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Bin toss or burn? (CPU)

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First post, by xplus93

Posted on 2017-03-19, 00:59

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Went through my CPU stash and found a northwood 2.4 celeron with an abysmal 128k of cache. Why I decided to keep it I have no idea. Anything fun I can actually do with this CPU? I'd like to overclock it to death and see what happens but i'm afraid of ruining the only good 478 board I have.

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Reply 1 of 6, by lazibayer

Posted on 2017-03-19, 02:23

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De-lid!

Reply 2 of 6, by cj_reha

Posted on 2017-03-19, 03:29

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Honestly just keep it, everyone is going for the good hardware but I think some abysmally underpowered (128 KB of L2 on a P4 for example 🤣 ) or crappy hardware is interesting, it's fun to experience the low end side of retro hw 😀

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Reply 3 of 6, by Jade Falcon

Posted on 2017-03-19, 03:41

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Low end hardware can be very fun to benchmark and overclock. That and they make for good low powered draw systems.

Reply 4 of 6, by Ampera

Posted on 2017-03-19, 04:43

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Give it to PhotonicInduction.

Reply 5 of 6, by melbar

Posted on 2017-03-19, 07:53

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Oh no.... 😳
1.6GHz Intel CPU Burn With Electric Arc;
1.5kV 0.2A /AC

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Reply 6 of 6, by xplus93

Posted on 2017-03-19, 16:19

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Jade Falcon wrote:
Low end hardware can be very fun to benchmark and overclock. That and they make for good low powered draw systems.

Yeah, I am curious to see how much performance I can get out of it. I don't think you can use P4 and "low power" in the same sentence though, 🤣

XPS 466V|486-DX2|64MB|#9 GXE 1MB|SB32 PnP
Presario 4814|PMMX-233|128MB|Trio64
XPS R450|PII-450|384MB|TNT2 Pro| TB Montego
XPS B1000r|PIII-1GHz|512MB|GF2 PRO 64MB|SB Live!
XPS Gen2|P4 EE 3.4|2GB|GF 6800 GT OC|Audigy 2

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