I so totally rock!

[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...)  :)

[ctjoyce]

as you should be and System X with the proper skin should work jsut fine.

[Wing Nut]

System X?  ???

[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

[Wing Nut]

I can't seem to find it.  Do you have a link?  :P

[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

[Wing Nut]

Well, here is the end result.

[asda_price]

You should have bought an FX-55.  ;)

[ctjoyce]

or a P4 with hyper threading

wOOt!!!!!PRESCOTTwOOt!!!!!!!!

[Wing Nut]

On a socket 370?  Yeah, that would work...  ;)

[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.

[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

[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.

[ctjoyce]

but the new Prescott P4's with Hyper threading completely own anything. Even AMD camt match them with out being overclocked.

[asda_price]

The Prescott is hardly something I would call new.