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SmokeRngs said:
I have three C0 stepping Q6600s. The two retail CPUs did 9x400 with no problem although the OEM one couldn't do better than 3.5Ghz. One of those Q6600s was running at 3.6Ghz for more than ten years without a problem.
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Nice! I just want to see what it was like to mod the cpu and have it just run faster like that. I've never done it before as the most I ever did was used a 486slc to upgrade a 286 to a 486.
 
SamirD said:
:D I have one! I didn't think they had more room than the q6600. :D
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Not sure how much room they have over a Q6600, but they have a 10x multiplier, which lets you go to 4 GHz while maintaining a 1600 MHz FSB that doesn't throw everything off. Even if you can only get a 1333 MHz bus, you're still way ahead of a QX6850. Those things are still hideously expensive, even being almost 16 years old.

Too bad Intel didn't make Wolfdale quads with a 1066 MHz bus. The Pentium E series with Wolfdale-3M cores were monster overclockers. You could go +1000 MHz on stock voltage and they wouldn't even care.
 
GiGaBiTe said:
Not sure how much room they have over a Q6600, but they have a 10x multiplier, which lets you go to 4 GHz while maintaining a 1600 MHz FSB that doesn't throw everything off. Even if you can only get a 1333 MHz bus, you're still way ahead of a QX6850. Those things are still hideously expensive, even being almost 16 years old.

Too bad Intel didn't make Wolfdale quads with a 1066 MHz bus. The Pentium E series with Wolfdale-3M cores were monster overclockers. You could go +1000 MHz on stock voltage and they wouldn't even care.
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Thank you for the great info as usual! The target motherboard only accepts 1066 fsb cpus, so no chance I'm messing with the fsb on the q6700, but great to know they have that capability. :)

So on the wolfdale monster overclockers, you mean like the pentium and e5800 e6700?
https://www.cpu-world.com/Compare_C...M,Intel_HH80562PH0678MK,Intel_HH80562XJ0808M/

The e8600 is nice when you just want single thread performance. It's amazing how close it is in performance to the i3-560. The same thing happened in the first i-core generation with the i5-680 dual core which would touch the single thread performance of the quad core i5-2400:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...Intel-i3-560-vs-Intel-i5-680-vs-Intel-i5-2400

For me, it's about just maxing out whatever a particular system was capable of without going too crazy and then just use it until it dies and then rebuild it. I still have s478 pentiums that are running. :) In fact, I finally got some 512MB sdram modules to try 1.5GB of ram on it.
 
Given away. Gone Anyone need this stuff? I am guessing
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about $25.00 or less in the lower 48. I really want to get rid of all of it at once. The Hyper is unused. I might have an extra mounting kit that maybe has an AM4 it but no promises on that one. Will throw in if I find it.
 
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I'm trying to help a member out who bought a 3570k from me and found out the K series wont work on his board. He has a H-Joshua-H61-uATX (HP board) that was running an i3-2330.

Would anyone have a non K i5-3570 to trade for the K version?
 
buschman31 said:
I'm trying to help a member out who bought a 3570k from me and found out the K series wont work on his board. He has a H-Joshua-H61-uATX (HP board) that was running an i3-2330.

Would anyone have a non K i5-3570 to trade for the K version?
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Looking at the specs for the motherboard and from my experience with HPs, either he needs to update his bios to the latest version first, or he has a bad processor. Usually all the K variants are supported if the non-k is supported, and the non-k is definitely supported in the entire lga1155 series according to this document:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03506147

I would have him put back in the stock cpu and see if it still works, if not, it wasn't the 3570k that did it. If it does, then he just needs to try it again or try another processor.
 
SamirD said:
Looking at the specs for the motherboard and from my experience with HPs, either he needs to update his bios to the latest version first, or he has a bad processor. Usually all the K variants are supported if the non-k is supported, and the non-k is definitely supported in the entire lga1155 series according to this document:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03506147

I would have him put back in the stock cpu and see if it still works, if not, it wasn't the 3570k that did it. If it does, then he just needs to try it again or try another processor.
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The i5-3xxxk isn't. I checked the hp site page on the board for the cpu upgrade.
 
buschman31 said:
The i5-3xxxk isn't. I checked the hp site page on the board for the cpu upgrade.
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They never specify the k versions in specs, but they will work if the non-k does. All of my HPs and Dells have been upgraded this way to the k version since it was cheaper/more readily available (including that system I got from you a few years back :)).
 
GiGaBiTe said:
There are HP and Dell models that don't support K series CPUs. There are also models that only support Sandy Bridge chips and not Ivy Bridge. I've run across this issue numerous times.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Deskt...-for-CPU-Upgarde-Sandy-to/td-p/3098377/page/2

Someone else with presumably the same logic board that won't accept a 2500k.
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That's true too, but usually you'll see some pattern of limitations in the supported processors on the official lists. HP also sometimes has multiple motherboard part numbers that end up supporting different specs which could be the case here since their official specs also get revised with motherboard changes.
 
Probably won't get much interest, but I got an Early 2006 iMac (A1174) that was given to me by a customer because the hard drive died. I don't need the machine. It takes a standard 3.5" SATA drive, the mounting hardware is included. It has 2 GB of RAM.



Don't know much about it, other than it gets to the question folder because no bootable media. Comes with the keyboard and mouse that came with the unit.

If you pay shipping, you can have it. Else, it's going to the recycling pile.
 
GiGaBiTe said:
Probably won't get much interest, but I got an Early 2006 iMac (A1174) that was given to me by a customer because the hard drive died. I don't need the machine. It takes a standard 3.5" SATA drive, the mounting hardware is included. It has 2 GB of RAM.



Don't know much about it, other than it gets to the question folder because no bootable media. Comes with the keyboard and mouse that came with the unit.

If you pay shipping, you can have it. Else, it's going to the recycling pile.
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I'm interested

Just let me know how much shipping to 23607 would be
 
GiGaBiTe said:
I'm not giving away the HD4670 lol. It's going into my collection of nice old hardware.

There were some other AGP cards in that pile of stuff I found that I'm going to give away, but they're much older and probably won't have any interest. The best is an AIW Radeon 9600, but it's missing the pigtail. I went back and dug in the recycling pile but I couldn't find it. The other cards are a couple of TNT and TNT2 M64 cards.

Gwarren07 hooked me up with a Pentium D 945 and an additional 930, which is nice.
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Still have any of those old agp cards? Suddenly find myself in need...
 
mvmiller12 said:
I'm interested

Just let me know how much shipping to 23607 would be
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Well that was fast lol. I'll work on getting it boxed up and see what Fedex says.

atwood7fan said:
Still have any of those old agp cards? Suddenly find myself in need...
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Still have that AIW 9600, but no pigtail for it. I can test it with the cable from another one of my AIW cards, but you'll need to source the cable. They're not easy to find, they look like this:
https://i0.wp.com/the620guy.com/wp-.../20160629-ATI_AIW_9600_128M_NTSC__Cable_4.jpg

It might be possible to rig something up with male dupont headers, but it'd be a hacky mess.

Also still have some TNT2 M64 cards. I'll need to dig them out and test them. Don't want to send off potentially non-working cards, they've been in my horde for a very long time.
 
Gauging interest here, I'm in NYC and I have a free 2U Rackmount case for local pickup available if anyone is interested in the area. It looks like the picture below. Has a couple dings and scratches and the top panel has seen better days near the screw holes but has the case fans intact, sorry I don't have the key for this but the front panel is already unlocked. Compatible with ATX motherboards. I will have another one next week that is a 4U Rosewill Rackmount case next week for free as well.

If no interest, they will just end up in the trash after 3 weeks.

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The 4U Rosewill rackmount case I will be putting on the freebie list for pickup next week after I sort out all the internals. This rackmount case looks pristine, no dings and dents that I can see. I have the keys for the front panel lock for this one.
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Both Gone.
 
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fx9 said:
Gauging interest here, I'm in NYC and I have a free 2U Rackmount case for local pickup available if anyone is interested in the area. It looks like the picture below. Has a couple dings and scratches and the top panel has seen better days near the screw holes but has the case fans intact, sorry I don't have the key for this but the front panel is already unlocked. Compatible with ATX motherboards. I will have another one next week that is a 4U Rosewill Rackmount case next week for free as well.

If no interest, they will just end up in the trash after 3 weeks.



The 4U Rosewill rackmount case I will be putting on the freebie list for pickup next week after I sort out all the internals. This rackmount case looks pristine, no dings and dents that I can see. I have the keys for the front panel lock for this one.
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That rosewill works pretty decently for a GPU mining rig in case anyone wants to stock up on stuff while things are cheap. Won't fit some of the massive newer cards, but things like the 3xxx series FE cards fit great.
 
fx9 said:
Gauging interest here, I'm in NYC and I have a free 2U Rackmount case for local pickup available if anyone is interested in the area. It looks like the picture below. Has a couple dings and scratches and the top panel has seen better days near the screw holes but has the case fans intact, sorry I don't have the key for this but the front panel is already unlocked. Compatible with ATX motherboards. I will have another one next week that is a 4U Rosewill Rackmount case next week for free as well.

If no interest, they will just end up in the trash after 3 weeks.

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The 4U Rosewill rackmount case I will be putting on the freebie list for pickup next week after I sort out all the internals. This rackmount case looks pristine, no dings and dents that I can see. I have the keys for the front panel lock for this one.
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If you don't get any bites here, I'd post them up on reddit homelabsales and hardwareswap and they'll be gone in a day--those are excellent home labbing cases. :)
 
fx9 said:
The 4U Rosewill rackmount case I will be putting on the freebie list for pickup next week after I sort out all the internals.
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I'm on the wrong coast, but if you can find not obscene shipping, I'd be interested. But who wants to deal with shipping on a computer case?
 
fx9 said:
Gauging interest here, I'm in NYC and I have a free 2U Rackmount case for local pickup available if anyone is interested in the area. It looks like the picture below. Has a couple dings and scratches and the top panel has seen better days near the screw holes but has the case fans intact, sorry I don't have the key for this but the front panel is already unlocked. Compatible with ATX motherboards. I will have another one next week that is a 4U Rosewill Rackmount case next week for free as well.

If no interest, they will just end up in the trash after 3 weeks.

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The 4U Rosewill rackmount case I will be putting on the freebie list for pickup next week after I sort out all the internals. This rackmount case looks pristine, no dings and dents that I can see. I have the keys for the front panel lock for this one.
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I'm interested. Where in NYC are you? I'm just on the other side of the Hudson River.
 
fx9 said:
Gauging interest here, I'm in NYC and I have a free 2U Rackmount case for local pickup available if anyone is interested in the area. It looks like the picture below. Has a couple dings and scratches and the top panel has seen better days near the screw holes but has the case fans intact, sorry I don't have the key for this but the front panel is already unlocked. Compatible with ATX motherboards. I will have another one next week that is a 4U Rosewill Rackmount case next week for free as well.

If no interest, they will just end up in the trash after 3 weeks.

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The 4U Rosewill rackmount case I will be putting on the freebie list for pickup next week after I sort out all the internals. This rackmount case looks pristine, no dings and dents that I can see. I have the keys for the front panel lock for this one.
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What part of NY? I'm in CT (Next state over basically) care to ship if I cover the cost?
 
This is a stretch. Does anyone have the following Cooler Master 115x bracket from a Nepton series AIO? I only need the 115x brackets that attach to the pump itself as I have a backplate and standoffs that will work. This unit has been gathering dust because it only has the AM3 mounting bracket on it and the RL-AM4B-NEPS-R1 AM4 kit Cooler Master made is now impossible to find.

https://pcper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f8b2-14-intel-mount-profile.jpg
 
Beaflag VonRathburg said:
This is a stretch. Does anyone have the following Cooler Master 115x bracket from a Nepton series AIO? I only need the 115x brackets that attach to the pump itself as I have a backplate and standoffs that will work. This unit has been gathering dust because it only has the AM3 mounting bracket on it and the RL-AM4B-NEPS-R1 AM4 kit Cooler Master made is now impossible to find.

https://pcper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/f8b2-14-intel-mount-profile.jpg
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If all you need are the metal bars, just go out and buy some aluminum flatbar and fold it into the shape you need. The X clamp, screws and mounting studs are all over Ebay. It can be done with a bench vise, hammer, drill and a tap.
 
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