Computere Upgrade! Woohoo!

[audiofanaticz]

Got a small update

My mom called me today and said i got to put her pc back to normal. She said the screen was failing. I went over looked at it, the graphics where getting pixelated and tearing.

The 7900gt co superclock (my old card) was getting pretty warm on the memory chips. Ive never had a problem with it in my case, but I only got 7 80mm fans, and then a 120mm zalman copper cpu cooler, so Ive had good airflow. Where as her case has the cpu fan, the fan in the psu, and the added vent fan I put in.

I remember the cooling being a problem with the cards (7900gt co sc) becuase the heatsink was just for the cpu on the card and not the memory. I remember getting a email alert from evga to exchange my card for the newer cards with the better heatsink (the 7900gt ko superclocks) but never did because I had no problem with it, and planned on getting a after market artic cooler (but never did)

So I re thermalpasted the heatsink, and tried running a lower clock frequancy on the memory of the card (brought it down 300mhz) it seemed to work a bit better, the memory chips didnt get as hot, but still had some messed up pixels.

So we went for a trip to best buy.

And this is what we got for her computer.

xfx 9600gt 512mb ram.

Then her new card next to my old 7900gt

It installed in the case

And my mom playing her pogo games and a lil shot of her computer room.. Notice the little Apple on the left...

[Applejack]

what size power supply is she using? i had my 8800 on a little 350 watt lasted about 25 minutes was eating on the couch and heard pop "fuuuck" lol, it was kind of funny, i had a new power supply sittin on the floor anyways

[audiofanaticz]

its a stock 400 watt.

[Applejack]

well be careful with that card in there

[Slinky]

well be careful with that card in there

nah, you should be fine with that psu and that setup

[audiofanaticz]

Yea, my moms rig with the 9600 is working fine, she leaves her computer on almost 24/7 and she said no problems what so ever, just asked her today when I was at her house.

So I think I mentioned above that I was looking for a better cpu to try and limit any bottlenecking caused by my new video card in my rig.

I didnt want to spend over $150 for a used cpu (and it be hard finding a new socket 939 without a outragious price)

So I made a post on Overclock.net (great site, great people. Its like a smd version for computers ).

Well anyways I got this private message from a guy saying he just built a new rig, and he was parting out his old one, but didnt even try selling parts or taking it apart yet.

He said he had a amd socket 939 4400+ dual core 2.2ghz with a toledo core, $100 shipped.

Ive been searching ebay, and had my eye on this, it was cheap at first but got outragiously priced quick. http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-Athlon-64-X2-3800-...id=p3286.c0.m14

So the processor I bought from this guy is technically cheaper, I feel I got a good deal on it.

It came today in the mail. and well pictures

The new cpu on the left, the old on the right.

All artic silvered up

Just a tool I got from my "sponser" It comes in handy a lot. This is what it says on it. "Call Us Or Screw It Up Yourself, RPM SPEED AND CUSTOM AUTO" but it worked good for the screws inside my case, also works good for tuning amps and such because its small.

All put together, rerouted my wires a little bit too. Nothing major. Its hard to hide wires in a completly clear case.

So now for the good stuff.

Ive benchmarked my pc. This first screen shot is with my old pc parts.

3d mark 06 was used for both tests.

specs

amd 3700+ sandy single core 2.2ghz stock, running at 2.92ghz, so theres just a little overclock on it.

7997 3dmarks 1680 by 1050 res.

And now with my new cpu.

amd 4400+ dual core 2.2ghz stock, running at 2.2.

Again same everything else. 1680 by 1050 res.

8463 3d marks

So..... Yea... the dual core is faster then the old single core that was overclocked to 2.92ghz, while my dual core is at 2.2ghz.

Now its time to overclock then cpu then benchmark again.

Im so happy right now!!

[audiofanaticz]

Did a little overclocking. I got my new amd 4400+ 2.2ghz now running at 2.66mhz. So only a slight overclock on it. Im wanting to get it up to at least a 2.8 or 2.9, tho I may have to volt mod my motherboard, unless flashing my bios again would unlock higher processor voltage. But I maybe already at the newest bios.

so heres my new numbers on 3dmark06.

9996

so a little over a 400mhz overclock brought me up almost 1500 points

I also benchmark higher then Erics newly upgraded pc "with his ati card that is "better" then my nvidia" Pwned ?!?

nvida > ati

[EricM9104]

You also paid more for your card, did you not?

I'm gonna have to try OCing my CPU

Than retry my vid card... Maybe my Zalman cooler will work on it

[audiofanaticz]

yea i payed a little more then you but I bought a card from a real comapny and not some offbrand like pny

[AI James]

first comp looks nice, those LED's would bug the living shit out of me though