Motherboard upgrade to my P3

[Fire$torm]

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?

[DrPop]

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!

[John P. Myers]

lol you won a Gigabyte board. Congratulations! You'll have no regrets with it

[trigggl]

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.

[Fire$torm]

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?

[trigggl]

Is that for Gentoo?

Absotively!

[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.

[Fire$torm]

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!!!!!

[trigggl]

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.

[trigggl]

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:


"New and in Box" is relative, I guess:


Fuzzy closeup: