"Bite the bullet?" thanks Chris, you writing the check on that new system for me? AM2, Are you serious? Personally I'm waiting for the Asus Rampage to ship & I will build a Q6600 Intel system, screw AMD.
Meanwhile the XP box is more than capable of playing HL2 at decent frame rates and has a brand new AGP video card (had to replace that dead 9800) useless on a PCI-E system. In other words perfect for the kids to game on, hell it's been enough for me. So no I did not want to spend $75 on a CPU only to find it was another shit Antec PSU that is now out of warranty. Certainly did not want to then have to spend another $50-60 on the seemingly no longer made by any quality company ATX 1.3 PSU. To dump an otherwise functional system over $150 in repairs to keep it running vs. $1000+ for new makes no sense to me esp. with two kids and only one other game pc in the house. Saving grace, I may be able to resell the XP-M that is not the problem after all. I know I could resell the Sempron & break even despite Chris' surprise. ;) Chris Reeves wrote: > $78?!?!?! Seriously a le-1640 at $25 less would wipe the floors. Just bute the bullet go am2 and be done. :) > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:46:55 > To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Need AMD XP Sempron CPU > > > Yes, silly me! Picked up a new Sempron 3300+ for $75 > which is essentially a XP > 3200+ Barton. Unfortunately it ended up being my (2nd) > shit Antec TruePower 480W > toasting caps on the 5V rail which is what Asus A7N8X > uses for vcore causing the > problem. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping