Overclocking Athlon XPs is not worth the risk.

[FatBurger]

Hehehe
Like a chastity belt.

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[Matisaro]

I know a person like that, he thinks that the little blurbs in the motherboard book make him a certified pc tech, so he randomly changes things he "thinks" he dosent need.

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[FatBurger]

One person?

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[Matisaro]

Heh, one person is enough, multiply him by the poeple I dont know, then you get quite a big number which can easily be avoided.



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[eden]

Now that I think of it, sometimes out of nowhere I hear a clank switch sound from the inside of the case. Kinda like when some plug changes place or something! It ain't like a modem hang up though. Any idea what it might be? It doesn't have any side effects though...

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[Raystonn]

It could be your power supply. It coudl also be a bad fan or your hard drive starting to go. I would recommend taking off your case cover to see just where this noise is coming from. If it is your hard drive, that is very bad news.

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[74merc]

odds are its your hard drive starting back up.
depending on the severity of the clunk it could be normal or outright fatal.

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[eden]

Starting to back up? How?
I have this old 5400RPM 6.4GB.
It has served me well though I admit it's been over 3 years now. Could it be the culprit? I did notice once, when starting Norton Speed Disk, the clank sound came quite often, as if something is indeed happening upon access to disk. Problem is, until I can find what is causing this, nothing is going on.

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[74merc]

starting to spin back up, drives go to sleep mode or standby or whatever and stop spinning.

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[vermis]

I would think someone could make a killing buying cheap XP1600 and 1800s, unlocking them and selling them online. Since AMD has publically stated they are not against overclocking, I see no legal reasons this would not be ok, just as long as you inform your customers the 1 year warranty would be void and stress they need a good CPU fan. With like $10 worth of material, you could unlock 100's of XPs and then sell then for $20 over cost plus shipping. You'd be making $100+ an hour once established. 5 minutes to unlock, 5 minutes to test it, then rewrap the sucker and ship it off. I for one would pay $20 more for an XP1800 that was unlocked by someone who knew what they were doing since I do not want to risk messing one up trying it myself. I have a hard time gift wrapping things or even coloring within the lines, so tapeing up an XP and performing micro-surgery on one is not something I would personally attempt.

 

[Matisaro]

The overclockers store does that, pretested cpus, however they are not allowed to claim the cpu actually is xxxxmhz, they must make it clear its an overclocked processor.

"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
No Overclock+stock hsf=GOOD!