> > > I suspect that 4 years of overclocking have fried my CPU slightly,
> > > so I'm looking for a replacement, but I'm too stingy to swap out
> > > the whole CPU/RAM/MB combination.
> > >
> > > So, I'm womdering if anyone's got a Socket A Thunderbird that is
> > > surplus to their requirements. Motherboard is an ASUS A7V with
> > > the KT133 chipset with PC133 RAM. FSB is 100MHz.
> > >
> > > My CPU is currently 750MHz, so I'll take anything from 750MHz up.
> > > (I may end up underclocking, depending on temperature levels,
> > > since I've got a nice quiet fan and don't want anything louder.)
> > >
> looks like it'll take a sempron if you're lucky.. they're like 40 EUR
> for a 1.7G processor. You're going to end up underclocking it anyway, as
> your FSB won't be 333.
The ASUS site doesn't list it as compatible, so I'm not going to
take the chance. Thing is that I'm not even 100% sure the fault
is with the CPU, so I'm thinking that EUR 30 is about the max I'm
going to spend on it.
Yup - I'm being really cheap :-)
Later,
Kenn
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