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| Thread ID: 146574 | 2018-09-15 20:52:00 | Revived PC | piroska (17583) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1453610 | 2018-10-18 17:27:00 | That is luxury In my day, there was no windows, and you had to set up a menu for the client, using DOS and batch commands. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1453611 | 2018-10-18 20:17:00 | I've upgraded a few old core 2 duo machines to higher speed duos or quads when I can find them cheaply for people but I don't think I would want to try overclocking them any more. A 2.66 - 3 Ghz duo or quad does a very good job at stock speeds for normal tasks, add an SSD and a reasonable low end graphics card and they are surprisingly responsive. Outside of gamers, enthusiasts, and professionals, the demand an average user puts on a PC is really pretty low and the thing most of these old machines lack is really just RAM. Other than that they can still outperform a lot of todays low end tablets, Netbooks & such. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1453612 | 2018-10-19 10:09:00 | I've upgraded a few old core 2 duo machines to higher speed duos or quads when I can find them cheaply for people but I don't think I would want to try overclocking them any more. A 2.66 - 3 Ghz duo or quad does a very good job at stock speeds for normal tasks, add an SSD and a reasonable low end graphics card and they are surprisingly responsive. Outside of gamers, enthusiasts, and professionals, the demand an average user puts on a PC is really pretty low and the thing most of these old machines lack is really just RAM. Other than that they can still outperform a lot of todays low end tablets, Netbooks & such. With core/quad duo being throw away machines. They are fun to play around with and you can get some acceptable results on older games in 1080 wth a bit of tweaking if you have decent motherboard. I have a an old p5BE its doing pretty well, im hoping the E8400 will end up @ 4GHZ. It originally came out of a HP XW46000 workstation which had no overclock ability at all. When I finish with the E8400 i'll put the original E6420 (2.1ghz) into the HP machine and have a play with tape/bsel modding as a 6420 can be pushed into the 3.5 range too. I was wrong about my ram its corsair not crucial. I took out the 2x 512 pair and used the other single 2 GB stick. No error in prime95 overnight running 3867 mhz FSB 430 will let it continue until it hits 24 hours. Then push the FSB to 444 for a 4ghz. Then i'm gonna have a crack at this P5B Pencil mod to deal with vdroop and knock the voltage down to drop the cpu heat. |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1453613 | 2018-10-19 11:43:00 | I have an E7200 (2.53ghz) & a pentium D 925 sitting here free to a good home if anyone wants. They are left over from machines I upgraded some time back and have been gathering dust ever since. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1453614 | 2018-10-20 14:42:00 | Have locked in my overclock at 3900mhz stable on othos, occt and prime 95. I'm Not going to push things any furthur on the stock intel cooler. Just fine tuning cpu voltage and ram timings quite worth the effort | apsattv (7406) | ||
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