4000+ for £77.49.....tempting... sod it..ordered 
I keep looking at that XP 4000+ in the this week only and I think to myself... damn thats cheap. And in single core programs/games it would be more than a match for my X2-4200. So tempted to buy it and upgrade my second machine.
Second machine is an XP2500 Barton, gigabyte board, 512RAM 9600Pro Graphics.
Obviously if i bought this processor i'd need to get a S939 M/B, and unless i got an older NF3 or asrock dual (don't want another one of those!!) then i'd need a new graphics card too!
As far as funding this little project, i'll fork out for the CPU myself, but the money for the mobo, and possibly new graphics has to come from selling some old stuff.
I've got 2x cpu's / XP2500 Barton / Celeron 2.2 (478)
2x Mobos / Gigabyte Pro NF2 board / MSI KT800 i think 478 board.
2x GFX / ATI 9600Pro 256mb / ATI 9550Pro 256mb - both Sapphire
I'm guessing the values are roughly £50 ish for both processors, maybe £20 for both motherboards and i dunno £30-40 for the graphics cards.
I'd put them in the members market, if i had enough posts, guess they will probably end up on the bay.
So yeah lookin at max of £100 ish to get a good overclocking board and the cheapest of the cheap PCI-E graphics cards.
I seem to recall there was a 939 board on the go not too long ago that had was it a 6100 onboard graphics or something? can't remember who made it though.
I would have got myself a new board for main machine and used the asrock dual to sit the 4000+ into but it's going to my mate once he comes up with the funds!
Just ordered it.. couldn't pass it up!!!
I'm in no great rush to build my second machine up, i'll get my old stuff sold and see what I have to spend.
I keep looking at that XP 4000+ in the this week only and I think to myself... damn thats cheap. And in single core programs/games it would be more than a match for my X2-4200. So tempted to buy it and upgrade my second machine.
Second machine is an XP2500 Barton, gigabyte board, 512RAM 9600Pro Graphics.
Obviously if i bought this processor i'd need to get a S939 M/B, and unless i got an older NF3 or asrock dual (don't want another one of those!!) then i'd need a new graphics card too!
As far as funding this little project, i'll fork out for the CPU myself, but the money for the mobo, and possibly new graphics has to come from selling some old stuff.
I've got 2x cpu's / XP2500 Barton / Celeron 2.2 (478)
2x Mobos / Gigabyte Pro NF2 board / MSI KT800 i think 478 board.
2x GFX / ATI 9600Pro 256mb / ATI 9550Pro 256mb - both Sapphire
I'm guessing the values are roughly £50 ish for both processors, maybe £20 for both motherboards and i dunno £30-40 for the graphics cards.
I'd put them in the members market, if i had enough posts, guess they will probably end up on the bay.
So yeah lookin at max of £100 ish to get a good overclocking board and the cheapest of the cheap PCI-E graphics cards.
I seem to recall there was a 939 board on the go not too long ago that had was it a 6100 onboard graphics or something? can't remember who made it though.
I would have got myself a new board for main machine and used the asrock dual to sit the 4000+ into but it's going to my mate once he comes up with the funds!
Just ordered it.. couldn't pass it up!!!
I'm in no great rush to build my second machine up, i'll get my old stuff sold and see what I have to spend.
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