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Reply #15 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 2:32pm

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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?

Kevin
(a bit proud of himself right now...)

Hmm, your FSB Speed has dropped from 133 to 100, and your L2 Cache on your "New" Celeron is half that of the PIII (128 vs 256k)

I'd whip that Celeron out, Benchmark your machine with the old PIII then re run the same with the "New" - Personally, I'd have thought you've actually lost some performance overall!

Not to worry, you now understand how relatively easy it is to build a PC - Congratulations! you should be pleased! Wink

I'd do some further research,Graphics & RAM , and you'll very soon have all you need to know to build a top end system for bottom end money. - Which is my strategy in PC's, top end cards etc are for top end wallets, you don't need to break the bank to get impressive results when building from scratch.

An example, My board has an "SIS" chipset, I did some research and found the chipset in question to be as quick as Intel chipset'ed motherboards, but, was £40 to buy rather than the £140 of its Intel competiton! - I invested the money saved in what ultimately resulted in a very poor choice of GFX card, my -now retired - Geforce FX5600.

This time round, having learned my lesson, I researched as much as I could about 3D Cards, and I have made a better choice.

We all make mistakes, especially when trying to match PC components(!) it can sometimes be an expensive learning curve, enjoy learning!

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Reply #16 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 7:35pm

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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.

Read this and weep.
http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041019/

And I have a Pentium EE 3.73 ghz right now. It kills the fx-55 in video encoding (especially mpeg, which is the standard.) However, it lags behind in gaming. Waaaay behind. A 3500 a64 can beat it even in some games (like quake 3).

http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050221/prescott-08.html

Intel really has to play catchup right now as video production is a really small sector.

As for servers, again, AMD Operterons kill Xeons. this is from personal experience, remember that comp I built (and am still building). Plus, I can back it up with benchmarks:
http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040927/index.html

I have nothing against intel. In fact, I still prefer Intels. All but 5 of my custom rigs use intels, not AMDs.

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Reply #17 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 7:49pm

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The reason for the replacement wasn't to increase the speed, although that is a nice benefit. It was to teach myself how to do it before I do it to my main rig. My 2.4 Gig P4 is starting to get a bit long in the tooth, so I thought I might upgrade it. As it stands, right now, the final frontier for me is installing an operating system from scratch. I've done just about everything else there is to do on a PC now, from Ram to installing drives, to the processor...

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Reply #18 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 7:58pm

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actually installing an OS from scratch isnt all that hard

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Reply #19 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 8:07pm

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actually installing an OS from scratch isnt all that hard

Yeah, with windows, just answer some questions and wait.

But it depends on what OS. Some OS are a pain to install,

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Reply #20 - Apr 7^th, 2005 at 11:59pm

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I cannot believe how easy this is! People actually get PAID for this? Shocked

yeah, it's really really easy. I could probably teach a reasonably intellegent ten year old how to build a computer if all goes as planned. It's when things don't go as they should that all the training comes in handy. Like when Windows happily installs it's own sound card driver without asking you and then refuses to let you update it saying "A more current driver is already installed for that device" and the device isn't working with the "current" driver. Roll Eyes

Gotta love Bill don't ya? Grin

Don't sweat an OS install. It's much easier than anything else you've done. Set the CD drive as the boot device, drop the CD in and let her rip. Then spend two weeks turning off all the handy helpful (yeah right) little info popups designed to make your life miserable. Grin

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