Well, I guess I'm going 64-bit too...

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited February 2005 in Hardware
I had always planned on getting a 64-bit system when dual Opteron boards with SLI had been out for at least a few months (so sometime this summer)... Well, I found an AMD Athlon 64 Engineering Sample CPU for sale on ebay the other day... and seeing as how I like weird/unique/hard-to-find hardware, I *had* to bid on it. With the exception of the lot of 5 FX-51 ESes that someone else on ebay wanted $850 for, it's only the second AMD ES CPU I've ever seen that's newer than a 486... and I've got the other one too (it's only a 550MHz Slot A Athlon) ;)

So yeah... anyhow, I won the auction... wasn't a bad price either. 2800s go for $100-$120 on Newegg... this one was $130... :)

Here's the auction if you're interested... I'll be sure to get pics and stuff when I get it... :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6740728377

Comments

  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited February 2005
    Way to go Geeky. Nice to have a win, specially with a hard to come by item. :thumbsup:
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    hatehatehatehatehatehatehateyou.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2005
    ;D 'sok Dras... If I find a couple of Opteron ESes I'll buy those first and tell you later too :p

    //EDIT
    I let you have that PIII board tho didn't I? So HA! :p
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited February 2005
    Omg dude u gota tell me what u get out of that chip. :D (overclocking that is)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    It won't overclock very well.

    The fact that it's a socket 754 2800-3200 means it's one of the early production samples we caught glimpses of at Computex and CeBit when the Athlon 64 was first able to run stably for a computing show. More than likely it overclocks like ****, as it's one of the very first non-internal core revisions.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2005
    ...the sound that you are hearing, ladies and gentlemen, that farting sound, is the sound of air rushing out of all of geeky's hopes and dreams... ;D

    No seriously, I don't know how well it'll OC, and I don't really care either. I didn't buy it for OCing reasons, as there's no reason to. ALL Athlon 64s are downwardly unlocked, and the new ones OC quite well. No reason to spend $130 on a CPU of unknown OCability if I wanted to OC it. I bought it simply because it's an AMD ES CPU. :)
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    I knew it!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2005
    ;D The smell is not my fault tho, I swear!!

    /me points at the dog
    HE DID IT!! ;D;D
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