RE: (got flamed) Overclock them suckers!!

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@texas.net)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1999 - 15:22:40 EDT


Personally, I purchased (and promptly returned) a Voodoo3 AGP card....the
Diamond Viper 770 is about the fastest damn thing i've seen yet. (I can
run Quake2 @ 1280x1024 without any video problems).

I saw the fan you were referring to...nice...but freekin' expensive.

At 11:23 AM 06/15/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Bernd - My bad, I though you were talkin about the
>"whopper sandwich" fan that is like 60 bones. The dual
>pII fan is what I need to get a hold of, I've been
>contemplating getting the Riva TNT2 Ultra and it gets
>hooootttt in there.
>
>Preacher - Sounds like you got a nice little setup,
>gotta get that cable modem in the pIII, that thing
>will be smokin. I dont know or havent heard of any way
>to overclock the pIII's, I think they are all
>multiplier locked, but go check out
>http://www.overclockers.com if ya get a minute, it's
>very informative.
>
>Later
>Jack Yates
>'99 Black CC R/T
>
>--- David Preacher Slocum <preacher@carolina.rr.com>
>wrote:
>> It's funny that we should be talking about computer
>> speeds this week. I
>> have a cable modem hooked to a P166...... the damn
>> modem is faster than the
>> computer is! I got tired of not being able to keep
>> up with my son's PII 400
>> (I installed a network at home and we game together)
>> and ordered a new
>> system this week. It's a PIII 450 w/ 256 megs of
>> ram, 13Gig HD and a Voodoo
>> 3 3000 card. I paid extra for a double CPU fan
>> ($29.00) and for a double
>> case fan (another $29.00). I think the extra $$ will
>> be a deal in the long
>> run.... Now onto the question.... can you overclock
>> a PIII ? ANyone tried
>> this? (Don't think I will need to for a while, but
>> it would be handy to
>> know when Intel comes out with it's 1gig cpu next
>> year :-)
>>
>> Preacher
>> 99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
>> Charlotte, NC
>> http://www.bastaards.org
>>
>>
>> At 10:36 AM 6/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> >The Dual Fan setups (not doulble-sided) for the
>> PII's are only $29.95.
>> >
>>
>> Preacher
>> 99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
>> Charlotte, NC
>> http://www.bastaards.org
>>
>>
>
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