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If you have no other use and don't mind it getting damaged, then why not try extreme overclocking,  See how hard you can push it with what ever you have at home.

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If you have no other use and don't mind it getting damaged, then why not try extreme overclocking,  See how hard you can push it with what ever you have at home.

It's sitting at 3.2GHz (up from 2.4) right now. Did I win the silicon lottery or what?

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It's sitting at 3.2GHz (up from 2.4) right now. Did I win the silicon lottery or what?

well, how much farther can it go,  can you poor LN over it or bastardize a small AC/fridge and do some Phase change?

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well, how much farther can it go,  can you poor LN over it or bastardize a small AC/fridge and do some Phase change?

No. This is as high as the motherboard lets it go. Any farther and it sits at a black screen when you try to boot it.

 

Wanna know the weird part? I'm using the cooler that came with my 2.0GHz Celeron with some Arctic MX-2. Sits about 138F at idle. But I'm gonna leave it at 2.4 though. It gets funky that high up (not enough wattage, I'm within like 10 watts of killing the power supply, and it gets unstable).

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New PSU and fold. Better GPU would be good too... 3450?

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Well, I'm in the progress of rebuilding my old toy, and I was wondering if it was really good for much of anything, these days. Specs are below, and feel free to give me your honest thoughts. Folding is out of the question, since it would kill the PSU, since I have to wiggle room left (5.4 watts :o).

 

ASUS P4V8X-X

Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Hyper-Threaded

ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 256MB AGP 8X

3x1GB DDR 400MHz RAM

WD1600AAJB 160GB HDD

WD1200BB 120GB HDD

SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital

 

And....

 

Windows Vista Ultimate.

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processors#key=pentium_4_2.4_ghz_northwood_200_fsb try and beat these records with it

Rig Specs:

AMD Threadripper 5990WX@4.8Ghz

Asus Zenith III Extreme

Asrock OC Formula 7970XTX Quadfire

G.Skill Ripheartout X OC 7000Mhz C28 DDR5 4X16GB  

Super Flower Power Leadex 2000W Psu's X2

Harrynowl's 775/771 OC and mod guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/232325-lga775-core2duo-core2quad-overclocking-guide/ http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/365998-mod-lga771-to-lga775-cpu-modification-tutorial/

ProKoN haswell/DC OC guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

"desperate for just a bit more money to watercool, the titan x would be thankful" Carter -2016

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Put fedora linux on it and install rpm fusion. play there hundred or so free games games they should still run on it with out issue.

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Fold

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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A file server, media center, heater, router...

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A file server, media center, heater, router...

Heater is currently in progress. :D With Vista on it and all... Yeah.

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I'd say retro gaming rig or just a media PC hook it up to the TV get a wireless keyboard and mouse load netflix and hulu and be happy :I

My Rig "Corsair air 540, MSI Z87-G45, i5 4670k, EVGA ACX 780, Gskill sniper 2x8gb 1866 memory, Corsair CX500m modular 80+ bronze, corsiar h100i, toshiba 1.5tb HDD." / Peripherals "Acer H226HQLbid Black 21.5" (Main monitor), Acer S200HLAbd Black 20" (auxiliary), Razer blackwidow ultimate 2013, razer naga 2013, razer goliathus 444x355 speed edition, Sennheiser HD8 DJs"

 

 

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Well, I'm in the progress of rebuilding my old toy, and I was wondering if it was really good for much of anything, these days. Specs are below, and feel free to give me your honest thoughts. Folding is out of the question, since it would kill the PSU, since I have to wiggle room left (5.4 watts :o).

 

ASUS P4V8X-X

Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Hyper-Threaded

ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 256MB AGP 8X

1x1GB DDR 400MHz, 2x512MB DDR 266MHz RAM (for a total of 2GB, running in 266MHz mode)

WD1600AAJB 160GB HDD

WD1200BB 120GB HDD

SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital

 

And....

 

Windows Vista Ultimate.

Emulator gaming
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HTPC

The answer is always HTPC. Stream movies, play emulators (just imagine having all old consoles at your disposal), browse the Web etc. You just need some USB controllers and a new case.

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Print out the specs, read them, and weep.

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Paper weight, or maybe mine litecoins or play some Empire Earth 2. 

 
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Or (try to) make it a Hackintosh. It doesn't like Vista.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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Well, I'm in the progress of rebuilding my old toy, and I was wondering if it was really good for much of anything, these days. Specs are below, and feel free to give me your honest thoughts. Folding is out of the question, since it would kill the PSU, since I have to wiggle room left (5.4 watts :o).

 

ASUS P4V8X-X

Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Hyper-Threaded

ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 256MB AGP 8X

1x1GB DDR 400MHz, 2x512MB DDR 266MHz RAM (for a total of 2GB, running in 266MHz mode)

WD1600AAJB 160GB HDD

WD1200BB 120GB HDD

SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital

 

And....

 

Windows Vista Ultimate.

Whand to do something cool for humanity?

Get a Platinum PSU and start boincing or Folding

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Whand to do something cool for humanity?

Get a Platinum PSU and start boincing or Folding

I'll have to edit the post, but I'm not spending $20 for a new power supply, when my new rig gets double on one core, and consumes far less power.

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VAULT - File Server

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Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education

Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Elementary OS, and Joli OS 1.2, so I could always use one of those.

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VAULT - File Server

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Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education

Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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