XP-M 2500

[{GP}-mongoose]

Hey i have a AMD Athlon XP-M 2500 im not using and i dont know wat to do with it lol. Any advice? I dont have a mobo for it all my socket A boards are dead and the ones that arnt i have sold over the past few months. Any help? Do you think I should sell it or buy a new mobo for it or what? I already have a second pc its a P4 2.4 GHZ. I know that mobile will kick its ass tho. Thanks!!! Oh ya and i was readin in PC world the other day and i came accross and ad for a power supply that has 1100W. I was like "Dear GOD" who could need that much power. Oh ya btw im new to these fourms soooo WATS UP!

[El_Seano]

You should attatch the cpu to a necklace and have some ultimate geek bling!! :P

[silenze]

Should see if you can find an Abit NF7 NForce2 Ultra or a DFI Lanparty NForce2 Ultra motherboard.. clock that up to 2.6Ghz+ with a Thermalright heatsink. :wink:

[{GP}-mongoose]

hell ya dude i know thats what i wanted to do. I even have the thermal right lol. But i wanted that DFI board and i couldnt find anyone that sells them any more. Any Ideas?

[silenze]

I'm not sure which one was the great overclocker of DFI for socket A, I can only find this one for sale online at 2 places, DFI NFII 400-AL, think you want the Lanparty NFII Ultra B...

http://www.comprella.com/shop/products_detail.php?pid=10290

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=180815&Sku=D452-2020&SRCCODE=PRICEGRABBER&CMP=OTC-PRICEGRABBER

The Asus A7N8X was also a good overclocker for socket-A:
http://www.xpcgear.com/asusa7n8xe.html
(should be easier to find elsewhere I bet as well..)

[silenze]

Woot I found it: http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=57657

Buy buy buy! :lol:

[FunkZ]

Hard to find Abit or DFI NFII boards now, except for that NF7-S2 which I hear is not good for overclocking.

That seems like an awful lot to pay for SocketA now. I think I'd settle for a MSI K7N2 Delta or a Chaintech 7NJL6.

[{GP}-mongoose]

ya thx for looking that dfi lanparty is wat i was looking for. but kinda pricey for a socket a board i still might get it tho if i do that means i have to buy another case also GAY!!! lol

[silenze]

I had a K7N2 Delta-L and it was great but I ran it with a Barton 2500+ 333fsb cpu, so I just took it up to 200Mhz FSB for 2.2Ghz, didn't take anything on the board itself out of spec..

[fstroupe]

No, an 1100 watt PSU is not yet needed...but it won't be long. My 6600GT heats up my Antec 430. I can't imagine what you'd need to not stress your PSU with a dual core CPU, + twin video cards in SLI, plus 4 HDD's in RAID, throw in a Raptor or 15 grand rpm HDD for good measure, multiple optical drives, some USB powered periphials, a water cooling pump, lots of fans to keep the water and hard drives cool, etc.

Though, I would imagine that 1100 watt PSU probably in reality isn't as powerful as the PC Power and Cooling 850 watt SLI PSU.

[FunkZ]

Man that bites too, because it wasn't but a month or two ago that you could find refurbished NF7-S v2 boards for a little bit of nothing... like $30-$40. Now nobody seems to have them.

Mwave and New Egg are the ones I would keep checking... maybe they'll get some more back in.

[silenze]

>1k W PSU = powering your phasechange/extreme watercooling/TEC/etc all from one PSU instead of using a couple like a lot of people resort to doing... even for a second card in SLI setup.. or one just for the cards.. etc.. etc..