Manaknight
Supreme [H]ardness
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so i'm grabbing the AMD combo at microcenter for a client build. She just needs a home computer to do billing/invoices etc for her brother who is pretty well off doing indie contracting in the area. she is on a some ancient system right now, maybe a p3 533 or something equally as horrid, win89 all that. so its wordperfect, word, internet..the usual but she wants something that will last so she wont have switch systems.
I was looking at the athlon II x4 640 deal, but keep reading about the successful unlocks on the 955. the L3 cache seems to make a difference in actual office work. My question is... what if any detriments are there to unlocking the 955 to a quad and leaving it at stock speeds otherwise? is this a bad idea for a system that i want as stable as possible and sort of a set and forget kinda setup.
She doesn't do a whole lot on the pc at home right now...though i suspect it will change to a home pc that is actually used once it can be actually..you know...used...128 megs of ram is not conducive to doing anything on a pc these days lol.
I was looking at the athlon II x4 640 deal, but keep reading about the successful unlocks on the 955. the L3 cache seems to make a difference in actual office work. My question is... what if any detriments are there to unlocking the 955 to a quad and leaving it at stock speeds otherwise? is this a bad idea for a system that i want as stable as possible and sort of a set and forget kinda setup.
She doesn't do a whole lot on the pc at home right now...though i suspect it will change to a home pc that is actually used once it can be actually..you know...used...128 megs of ram is not conducive to doing anything on a pc these days lol.