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Yip I remember upgrading a PC, it had an 80mb harddrive and my brother said we should get a new 500mb harddrive. I thought he was nuts, I said it will be a waste because we would never use it all.

I know have 500GB and it is not enough

Sopwith, man, I'd forgot about that game. Sheesh, boy how things have changed when you think of sopwith in light of bc2. It's scary that even cellphones have far better games than sopwith.

My old 10Mb hard drive used to be so huge I couldn't fill it up at one point...

I just wandered into a nerd support group.

Lee, I don't know what is sadder, the fact that I actually remember that game (and played it to death) or the fact that I actually understood exactly what you said... ;-)

I *cough* hardware OC'd my XT yes - pre 286 machine by changing the Crystal Oscillator from 8Mhz to 10Mhz - it made a BIG difference in those days, like doubled the speed. Pity the monochorome display didnt have a FPS display so that I could see how much faster [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_%28computer_game%29]SOPWITH[/url] ran.
remember SIMCGA.com - CGA Emulation on a Monochrome display?

[img]http://www.sorgonet.com/8086/CGA_emulation/cgacard.jpg[/img]

If they go with the paid upgrade path it will open the door for AMD. I hope they do, I'd like the market to even out some more.

I took an amd 486 133mhz (33fsb) to 150mhz (50fsb). The machine ran non stop for almost year without ever being switched off before I sold it.

Hi Flatspin, only returned yesterday and catching up on my emails. I use to run that exact same motherboard as my main gaming rig until about a year or so ago. I however paired it up with an extreme edition cpu, the QX6700, and two 8800GTX cards as that was the best that was available when I've bought it. It was a wonderfull system and would have still been up there had my one GPU not explode. That board served me very well for many years and I actually sold it a couple of weeks ago to a friend of mine. He paired it with a Q8300 and a 9600GSO, but the board now at least allow him a reasonable upgrade path for the next 2 years. Most likely, he will get himself the GTX460 in a couple of months time, and then perhaps get a better cpu as well. The Socket 775 cpu's are getting ridiculously cheap and there is not much wrong with them at all.

Anyevent, I always find it fascinating the views on OC'ing. I remember my very first overclock was done on an Pentium 1, 100MHz cpu and I've overclocked it to 120MHz, that was a bliss!

[img]http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Sources/A/Asus%20P5N32-E%20SLI/Images/1459_l.jpg[/img]

That's my board.

"Having read other users reports, this board can definitely go up to 500+FSB (with the proper voltage tweaks and the selected CPU/RAM combination)."

They also reckon my Q9300 will comfortably OC to 3.5Ghz from its current 2.5Ghz, thereafter will be subject to mainboard limitations. You can read about my board here: [url=http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=19557&PageId=0]http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=19557&PageId=0[/url]

The biggest problem I have is that my GTX 285 pushes insane amounts of heat out at 100% fan speed & I guess I'd need extra cooling for my GPU & CPU fans if I was to try push my system to the limits. I'd rather just put that money towards a new system.


Yeah, I believe Intel is going to be rather schnoop with their multiplier locks. It's probably to stop the trend of OC'ing cheaper chips beyond the stock speeds of more expensive chips & getting more performance for less, effectively hurting their bottom line.

Something else that is quite worrying is Intel's new software hardware upgrade. You pay them to unlock features already on your chip: [url=https://retailupgrades.intel.com/Page.aspx?Name=Upgrade]https://retailupgrades.intel.com/Page.aspx?Name=Upgrade[/url] That's just a load of horsecrap if you ask me. Opinion here: [url=http://blog.laptopmag.com/intel-testing-retail-upgrade-program-for-cpus-charging-50-to-improve-performance]http://blog.laptopmag.com/intel-testing-retail-upgrade-program-for-cpus-charging-50-to-improve-performance[/url]

If AMD can come up with something that will perform the same as a similarly priced Intel chip by the time I'm ready to upgrade, without the multiplier locks, I'll have no qualms about switching back to them. Someone needs to support the underdogs.

You need the right motherboard to be able to overclock. I specifically had to get mine shipped over from the states as I could not find it here. But my pc is stable as anything now since I got rid of my previous board which couldn't get anywhere near my current board in terms of overclocking potential.

I'm not looking forward to Sandy Bridge... fsb locked to everything is going to kill fsb overclocking. Intel are going to make us pay more for unlocked cpu's now.