JapresTEF Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) As a day old newbie on this site, thanks to whomever gave this submission a "like" http://hwbot.org/submission/2257353_japrestef_3dmark03_geforce_7950_gt_agp_20235_marks and let me suggest this thread as a possible "Best mb flash unlocks before OC'g" discussion venue (or if one exists the mod can move this there) because I am looking for what should be my next project(s) after the 2 I describe here. I am quite proud to have done the above submission on just the 250W original oem PSU and all stock cooling in this 10 year old hyper-threading XP rig based off a Compaq retail S5400NX computer that I mb bios flash unlocked to a ASUS P4G800-V so that I could max upgrade to a P4 3.4 EXTREME EDITION CPU and add max memory for a total of 2 MB of Patriot Dual Extreme Performance sticks at 2-3-2-5. Add to that an XFX 7950GT AGP as the max AGP GPU (ostensibly in its day it held the claim as the fastest AGP ever made and hands down beats even today's XFX non OC'd HD4650 AGP) For the submission I did overclock the 7950 AGP unlike the CPU which was left at stock settings because I was worried as a newbie about rumors that the AGP/PCI bus can be a fragile issue in OC'g and end up corrupting the hard drive. I hope to get feedback on what more I should do. P.S. I have yet to start submitting on another rig that I just did something similiar to but with AMD.... i.e. a retail ASUS ESSENTIO CM-1630 mb flash unlocked to ASUS M4A78LT-M permitting me to upgrade from Athlon II X2 220 to Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition which I managed to unlock into a very stable 3 core CPU and a stable 4 core but only with freq reduction resulting in equivalent performance as the 3 core and now just upgraded to Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition all on original oem PSU and stock cooling and still on mb integrated graphics. Again any suggestions with the AMD rig especially as to what the end of the line fastest GPU is for it that I should get would be helpful. Thanks to all in advance. Edited February 21, 2012 by JapresTEF layout Quote
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