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I so totally rock!
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Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:44 pmby Wing Nut
Well, after being afraid of screwing around with changing a processor for months, I finally broke down and bought one for my testbed system to experiment with. I cannot believe how easy this is! People actually get PAID for this? :o It took me 20 minutes, and that is with having never done it before. Most of that was spent figuring how to unsnap the darn heat sink to get it out.
So now, my old beat up 866 mhz Intel PIII is now an old beat up 1.1 Ghz Intel Celeron.
The only thing I need now is a way to monitor the core temp. Anyone know of a little freeware program for that?
Kevin
(a bit proud of himself right now...) :)
Re: I so totally rock!
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Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:03 pmby ctjoyce
as you should be
and System X with the proper skin should work jsut fine.
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:00 amby Wing Nut
System X? ???
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:57 amby ctjoyce
its a desktop tool that shows you verious system processes such as fan speed, cpu core temps, ram useage, the weathar. basically whatever ou want it does
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:16 amby Wing Nut
I can't seem to find it. Do you have a link? :P
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:40 pmby Mozz
One I have been using to monitor my core temp is called speedfan. Just go to
www.download.com and search for speedfan and it should come up. Monitors fan speeds, temperatures of hard drives and cpu etc and makes graphs ;D
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:07 pmby Wing Nut
Well, here is the end result.
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:21 pmby asda_price
You should have bought an FX-55. ;)
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:52 pmby ctjoyce
or a P4 with hyper threading
wOOt!!!!!PRESCOTTwOOt!!!!!!!!
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:54 pmby Wing Nut
On a socket 370? Yeah, that would work... ;)
Re: I so totally rock!
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Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:29 pmby the_autopilot
or a P4 with hyper threading
wOOt!!!!!PRESCOTTwOOt!!!!!!!!
The fx-55 is better...unless you you do video encoding and stuff along that line.
Re: I so totally rock!
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Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:31 amby washburn_it
Bus decreased to 100 MHz because all Celeron processors for Socket 370 run at 100 Mhz.
Did you try some benchmark to see if you had a speed growth? (1st with PIII 866, then with Celeron).
Regards
Bob
Re: I so totally rock!
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Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:34 amby asda_price
The fx-55 is better...unless you you do video encoding and stuff along that line.
I think that the FX-55 are the nails in the P4 EE's coffin... the former CPU is rapidly catching up on the P4's video encoding capabilities.
Re: I so totally rock!
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Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:08 amby ctjoyce
but the new Prescott P4's with Hyper threading completely own anything. Even AMD camt match them with out being overclocked.
Re: I so totally rock!
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Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:33 amby asda_price
The Prescott is hardly something I would call new.