Olschool Socket-A time - Thornton cache unlock!

[whitecrook]

I had a BE6 and a celery oc'd back in the day. 128MB of ram as well . Feel the power.

 

[Seanoog]

I remember using a pencil to turn my 2500xp into a 3200xp

http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e24.html

I remember, just upping the FSB to 200MHz.
That was on the Barton 2500+, still happily works away as a server downstairs! Ever reliable..

PS: Was my first Build, an I remember crapping bricks, when I upped the FSB in the BIOS...

 

[Icurus]

Good old Abit!

The next mobo after that was a VP6 running 2 x p3's 933's irrc

 

[Justintime]

Built a few rigs with it but never owned one.. my first dual Intel board was a PIII 1Ghz EB setup on Intel STL-2, first with one cpu and a passive passthrough then another 1GHz when funds were available, no overclocking possible though

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Was installing windows 7 on a socket A yesterday and boy did it hurt my patience.

All in all it took around 8 hours - faffing around with drivers in compat mode, patching updates etc etc.

At the end of it I took a drive image but am seriously thinking of a PCI SATA card and an SSD for lols. Obviously the CPU will be seriously bottlenecked but might be a good experiment for a laugh

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Built a few rigs with it but never owned one.. my first dual Intel board was a PIII 1Ghz EB setup on Intel STL-2, first with one cpu and a passive passthrough then another 1GHz when funds were available, no overclocking possible though

Heh you've reminded me that I've got a 1U dual PIII up in the loft somewhere complete with RAM and CPUs. There's all sorts up there that are best left forgotten tbh

 

[Clav]

There's still a surprising amount of value in these old parts. I sold my socket a Athlon 3200+, board, ddr ram and two agp graphics card for just shy of £100 not many months ago.