My Computer

[EWS]

CD Writer -

[DukeLeto]

Good stuff!  You paid a bit more than the US value of that MB, but that processor and that much RAM for those prices?  Where did you find that?

[EWS]

On a site called overclokers.  I don't know if they do overseas shipping, but for all those UK people interested, the site is.  www.overclockers.co.uk

I was speaking to my bro, apparently the processor that I have chosen (or rather we chose) is the best for overclocking.  It is completly unlocked, and I could get about 2.3Ghz out of it.  Which I think is rather good, considering I am only paying for a chip capable of 1.6-1.8

[nemafakei]

Sorry, hadn't noticed the overclocking comment. Not that I'm much of a fan of the idea (no pun intended).

[EWS]

Overclocking is becoming more and more comman nowadays, and so manufacturers are making processors more durable for overcloking.  It was rather interesting, this chip I am buying was in a test, and reached a speed of 2.6Ghz (this was with a major water cooler system) and the only reason they didn't go any higher was because of the motherboard.  The motherboard only had a 12.5X multiplier on it.  Incidentally, this motherboard is the one I am buying.  So I think I might settle for a speed of 2.2 or 2.3, until I get a water cooler system.

[Andrew]

So I'm guessing cooling systems are a lot cheaper than just getting a better processor?

[EWS]

That is a very good point.  However, in the long term I think it would be better.  I intend to buy a cooling system anyway, and so I was trying to save some money on the processor.  The thing is though, with ATI processors, the speed that I can get out of mine, is the same as a top of the rang ATI processor.  So I believe I am saving alot of money on this.

[d3m0nger]

Don't forget overclocking your system will seriously effect performance on long term of use.

A cpu is build out of (Don't know the word in english, only in dutch) Halfgeleiders, Overclocking your system will cause them to defect more rapidly than normal usage.

[Cyborg]

Would Halfgeleiders mean transistors?

If so, yes, your computer detoriates faster, but we're not speaking of much faster here...

As a rule, a cpu either works or not works, and overclocking will in the end have caused more good than bad if done the right way.

[Kiyouta]

Well my My Computer is about 16 x 16 in size, has a nice blue screen, TFT of course :P and when you double click it, it shows you all these wonderful rectangles with code names like 'Local Disk (C:)' and '3 1/2 Floppy Disk (A:)' (thats one of my favorites)  ;D

[Khan]

Mine has too many rectangles, there's like 11 I think.

[Megashrap]

  Heres a good example of why I think AMD rocks for overclocking ability.

I have a second PC well older one now, It has a PCChips M811 MB. which costs around $35  us. but it is a basic DDR MB, no intigrated crap VIA266.

And i got an AMD athlon xp 1800+ costs around $50. Now, at default with MB set at 100 FSB the CPU reads around 1150mghz, change the MB to 133, it will read 1533mghz. Without physically altering the CPU (connecting the L1 on CPU) I can go into bios, set the fsb up from 133 to 266 i can get that chip to run smooth at around 1.9ghz, tweakthe memory in bios it goes up to 2.1 stable.  Ive had that cpu for about 2 years now and had no probs with it. so thats a $35 MB a $50 CPU, less than $100 for a damn close 2ghz running CPU. Thats still goin strong today. :)