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Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks
budn3kkid writes "Seems like Upgradeware have a new gadget out for those overclockers looking to upgrade their age old Athlon mobo (KT133, KT266 etc.) with a spanking new AMD Barton CPU. Also, saw an article at ol' Tom's about it right here as well."
After digging around at random in the desert, I found this latest gadget. It works fantastic. Baywatch looks crystl clear on my Commodore-64 now!
Thank you!
A tradional alternate solution for a conventional method to solve a problem.. interesting
There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us
The error page is not in English, but Babelfish can help us out with that.
Law? Shows? Identical? Has the too many people deposits and withdraws the Web railroad platform. Line following? Does: * Presses re- trims presses? Or shortly after again? *? www.upgradeware.com head? Then examines you think? Looks for it? HTTP 403.9 - prohibitions deposits and withdrawals: Too many users? Receives? Stands Internet Information Services Technique? (Supplies the technique? Supports the person? Use) * Background: If the Web servo bustles about, also because? Many? Road traffic? Sends? Law? Manages your request? Fresh? * Other? Microsoft Support
sounds like most error messages... confusing in every way...
Aarrgh.... just beat me with the same information. Now I'll get redundant and you'll get +5 informative! Damn the Karma Whore system!
Someday I'll exact my revenge.
The Political Programmer
Solving an Old Problem Elegantly: Using the XP-TMC to Deal with the Slashdot Effect.
Apparently the guys at Upgradeware could use one of these
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I propose a modification to this. When talking about gaming or about overclocking (and especially AMD systems), your computer is not a 'box' but a 'rig'. The correct phrase to express that your computer is fast is that it is a 'sweet rig'.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Microsoft Support
That's the only bit I could read. Informative though.
Yeah, it is obvious from your spelling of the word "Athlon" that you are far too intelligent to run Windoze. Let the lower mortals who do not take the liberty of spelling trademarked product names however they see fit run the mainstream garbage, and you 1337 h4x0rz can run your BSDs.
Haven't you heard? The latest craze is UNDER clocking. People with older Athlons are ahead of the curve.
Underclocking Becomes Latest Computer Craze
Speaking as someone who works in a computer store, it always goes like this when dealing with modded hardware:
1 : Did you ever or has anyone ever physically modified, altered or enhanced the hardware of your system?Yes. --> You were or should have been aware of the risks. You don't go about messing with valve settings, piston settings or the fuel-mixture of your car, do you? Get lost, warrenty voided.
No. --> Continue to next question.
2 : Did you ever or has anyone ever changed any settings in the BIOS, other then IDE or ACPI settings?
Yes. --> You ought to be aware of the risks of messing with voltages, multipliers and what have ye. Go to hell, warrenty voided.
No. --> Blame Intel or AMD, try to sell an expensive, new CPU.
What the hell is a BIOS? --> Compare BIOS with an STD so people fear it. Then try to sell an expensive, new CPU.
Yes, but I am an overclocker and modder. --> Violently remove customer from store. We don't sell 300 Euro brand-name cases, 500 Euro brand-name PSUs or 750 Euro brand-name water-cooling rigs. Hence why we don't make money on them anyways. (That, and those "Look at my prefab case window mod and 750 Euro water cooling rig that uses an aluminium radiator, copper heatsink and common tapwater!" annoy me.)
Hate me!
Even if you're accepting the risk of ruining your processor by overclocking it, and are willingly releasing the vendor from warranty obligations, you _are_ morally bankrupt, and are swindling all involved companies by not buying a higher-speed processor to begin with. This is because you're violating the implied contract you made with them to run the CPU at the advertised speed.
I'll bet you're also the type who goes to the bathroom during TV commercials, which violates your contract to watch advertising which pays for TV programming. Hell, you're probably one of those scumbag Tivo users who fast-forwards through the commercials...
Do you have multiple computers at home? You're probably connecting them all to one of those damned routers, instead of paying the ISP more for each computer!
How are companies supposed to survive with people like this around? We need more laws and enforcement to make sure people are using things they purchase only in ways that the manufacturers permit!!
and by 'guide to being l33t' they mean
'guide to being a parents' basement dwelling uber-dork'.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
Greetings,
I represent the CIAA (CPU Industry Association of America) and wish to inform you that you are to cease all overclocking immediately. As you may be aware, under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Clockcycles Act) when you purchase a CPU, you are merely purchasing silicon with a license to use it for X number of MHz. Exceeding this number is STEALING MHz from poor engineers.
Furthermore, multi-tasking OSes have been determined to be 'CPU piracy' becuase it allows multiple programs to share the CPU. As 'sharing' has been determined to mean 'stealing' you will have to have a seperate CPU for each process you wish to run concurrently.
Thank you, and please continue to buy our products or we will be forced to sue again.
"I've had an Athalon box running 24/7 for over a year now. No problems at all."
"Of course, you wouldn't believe how much I spend a month on refridgerating that thing. Wowsers!"
"Derp de derp."
you say "parents' basement dwelling uber-dork" like it's a bad thing.
I used to but then I quit.