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Asus SPAX-M Socket 7 Mobo (384mb Ram)

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AMD K6-2 333mhz

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AMD K6-2 400mhz

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The K6-2s together (Holy Vcore batman)

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Turion 64 X2

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The turion looks a little odd because its sat on top of one of the K6-2 chips
 
Looks like a Samsung logo on the heatsink? The contact arrangement looks completely different to normal RAM though, no idea what configuration that is.
 
So it went:
- Buy
- Excitement
- Receive
- Install
- Disappointment
- Await release of next card
- Repeat

Then the 4870 broke the mould by actually being as good as I was hoping!! :)

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Confused Stu said:
Then the 4870 broke the mould by actually being as good as I was hoping!! :)
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The problem is Nvidia made quite a big step forward with G80 (8800GTX/GTS), this left ATi playing big time catch up.

The 29** series was a massive letdown, and while the 3850/70 made some way in clawing back some lost ground, they still weren't where they should have been.

Unfortunately they weren't able to compete until the release of the 4*** cards, and even then they were behind the Nvidia equivalent,
for example the 4870 was more on a par with the GTX 260 as oppose to the GTX 280 which is what it should have been competing with.
It wasn't until the 58** series was released had ATi/AMD finally caught up and superceeded Nvidias offerings.

Basically what I'm saying is you picked the wrong team for a few years :p ;)
 
8 weeks before it stopped working.

FSP 88Plus 700W PSU. Shiny.
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and the PCB of a Sky/Netgear DG934G router before I soldered in an external antenna.

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FSP Aurum 700W PSU modded with a Enermax Magma fan.

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