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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (122459)	8/18/2000 1:19:24 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

Ted said rather haughtily: "In the non geek world overclocking my Duron would be the equivalent of wearing black dress knee socks with shorts......its just not done. <g>" Bah.. you investor types need to loosen your collar a bit and chill :) Ted then asked: "Now the shop is telling me the price for a Duron 700 is about $130 but you are saying $70?" Nope.. read the original message, I said '600 Durons' .. thats what one I was referring to... I've seen people saying you can get it for 70$ US if you look hard enough.. Anandtech's review of August Value Systems that I posted about on the mod. thread says a Duron 600 CPU is going for about 90.. so 70-90 would be a good range. The 130 US for the Duron 700 sounds right - Anandtech says its generally around 125$. Ted then asked: "And what's a MB with multiplier changing capability do?" Others like JCholewa (JC) or Dale Laroy can explain much better then I, but if your Duron is an unlocked CPU.. having multiplier switches on the motherboard makes it a heck of a lot easier to Overclock:)Generally more stable as well. You dont have to depend soley on trying to rev up the FSB/voltage to get higher speeds. I would recommend reading this article about the Asus A7V - or at least, the ones that use multiplier dipswitches: insanehardware.com As I said.. Abit's KT7 apparently allows you to set multipliers up in software/CMOS.. but all of this is irrelevant if you have a locked CPU.. you'd then be forced to do some minor .. um.. surgery on the CPU to reconnect the bridges that have been cut to disable multipliers. (Supposedly as easy as using a pencil to connect them.. heh.. I havent dared to try that yet..)