Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
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Originally Posted by
trigggl
Well, my top bid won the motherboard so I might as well be happy with it.
Next I'll need Ram, but I can borrow from the Dell for a bit. That will be 1G each until I get more. I may actually have everything I need to piece this together.
Sweet. How long before the MB arrives?
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
That's actually a surprisingly good O/Cing mobo. That's the one I put in my Dad's rig with the E6500 I used to have. It'll wrap that baby all the way out at 3.6GHz, when stock is 2.93GHz, so the FSB O/Cs very well. ;)
Good buy. Plus it's got built in VGA adapter to fall back on if you're ever crunching with a big GPU in there and something goes wonkey with the GPU or you need to pull it for some reason...overall a good buy, especially with the free shipping - I didn't see that before.
Let us know how the build-out goes!:cool:
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
lol you won a Gigabyte board. Congratulations! You'll have no regrets with it :)
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
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Originally Posted by
Fire$torm
Sweet. How long before the MB arrives?
The listing says between the 10th and the 16th.
I realized that I'm going to have to install a totally new operating system. I plan to go from 32 to 64-bit. I guess it's an opportunity to repartition the hard drive for maximum efficiency. Hopefully install will go fast using distcc with two dual cores.
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
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Originally Posted by
trigggl
The listing says between the 10th and the 16th.
I realized that I'm going to have to install a totally new operating system. I plan to go from 32 to 64-bit. I guess it's an opportunity to repartition the hard drive for maximum efficiency. Hopefully install will go fast using distcc with two dual cores.
Is that for Gentoo?
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
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Originally Posted by
Fire$torm
Is that for Gentoo?
Absotively! 3:-O
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
Got an email today saying the board shipped. It's coming from Illinois, so it shouldn't be too long.
I should probably purchase some Ram to go with it.
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
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Originally Posted by
trigggl
Got an email today saying the board shipped. It's coming from Illinois, so it shouldn't be too long.
I should probably purchase some Ram to go with it.
Good to hear. Just remember.... We want pictures!!!!!
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
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Originally Posted by
Fire$torm
Good to hear. Just remember.... We want pictures!!!!!
Well, the board is taking too long and the Ram is shipping from CA. NewEgg doesn't have any Ram in Memphis? I guess this will be a project for next weekend.
Re: Motherboard upgrade to my P3
The board arrived yesterday. Here are some grainy pictures taken with a camera phone. I'll use a real camera for the actual job.
The case the P3 is residing in:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4...1054000.th.jpg
"New and in Box" is relative, I guess:
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/2...1053800.th.jpg
Fuzzy closeup:
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/9...1053900.th.jpg