Greg,
Would you like a pair of replacements? Have a pair of matched 300a's and
one spare, never opened, retail 300a. LOL!
Odd, way back then it was 450 mega-hertz.
Now, we all talk about 2.3 giga-hertz-plus........ :)
How times have changed!
Best,
Duncan
On 02/20/2010 01:05, Greg Sevart wrote:
Oh, absolutely, but it doesn't always work out that way. Similar deal to the
old 300MHz Pentium II's with the SL2W8 s-spec. Most did 450MHz just fine,
but mine was always a little buggy. Then the Celeron 300A was the big thing,
and I got two, both did 464MHz all day long for a full 10 years before they
were finally knocked out of service by a PSU that went bad. Luck of the draw
on either side, I suppose.
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:04 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision
Yeah, I have to agree but if you read as many hardware reviews as I do
they practically say most will unlock and tout the bang for buck. I
have
a 0904 X3 720 BE that will unlock the 4th core stably and I bought it
the same day NewEgg began to sell them. That was before anybody knew
about ACC and unlocking cores/cache. I don't feel comfortable RMA'ing
it
as you say it works as advertised. Still, would have been nice to have
a
$104 quad core...
On 2/19/2010 3:04 PM, Greg Sevart wrote:
Unethical. If it runs at its designed and advertised specifications,
returning it for not exceeding them is just wrong. So is returning it
for
any reason or invoking the warranty now that you have overclocked and
overvolted it, IMO.
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:35 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision
Well my new CPU came yesterday and it overclocks to 4 GHz stably
with
1.4v which I don't consider excessive. However, it won't unlock the
other 2 cores so I expect there is a defect in 1 or more of the
unused
cores. What is the collectives opinion on sending it back for a
replacement? Ethical or not? What would you do if you wanted a cheap
dually that you wanted to run as a quad? Thanks!
