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Originally posted by CheesePizzaMan
You can't really "OC" your 3200. At least not as much as you'd have been able to OC a mobile 2500 or 2400. THe mobile chips are unlocked, and the 3200's are not. I guess you could buy a 3200, sever some of the bridges to make it a mobile, and then oc it with software, but it would have been much easier to buy a cheap 80 dollar 2400xp mobile chip that will fly right past a stock 3200. I agree with you that a 3200 is just fine for now. I just think that it is great to save money on the chip if money is an issue. You'd have 230-the cost of a better heatsink than the one you bought (thermalright is about 40 bucks if memory serves). That goes a hell of a long way towards a good vid card. I know that it may be too late, and overclocking isn't for everybody. I havn't been "burned" yet by a bad 2400 mobile or 2500 mobile, so I just thought I'd recommend 'em. Or 4 of em, for the price of one 3200.
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You gotta remember that he's buying an Athlon 64 3200+. You'll be very hard pressed to OC an Athlon XP to Athlon 64 3200+ speed/power. An Athlon 64 3200+ has 1 MB of L2 cache...there's simply no getting around the raw power boost that Athlon 64's get.
-Lasereth
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