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pacboy22

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• Jun 16, 2002

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hey all i may be considering to switch from my old cpu which is a socket 478 p4 1.5ghz from what i hear that chip is sh*t and im not all that rich but i want to get a chip that will overclock good and at the same time not spend so much money i was looking at a 1.6a at 140 $$ is that a good offer?? and is that a decent upgrade?? ok and maybe a new motherboard cause mine sucks like crazy..thanx any advice will be appreciated

 

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cshawkeye has a very nice overclockable chip, (1.6a) for sale pm him.

 

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dude 140 is too much to pay for a 1.6A go and take a look over at pricewatch www.pricewatch.com and you'll see the chiip comes for about 128 dollars

 

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thanx alot guys but um what kind of motherboard would be good?

 

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im checking out price watch but theydont seem to have the 1.6"a" or 1.8 "a" they have the regular ones

 

Darryl_D

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here let me check i'll get back to you....

 

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hmm sorry it's my fault.... i checked like 2 weeks ago for somebody else and they had it for 128 they rose the price now... it's 137 dollars shipped... but then why don't you just pay 20 dollars more and get a 1.8a? it's 165 dollars at newegg... www.newegg.com

that's where i got mine from and right now it's at 2.7ghz and that's at 1.75volts! the motherboard i reccomend you get is the abit bd7II slap on some pc3200 ddr and you got yourself a very good machine!

 

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all right thanx alot ill try to get those buy the end of this month.

 

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no problem! let us know how everything turns out.....

 

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whichever mobo you get, just make sure it has the agp/pci lock feature.