New CPU going in. Athlon64 3000 to Athlon 64 x2 4600

[DS1]

Just flashed the BIOS, wish me luck!


/nerd

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Don't flash your BIOS at me!

:o

[Deja Q]

2. Did the BIOS wink after you flashed it?

:hide:

Bad joke; hope the upgrade works for ya! You'll see a HUGE* improvement in performance...

* No pun intended; there was no entirely innocently sounding adjective to use...

[DS1]

10. I can tell how slow my main drive is now

stupid house fire knocked out one of the stripe drives in my raid system a while back.

[flvegan]

3. I lurves my Athlon.

I have the 3200. Probably don't need the upgrade like you do.

Good luck!

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Is this a sex thread?

[Deja Q]

48. Look at all the chatter surrounding "sockets", and voila!

:evilgrin:

[GirlinContempt]

5. Why not an FX60?

:P

But, I hear the power consumption in the x2 series is pretty good, considering. Especially vs the Pentium D.

[DS1]

6. Socket 939

this is the last of the series for this mobo, it's a 60 dollar upgrade for a much faster system

and yes, this indicates that there was success. now to tweak the BIOS and get it up to full speed

[GirlinContempt]

8. Ahhh

Well, bravo :D

[Xipe Totec]

7. Come back and post afterwards

so we know you didn't totally maim your system.

Nothing scarier than flashing an new BIOS.

[DS1]

9. I'm back

asus's support site was down, so when I had to flash the BIOS again for the board to up the timing to 2400 from 1800mhz I had to get the newer revision from a third party site. The second flash froze the system, stopped-heart, so I hit the reset button and it was all good. whew.

Still, it's flying now, gradients in massive photoshop documents are screamin fast now. Not Penryn fast of course, but hey, cheap upgrade from slowed to fastest proc for this board - which was the plan all along from 2 years ago
:bounce:

[Xipe Totec]

11. Congratulations!

ASUS used to scare the living Jesus out of me.

We would give them a test driver for a new device, ask them to test it, and next thing we knew they were shipping it out with another batch of motherboards.

I'm no longer in the business, but I still have flashbacks... :scared:

[DS1]

12. wow, the firefox on du with all its tables is teh fast

yes, I'm going to be providing commentary, regardless of how few views this gets :D


although, my left shift key seems to have shit the bed, probably because I use it for 'run/sprint' in FPS games

[GirlinContempt]

13. oooh tell us more

:popcorn:

[Blue-Jay]

18. Yes! It's starting to get interesting!

[DS1]

20. It's like I gave the system a strong cup of coffee

:yoiks:

[Blue-Jay]

32. I hate coffy.

[DS1]

19. Lightroom runs like it should

1,000 images show up in thumbnail mode in an instant, instead of grinding away


:happy dance:

[GirlinContempt]

24. rawr

[TommyO]

34. woohoo again, I'm a Lightroom user and absolutely lurv it.

Since I'm using a basic video card on my PowerMac, Aperture would be a test of my patience, but Lightroom runs wonderfully on my Mac, and I've used it on my slow as molasses Windows machine from work as well.

[Omphaloskepsis]

14. Yes, a processor upgrade hosed a keyboard button that you use often.

PBKAC

[DS1]

16. I didn't link the two

:eyes:

[TommyO]

33. Woohoo on the system upgrades

I'm running an old school PowerMac G5, dual-core 2.3Mhz machine here, but am working with my brother on planning his next PC which will probably be an overclocked Core 2 Duo machine. Even though I'm a Mac-head now, I built every single Windows machine that I've ever owned before buying this Mac 1 yr, 11 months ago.

[DS1]

36. What I did 2 years ago

was buy a motherboard that was going to last awhile, and the cheapest processor with it. That cut down on upfront costs.

I'd recommend you buy something that supports the 45 nm 'Penryn' processors and up, but also the core2 duos. Those 45 nm systems absolutely scream, but of course they're over a grand per processor at the moment.

[entanglement]

42. $1150 for the new QX9650

4 cores, 3.0 Ghz, 12 MB cache, 1333 FSB

:cry:

[Pierre.Suave]

15. How does that compare to the

Core 2 duo I got in my mac at 2.4 ghz?

It is awesome by teh way...

[DS1]

17. probably similar

same freq, dual core, but I'm biased towards AMD anyway

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Meh

MY computer's got a Keith Black 454 dynoed at 577 HP at 6,600 RPM. :P

[DS1]

22. That's not very green

of you. Does it run on lager?

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Close

Alcohol. :D

[Pierre.Suave]

23. how do you play games on it?

Thats what I want to know...

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. In about 7.22 seconds

:headbang:

[Pierre.Suave]

27. that doesnt even make sense...

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Sense costs extra

[Pierre.Suave]

29. in that case

I just will give up caring...

[DS1]

30. that took way longer than 7 seconds

[Pierre.Suave]

31. haha

that was funny, but I got to go.

[billyskank]

35. Good luck!

I am waiting on the final piece of my new computer too. I have a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz inside an Antec case all built but waiting for a GeForce 8800GT to arrive before I can start to power it up. The graphics card should come on Monday. I can't wait!

[DS1]

37. already done

and damn, nice job finding that 8800GT, that's my next upgrade.

[Steven_S]

52. You're gonna like the 8800GT,,,,

I recently upgraded to an 8800GT OC2 from BFG. Crysis on medium - COD4 and everything else is maxed and sweet as can be.

I ordered direct from BFG Tech. It arrived in 49 hours and installed in 15 minutes.

Life is good.

[Twillig]

46. My 8800GT didn't fit my goddam antec mid tower case.

God damn disk drive bays. Never been madder at a computer in my life.

Had to buy another antec case (all my local guy has) which has the bays you can slide the drives in from the side.

Whee!

[Deja Q]

49. Which model? My Antec case had no problems with my 8800GTS

Of course, it was a $100 full height tower... :blush:

Net weight w/components is 39 pounds.

[billyskank]

53. Well I really hope it fits in this case.

If it doesn't fit in an £80 Antec P182 then I'll be pretty pissed. This is supposed to be a high end case. x(

[Wcross]

55. Coolermaster Cosmos case is really nice.

I bought one when I upgraded and the space inside is amazing. The hard drives are mounted sideways & the dvd drives are up and out of the way. It took both of my 8800 cards with ease. There is sooo much room inside it is amazing.

[HamstersFromHell]

38. Same jump I made a few months ago...

...except I went ahead and bought new mobo, case and all else, reusing only my drives.

Good choice for a CPU, not expensive but does rock compared to the old 3000.

What video you running in it since you've mentioned doing FPS?

[DS1]

39. I have an evga 6800GT

with one of the capacitors knocked off. It still runs fine, however. Built like a brick I guess, in fact I may have slighted OC'd it when I did knock that capacitor off :crazy:

Will be upgrading to an 8800GT when I can find one, then beyond that, a new mobo and a quad-core of some sort.

[HamstersFromHell]

40. LOL...get outta my case!

That's what's sitting over there in the old puter...except it was a BFG OC'd 6800GT

Is your board SLI capable? Mine was an old 939 with 8x AGP, so I forced myself to upgrade to an SLI capable when I upgraded CPUs and ended up going socket AM2 for future upgrades.

I skipped on the 8800 and went to a 7950GT w/512 meg. for economy reasons. Will probably find another and SLI them even though an 8800 will still be faster. (I'm frugal, what can I say?)

What FPS you playing currently?

[DS1]

41. Yes

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. I play Portal and COD4 at the moment. Just finished the flashback SAS sniper mission, that was a bitch.

[HamstersFromHell]

43. Haven't played those...just coming back to FPS games...

...from MMORPGS.

Had an old 1800 AMD and a Ti250 and upgraded to play EQ2 to the Athlon and the 6800. (LOL, don't ya hate it when gaming drives our upgrading more than actual "work"?)

Got bored with it and tried WoW, got fed up with the "l337" kiddies and griefers in it went back to DAoC, but I just discovered Crysis. I haven't done any FPS since the old Doom days and OMG what a graphics paradise this little game is. I'm still working through the island and haven't even made shipboard or anything else, but I'm totally enthralled by this game.

[DS1]

44. I'll be trying to get a system with a free copy of Crysis

system before this was an Athlon1400 Tbird, geForce3 64MB.

definitely check out Portal, it's part of the "Orange Box" kit, and a load of fun

[HamstersFromHell]

45. Thanks!

I'd heard a lot about Half Life, but had not much of a clue what was in the Orange Box deal I'd seen advertised.

Check Newegg...some of the 8800 cards are shipping with free Crysis inside.

[billyskank]

54. My graphics card is coming bundled with Crysis.

EVGA superclocked 8800GT "Crysis Edition".

[Tuesday Afternoon]

47. I have no idea what you guys are talking about, yet I find myself

strangely aroused :blush:

do go on....

[DS1]

50. 2GB DDR2 400Mhz

nForce4 SLIx16 w/active cooling
3x SATA2 HD @ 7200 rpm
SB Live


:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. ~le sigh~

;)