

one word, money. I had the video card laying around and it works for me. I dont have thousands to spend on a new system like some people. Im on a serious budget.

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":c2d93]one word, money. I had the video card laying around and it works for me. I dont have thousands to spend on a new system like some people. Im on a serious budget.[/quote:c2d93]Ok but there are aweosme cards you can get for like $100, and conroe is seriously cheap as shit for the low end one.

If I had an addition $100 to spend I would have but I dont. I didnt even put buying a new computer into my yearly plans and for someone like me who makes very little money and lives off of essentials and very few luxuries I think this is a very nice system for the price I did end up having to pay for it.

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":ea295]If I had an addition $100 to spend I would have but I dont. I didnt even put buying a new computer into my yearly plans and for someone like me who makes very little money and lives off of essentials and very few luxuries I think this is a very nice system for the price I did end up having to pay for it.[/quote:ea295]

aka his dad's not buying it.

i don't know why but i can't stop giggling stupid: rofl

[quote=Nyck]aka his dad's not buying it.[/quote:3a13e]
This is true. He did offer however, but I know they need their money for other things.

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":67286][quote=Nyck]aka his dad's not buying it.[/quote:67286]
This is true. He did offer however, but I know they need their money for other things.[/quote:67286]

you are a good son.

lol

Got my laptop for college.

How is the ATI Radeom Mobility x1300? Anyone have this card and how does it do with games (not that Ill being playing too much)?