I already know I probably have no potential but here goes.
I've got an Athlon XP 1800+ but unfortunately it's a Palomino core which I've read is the absolute worst for overclocking. So how does it work? Whenever you by a Athlon CPU its like a wild card you don't know what you'll get from the box or what? I bought it last year or something it was on sell at Fry's with the Epox 8kha+ mobo for 70 dollars or something.
And by the way, is that Epox 8kha+ any good? Somehow I doubt it. It only accepts DDR 1600 or DDR 2100 ram and actually all I've got is 1 stick of 256 Samsung DDR 2100. And it only runs at 133 mhz on this board. I've got a pretty good GeForce 4 ti 4600 I wonder if this mobo is even doing it justice.
So Palomino 1800+ Epox 8KHA+ Samsung 256MB DDR 2100.
I have a pretty good nonstandard heatsink with a puny fan I think it's pretty good but I'm at 45 degrees C without even overclocking so maybe its not.
I wanted to get my speed up to prepare for half life 2 and Doom III or something.
If what I've got is really crap, like I suspect. Maybe I should get a new CPU and MOBO? But then I'm worried it wouldn't work with my power supply/ antec case.
Assuming all my board ram processor is crap for overclocking do you guys think its worth it to upgrade?
I've got an Athlon XP 1800+ but unfortunately it's a Palomino core which I've read is the absolute worst for overclocking. So how does it work? Whenever you by a Athlon CPU its like a wild card you don't know what you'll get from the box or what? I bought it last year or something it was on sell at Fry's with the Epox 8kha+ mobo for 70 dollars or something.
And by the way, is that Epox 8kha+ any good? Somehow I doubt it. It only accepts DDR 1600 or DDR 2100 ram and actually all I've got is 1 stick of 256 Samsung DDR 2100. And it only runs at 133 mhz on this board. I've got a pretty good GeForce 4 ti 4600 I wonder if this mobo is even doing it justice.
So Palomino 1800+ Epox 8KHA+ Samsung 256MB DDR 2100.
I have a pretty good nonstandard heatsink with a puny fan I think it's pretty good but I'm at 45 degrees C without even overclocking so maybe its not.
I wanted to get my speed up to prepare for half life 2 and Doom III or something.
If what I've got is really crap, like I suspect. Maybe I should get a new CPU and MOBO? But then I'm worried it wouldn't work with my power supply/ antec case.
Assuming all my board ram processor is crap for overclocking do you guys think its worth it to upgrade?