DragonClaw

Here's a real blast from the past. These are parts from my old socket A (462) PC that were just lying around, so when I had some free time I decided to put them back together, see how far I can overclock the CPU ('cause at the time I was using it I didn't know what overclocking was) and benchmark it.
 

 
Specs:
Athlon XP 2200+ Thorton core (1.8GHz) @ 2.45GHz - pretty nice overclock for that chip, I did try unlocking the extra 256KB L2 cache, but it didn't work :[
Radeon 9550
768MB of DDR RAM
AsRock K7VT6 motherboard
 
And here are some Cinebench 2003, Super PI and wPrime results:
 

 
Not that these numbers should mean anything to most people. After all it's been more than 10 years since the last socket A CPU was released.

Here's a real blast from the past. These are parts from my old socket A (462) PC that were just lying around, so when I had some free time I decided to put them back together, see how far I can overclock the CPU ('cause at the time I was using it I didn't know what overclocking was) and benchmark it.
 

 
Specs:
Athlon XP 2200+ Thorton core (1.8GHz) @ 2.45GHz - pretty nice overclock for that chip, I did try unlocking the extra 256KB L2 cache, but it didn't work :[
Radeon 9550
768MB of DDR RAM
AsRock K7VT6 motherboard
 
And here are some Cinebench 2003, Super PI and wPrime results:
 

 
Not that these numbers should mean anything to most people. After all it's been more than 10 years since the last socket A CPU was released.

Here's a real blast from the past. These are parts from my old socket A (462) PC that were just lying around, so when I had some free time I decided to put them back together, see how far I can overclock the CPU ('cause at the time I was using it I didn't know what overclocking was) and benchmark it.
 

 
Specs:
Athlon XP 2200+ Thorton core (1.8GHz) @ 2.45GHz - pretty nice overclock for that chip, I did try unlocking the extra 256KB L2 cache, but it didn't work :[
Radeon 9550
768MB of DDR RAM
AsRock K7VT6 motherboard
 
And here are some Cinebench 2003, Super PI and wPrime results:
 

 
Not that these numbers should mean anything to most people. After all it's been more than 10 years since the last socket A CPU was released.

NCIX: n/a
Amazon: http://georiot.co/30oN
 
The G3 from LG is the first phone I've used with a 2560x1440 display. That's a lotta pixels! Not to mention the rest of the top-of-the-range specs!
 


 
Alright, now onto the good stuff. LG is giving us TWENTY FIVE G3's to give away! All you need to do to qualify is post your favourite thing about the G3 from the review above in this thread and you can be selected at random to win one of these phones!
 
Please note that they are retail units (in the video I said pre-production, but this has since been changed) and they are Korean unlocked global units, so you will need to verify if they will work correctly on your carrier! To my knowledge they will work on AT&T or T-Mobile, but I got no data - only get voice and SMS on my carrier (Bell) so YMMV.
 
Either way you can still enter to win one, and you an always use it as a portable gaming device or whatever... I mean, it's a G3 man! The wifi will work! Best of luck to everyone!
 
One entry per household.
 
The giveaway is worldwide and closes July 6th and the winners will be announced on Twitter, so make sure you're following @LinusTech! 
WINNERS:
 
shinta86  thefurryman  bigboco  xollen  Christian B  Muhammad Mokhtar  CH Fung  MoSLegend  DigitalGeometrix    Alex.arvidsson   Crook   L_AyMent    Swedishgodkiller  Sawce  gdemirdas  Xjmhd  storthode  Ober1kenobi  Frankz  Koriander  davidvu396  444Duarte  Jogostar  Tannerschoch  JasonRoGo    UPDATE:   The winners who have been struck through did not respond in the allotted time period, so seven phones have been redrawn.

The new winners of those seven phones are:   Echodamus    sillikony michaeldeve    HaydenMadeEm TechUpdate    lukepwnsall    fahzan007   Please respond to the message from nicklmg to claim your prize

Lets start from the beginning. 
 
Set ram speed, voltage and timings to their stock settings.
 
Multi unlocked as well?
 
Unlock all cores and set to 1.400 volts. Set LLC to Very high. HPC mode enabled, APM disabled. 

So, I recently took apart my Corsair VS 550 PSU to change the stock fan with a Noctua one I had and to my disappointment, I found out that Corsair were using crappy CapXon branded capacitors. Naturally, I had to change these, as they are known to be among the worst of the bad.
 
As this forum is for modding, I'm not going to cover the things you should have in mind when replacing bad capacitors. There are a lot of exhaustive tutorials out there.
 
Let's get started. Here's our patient:

 
 
And here are our replacements. While Samwha are not the best caps out there, they're the only ones my local electronics store had and I certainly feel much safer with them. Plus, they're 105 C rated.

 
Here's a look inside the PSU:

 
A closer look reveals the mixture of Aishi and CapXon caps:



 
Here's my 'map', showing where to put the capacitors and how to orient them. If you're doing such mod, you should definitely make one of these, as wrong markings on the PCB are not rare and the capacitance on each spot is not marked. I didn't bother to write down the voltage ratings, as all the stock caps are rated for up to 6.3, 10 or 16 volts, and I'm going to be replacing them all with 25V caps just to have bigger safety margin.

 
And here's what the PSU looks like with the caps unsoldered:

 
Here we have the stock "CrapXon" and Aishi ones:

 
And here's the final result. The 25V caps turned out bigger than I expected, so some of them ended up lifted off the PCB. That, I think, is fine, as long as there's no way for the leads to short.


 
Now all I had to do was solder the fan back on and assemble the PSU. I don't have the tools to measure ripple, but like I said, I feel safer knowing that there aren't any more of the CapXon caps inside my PSU. The benefits of doing this mod are longer lifespan and no danger of damaging other components in your PC when the caps go bad ('cause if they are CapXon branded, they will most probably fail eventually). Have fun replacing caps!

Sounds about right for the hardware. My PPD has been as high as 55k and as low as 15k with an 8320 and 7850. It fluctuates all the time, so don't worry.