> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800. This made me chuckle. For my computer I went though a bunch of local

> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800. This made me chuckle. For my computer I went though a bunch of local computer stores, going through all their CPU boxes and got lucky on the second day. There it was, an Athlon XP with AQZFA stepping. Overclocked twice as fast as the other models, and the coolest of CPUs in that generation. Overclocking of an AQZFA Athlon XP was as easy as using a pencil to draw a line in between the two right pins. The mods I've seen on LANs to cool this thing were something else. From custom-built PLC radiators to water cooling setups, which were the new hot stuff at the time.