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Subject: Re: to upgrade or not

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 09:37:48 03/14/02

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On March 14, 2002 at 09:10:38, K. Burcham wrote:

>
>i am ready for my next single processor upgrade. I have been checking
>about everyday on the new releases and what can be expected in the next six
>months. I would really like to upgrade to this new 1733mhz amd.
>there are several sites that have overclocked this to an error free 1850 mhz
>with air cooling. with my next upgrade, I would also like to go to one of the
>15000 rpm scsi drives. not sure how noisy these are. some of these companies
>have a restocking fee of 25% if I decided this scsi was too loud.
>I think I will wait on the new .13micron Thoroughbred.
>the mhz should increase significantly with this core. should be over 2000+mhz.
>also i find the freezer units very interesting. i have some refrigeration
>experience, so i am not intimidated by these systems in the bottoms of these
>cases. I noticed SYS has stopped selling their freezer units. they say they are
>working on the next mhz release. if these guys are waiting on the thoroughbred,
>then i suspect their mhz will be 2500 to 3000 mhz amd with the temps they run
>their processor at.
>below is a good link to an upgrade article.
>
>
>http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1595&p=13

Hello Ken,
I am currently running 2 AMD 1.4G athlons.  They each cost me less than $300.00
to upgrade (MB/CPU/Fan).  I used my old SDRAM and added a little more.  When you
get to 2800Mhz you will be about 2X faster than me and gain about 50-60 ELO.
Be sure to weigh this against your pocketbook unless money is no object.
:-)
Jim



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