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Well, if you're not in that much of a hurry to get the parts for a new one, then a RAM upgrade for your present system wouldn't be a bad idea--I think you'll see a vast improvement--64 mb ought to do it; an additional 32 or 64 would be night and day.
You may have already mentioned this in an earlier post, but how many RAM slots do you have on your mobo?
Reading "project" makes me wonder how many have built and what are their problems if any as they went along. Also how has some of the components we have talked about worked out in actual usage.
I am not going to do it now. But when the new one is finished it would help to get rid of a bunch of unnecessary stuff on here and add the RAM. Then just use it to surf and for email, IM ....that kind of stuff. (about all it's capable of)
No slots left. They are all 6 full. But take two pairs of the 8 out, and put back in two of 32.... or even just take out one pair of 8 and add one 32 with the 16 that remains would be 48 ? Twice as much as I have now.
Just an idea, now that I know what kind I need and how to do it.
This project is first. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Too close now to fritter away what I have stashed, on RAM .....or shoes. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Hmmm...well, when you get the new one built, you just run right out there and buy a new pair of "computer beige" shoes to match your new system--if anything, it'll make you feel better for the money you spent on it. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
I already got that color, bistro. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
I am not having withdrawal symptoms.....yet.
You're the one on medication !
Speaking of which, did you remember to take it today ? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Queen_of_Hearts
If you have a office depot near you, wander on in and take a look. They have EDO and SDRAM in the store here. They did not have the EDO 128 chips that someone is got to be making new and the prices on this type has gone down also. Not as big a drop on edo as has taken place on sdram. But encouraging none the less.
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I do have an Office Depot and will check into that. AFTER this project. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
I am reading about the installation...... Will the processor we choose come with the heatsink already attached to the processor ? Is that what the thermal paste on
our list is for ?
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I see.... they want it on there even if it is clipped on ....to fill the gaps.
I'm talking to myself.....sorry.
[This message has been edited by Queen_of_Hearts (edited 12-13-2000).]
Was there not a statement about using the paste the second time not the first??
Any way that is how I interpeted it. So correction may be neccessary on my part https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Stand corrected.
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QoH
Leave money in safe place [not on you] and walk in eyeball the darn things oggle price tags, sigh then leave. {I know rough to do} In that way you will have a idea of what is what.
Just a Idea on my part as I found empty pockets prevent hole burning. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Ok, Train good idea. I'll hide it in a shoe, then go look.
I'm still reading. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
About that thermal paste--it's not like it's "taboo" to put it on for the first go, but sometimes it's better to wait a while; to let the new processor "burn in". After a couple of weeks of running it, put the stuff on. Maybe stating the obvious here, but this applies to Socket 370 CPU's, not Slot I type.
The reason is obvious when you look at pics of the two; the Slot 1 out of the box has a "built-in" heat sink and fan on the casing, Socket 370 is just the chip. Depending on what you guys decide for a CPU, I'd get a bigger, better heatsink/fan combo for that chip than those cheapy kind you see hanging on those accessory racks at the shop.
bistro,
This is what I have on my list.
Motherboard Abit BX 133-RAID ( socket370-type)
Intel Pentium III 800mhz CPU
Is this processor one that will not have the heatsink attached ?
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Configuring the Motherboard https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ . Please tell me it'll just be like the modem with tiny little black switches and all I'll have to do is just put it on the right numbers. Sounds like a much bigger ordeal.
This may make more sense when I see the actual thing in person.
[This message has been edited by Queen_of_Hearts (edited 12-13-2000).]
Yes Ma'am. That PIII 800 comes in either the 370 or Slot 1. You want the 370 chip for that mobo. Don't get a "standard" heat sink/fan cooler for that. Recommend one of the Global Win coolers like the FNP08Hor similar. It'll come with a small tube of thermal paste in the box.
Oueen of Hearts - Here's something I ran across. Click here
When you order it, do you tell them I dont wan't it with the heatsink/fan, and then get the one you suggested or let it come like it is then take it off and use FNP08H.