My comp was cold an silent for 3 days.
Hope you guys had a good Christmas.
On a side not I decided I needed a new air cooler because my stock AMD cooler's fan was getting loud on cold days (15F outside right now). So I went looking for a good cooler on E-bay. I had a Sempron64 2500+ @ about 1800mhz and it served me well but I figured I might find a deal on a CPU/Heatsink combo. I found a Athlon64 3000+ and an XP-90 cooler with a 92mm Panaflow on it. I bid $45.00 and won the auction... Now I type on my comp with a 3000+ running stock at 2000mhz at 31C with the XP-90 at 45% voltage. I can now hear my other case fan over it.
Not a bad deal for $55 shipped. I gained 600mhz over the stock 2500+ and 200mhz over it OC'ed all for $55 and I have not tried OC'ing it yet. I hear these go to 2500mhz pretty easy. The Sempron at 1800mhz ran at 31C with the stock cooler.
My current system:
AMD Athlon 3000+ @ 2000mhz
Abit NF8
XP-90 with Panaflow 92mm Fan
1 gig PC2700
200gig 7200RPM Maxtor ATA 8meg cache HD
CD/DVD burner
Saphire/ATI XP1600Pro 256meg Vid Card
Windows XP-Home
Nothing I throw at it slowed it down with the Sempron at 1800mhz so I expect this system to last until this time next year. Only thing I might change is upgrading to 2 gigs of ram and maybe Windows Vista if I get a deal on it.
Anyway Happy New Year!