>Hey all,
>
>I'm looking to buy a couple PIII 650's, and being new to the area, I was
>wondering what everyone thinks the best hardware store is, as far as
>overclocker-friendlyness and prices on bleeding edge stuff goes. I'd
>really like to be able to try out these CPUs to judge their
>overclockability before I get stuck with them...
if over clocking is what you want, go with the athlon. a 550 can be clocked
up to 800 without any problems. twice the cache and less expensive than any
p3. but try
http://www.valleycpu.com for your parts. but don't know of
anyone that would simply let you 'test drive' a cpu.
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