PC Upgrade??

[Cebu_4_2]

Ok it's been a while (12 years) and since my kids PC absolutely rips my shit and pulverizes it I felt I had to up step him (if I can)

I scored 52 bux on this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=111027783006

And am trying to hide it from said kid. If I am going to be fukt just don't bother replying.
I got his stuff to the point that it's better than mine... sucks for me, I can't even watch anything without CPU totally locking up the rules (100% constantly).

Whatever, I should go to sleep.
Was reading the Opteron suks cause its for server etc. Just gonna pop this assembly into a mid tower and power on. whole kit for 52 to my door.

Ok time to slam me.

Night all.
Another beer! Shoot I think I can surf the GSUS board a minute.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Mobo upgrades are always fun. Have fun with the silver paste for the cpu/heatsink join

[Carl]

Shop NewEgg.com. I would suggest an AMD system board and boxed CPU.

[mamboni]

Ok it's been a while (12 years) and since my kids PC absolutely rips my shit and pulverizes it I felt I had to up step him (if I can)

I scored 52 bux on this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=111027783006

And am trying to hide it from said kid. If I am going to be fukt just don't bother replying.
I got his stuff to the point that it's better than mine... sucks for me, I can't even watch anything without CPU totally locking up the rules (100% constantly).

Whatever, I should go to sleep.
Was reading the Opteron suks cause its for server etc. Just gonna pop this assembly into a mid tower and power on. whole kit for 52 to my door.

Ok time to slam me.

Night all.
Another beer! Shoot I think I can surf the GSUS board a minute.

Paragraph 17, on page 4 of the instruction manual, in very small print: DO NOT install CPU and apply silver heat-conductive paste while intoxicated.

[gunDriller]

Ok it's been a while (12 years) and since my kids PC absolutely rips my shit and pulverizes it I felt I had to up step him (if I can)

I scored 52 bux on this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=111027783006

Night all.
Another beer! Shoot I think I can surf the GSUS board a minute.


what kind of beer ?


i was going to suggest, the 95 watt version of the AMD 6 core.

lower power consumption, plenty fast.

i have been using it to encode videos for about 2 weeks now, it seems as fast (or faster) than the 6-core Intel (3930K & Xeon equivalent).

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1724262&CatId=4432

$100


MB wise, i got some Asus MB, micro-ATX size, in that system.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=M4A88T-M-PB-R&cat=MBB

$48


i had the extra RAM. also, Newegg had a special a few months ago on the 300 GB Velociraptor ... $70.


the whole system is Intel free, and therefore Israel-free. wonderful little work-horse system. the AMD 1045T system keeps up with a much more expensive system with 2 solid-state drives - and it doesn't even have a video card - it uses on-board video, the 880G chipset.

[Cebu_4_2]

the whole system is Intel free, and therefore Israel-free.

Ok Skule me on this ^

[joboo]

I'm more worried about breaking a pin now. If you bend one by mistake, when inserting the chip, they snap off when moved back.

I just upgraded my motherboard a couple months ago. Beast mode enabled once again. Long gone are the days of overclocking celeron's for an extra 150Mhz.

[Cebu_4_2]

The one in the kit is an Opteron 1220SE

Server setup to the max.

Been looking into options until this one popped up, CPU, memory, everything in 1 kit plus it will be able to movie direct to the big screen with 5.1 dolby.

[gunDriller]

Ok Skule me on this ^

the more recent versions of the Intel chips, Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge, were designed and/or fab'ed at the Intel plant in Palestine.

i think it applies to the 3930K (socket 2011) generation, and also to the next half-generation, e.g. the 3770K (socket 1155).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge

"Developed primarily by the Israel branch of Intel, the codename was originally "Gesher" (meaning "bridge" in Hebrew). The name was changed to avoid being associated with the defunct Gesher political party;[5] the decision was led by Ron Friedman, vice president of Intel managing the group at the time.[1] Intel demonstrated a Sandy Bridge processor with A1 stepping at 2 GHz during the Intel Developer Forum in September 2009."

"Models and steppings

All Sandy Bridge processors with one, two, or four cores report the same CPUID model 0206A7h[9] and are closely related. The stepping number can not be seen from the CPUID but only from the PCI configuration space. The later Sandy Bridge-E processors with up to eight cores and no graphics are using CPUIDs 0206D6h and 0206D7h.[10] Ivy Bridge CPUs all have CPUID 0306A9h to date, and are built in four different configurations differing in the number of cores, L3 cache and GPU execution units."


what i wonder about is - what is currently the best deals on hard drives, i.e., reliable hard drives ?


there's been a humongous shuffling of vendors. Seagate bought Maxtor, AND Samsung. WestDig bought Hitachi, then divested the 3 1/2" division to Toshiba.

of course, Hitachi did have the "Death star" saga, a play on the name "Desk Star."

i nominate this, just to get the conversation rolling -

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3303660&RSort=2&csid=ITD&body=#CustomerReviewsBlock

Toshiba 1 TB, $70.

also, the Seagate/ Samsung 103SJ. i had about 4 of them from when they were still Samsung.


it used to be, a solid consensus would build up that some hard drives were really good.

as they go into the higher areal densities ...as opposed to, Areola densities :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areola

the reliability seems to have gone in the crapper. (i mean, the hard drives, not the breasts.)

[Cebu_4_2]

Did it. Took a bit to get all the chips running on board. Can't seem to get the CPU over 17% no matter what I'm throwing at it. Got 2 movies playing (sound silenced) and Sweet playing along with 2 windows of farmville and fakebook. Hope to get the memory working later, only have 2 gigs up, should be 8 but that might be in another deal I need to run. OK 0%-17% I lied.

[steyr_m]

I upgraded my P3 733 Mhz machine last year, I bought this big/burley CPU, lots of RAM, etc. I now regret it. I mostly use a web-browser, play music, watch movies.

If I were to do it all over again, I'd get a atom processor mini itx machine. ~ $100 for everything but the RAM and HDD. The one below has a DC in port so it will run even quieter.

http://ark.intel.com/products/56455/Intel-Desktop-Board-DN2800MT

All the different ones

http://ark.intel.com/products/series/49428/Intel-Desktop-Boards-with-Intel-Atom-Processors

[steyr_m]

ooops, too late.