I bet she would be "useful"....hehehehehehe
How be the new system for ya? Crunching big numbers?
Totally missed this post. It got buried since I haven't been around here as much.
Seven is humming away.......... Keeping up her end. The only minor issue being that I can hear every little squeak and squeal she makes, as she does her thing, since she is not fully incased. Still, she is not as noisy as my second Ex.......
Many innuendos there....very good. Nice to hear about 7 but I was actually asking about your new system. How does it crunch?
Oh... DUH!!!!! You were asking about Blackie. Blackie's upgrade was doing ok, but doing better now. That was the system the hacker/intruder snuck into. And since I was having trouble with the Hdds, I decided it was time to to do a fresh install of windows. Thought the hard drives were failing due to high bad sector counts. Turns out I had missed a setting in BIOS. I am used to Intel systems with separate SATA & RAID settings. Not so with this AMD so never had the SATA controller fully enabled. So now AHCI is my acronym for the week.
Anyhow Blackie is doing much better. I even got the Phenom OC'd to 3.1Ghz
Thanks for asking.
This post is a thank you to Shiva.
Some time ago Shiva announced he had some single PCIe boards he was offering the team. I used one of the boards he shipped to upgrade Seven-Of-Nine. So I thought I would post the results of his generosity.
The MB, CPU & RAM all courtesy of Shiva
The MB did have one little issue of capacitor syndrome with a 6.3v 3300uF electrolytic. Found a replacement from my old Abit P4 board. See, some times it pays not to throw out old tech.
Glad that Abit board was good for something. Is that an empty pci-e slot yearning for a modest to high end gpu?