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Apr 3rd, 2005 at 11:44pm

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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?  Shocked  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?

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Reply #1 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 12:03am

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as you should be Grin Wink and System X with the proper skin should work jsut fine.
 
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Reply #2 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 10:00am

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System X?  ???
 
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Reply #3 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 11:57am

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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
 
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Reply #4 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 12:16pm

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I can't seem to find it.  Do you have a link?  Tongue
 
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Reply #5 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 1:40pm

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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  Grin
 
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Reply #6 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 3:07pm

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Well, here is the end result.  I forgot to upload these last might...  Grin

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Interesting the Bus speed actually dropped.  That's what I get for buying a Celeron, I guess...
 
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Reply #7 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 3:21pm
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You should have bought an FX-55.  Wink
 
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Reply #8 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 5:52pm

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or a P4 with hyper threading

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Reply #9 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 5:54pm

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On a socket 370?  Yeah, that would work...  Wink
 
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Reply #10 - Apr 4th, 2005 at 11:29pm

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The fx-55 is better...unless you you do video encoding and stuff along that line.
 
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Reply #11 - Apr 5th, 2005 at 9:31am

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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).
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Reply #12 - Apr 5th, 2005 at 9:34am
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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.
 
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Reply #13 - Apr 5th, 2005 at 12:08pm

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but the new Prescott P4's with Hyper threading completely own anything. Even AMD camt match them with out being overclocked.
 
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Reply #14 - Apr 5th, 2005 at 12:33pm
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The Prescott is hardly something I would call new.  Wink

The FX-55 beats anything up to a P4 2.4GHz on video encoding - in my eyes anyway.

The FX-55 also nearly matches the P4 EE on video encoding and editing etc, without the need for overclocking. The FX-55 is without a doubt the best CPU out for gaming - but I'm saying this without yet testing the P4 EE 3.75GHz though. I can quite safely predict that the new Extreme Edition thrashes the FX-55 in video editing and stuff.

But, with Vapochill or watercooling, a little overclocking on the FX-55 won't do any harm!  Cheesy

I personally opted for a dual Intel Xeon set-up for my PC and not for a dual AMD Opteron set-up.... although I haven't tried out a PC with the latter set-up, I am extremely happy with my Xeons.  Grin
 
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