Time to upgrade my Northwood P4

Duke · 18 Feb 2012 at 22:13

The P4 HT's were great, still see a lot of them about. What HD do you have? It might make the system quite sluggish with the new chip in there

Tuppy_Glossop · 19 Feb 2012 at 00:20

Duke said:
The P4 HT's were great, still see a lot of them about. What HD do you have? It might make the system quite sluggish with the new chip in there

The HD is as old as the P4 but I am going SSD SATA III. It's a full system upgrade:

Thermaltake Xaser II 5000 -> Xigmatek Utgard (if they can find one...) & extra intake fan
Thermaltake 360W PSU -> Corsair TX650 v2
Asus P4V88+ -> GA ZXAP-D3
P4 3.06 HT -> i5 2500k
1GB unknown -> 8 GB Vengeance LP 1.35v
Seagate (not WD as prev thought) 80GB IDE -> OCZ Vertex 60GB SATA III & Seagate 2TB 64MB SATA III
GeForce FX5500 (270MHz & 256MB mem) -> HD3000 iGPU
Stock cooler -> Xigmatek Aegir

Subliminal Aura · 19 Feb 2012 at 00:26

Tuppy_Glossop said:
The HD is as old as the P4 but I am going SSD SATA III. It's a full system upgrade:

Thermaltake Xaser II 5000 -> Xigmatek Utgard (if they can find one...) & extra intake fan
Thermaltake 360W PSU -> Corsair TX650 v2
Asus P4V88+ -> GA ZXAP-D3
P4 3.06 HT -> i5 2500k
1GB unknown -> 8 GB Vengeance LP 1.35v
Seagate (not WD as prev thought) 80GB IDE -> OCZ Vertex 60GB SATA III & Seagate 2TB 64MB SATA III
GeForce FX5500 (270MHz & 256MB mem) -> HD3000 iGPU
Stock cooler -> Xigmatek Aegir

Looks like you've done your homework already

Tuppy_Glossop · 19 Feb 2012 at 00:35

Subliminal Aura said:
Looks like you've done your homework already

That's how I got here ! I wasn't going to get a cooler until my research brought me here and I was seduced by the 5GHz club thread. Nutters putting silly voltages through screaming slices of silicon. What's not to like ? :cool:

Subliminal Aura · 19 Feb 2012 at 00:41

I'm beginning to think Xigmatek make the best coolers - forget the noctua hype. (Still have to test the budget Gaia but even unboxing it I was impressed at the 17quid price point)

http://www.xigmatek.com/product_list.php?categoryid=1&subcategoryid=1

The SD1284 Looks badass ! (that's an awful lot of heatpipe coverage

)

EDIT: DAYYYYIIIIMMMmmmm The more I look at that, the more I want

Tuppy_Glossop · 19 Feb 2012 at 01:01

I dismissed Noctua and Silver Arrow as being too ostentatious. It doesn't matter how big the pencil is, it's how you write your name.

Subliminal Aura · 19 Feb 2012 at 01:06

Tuppy_Glossop said:
I dismissed Noctua and Silver Arrow as being too ostentatious. It doesn't matter how big the pencil is, it's how you write your name.

LOL - We like you already although quite a few will disagree - They'll be here shortly - I'm off to bed (will check the damage in the morning)

Welcome to the mad house

Tuppy_Glossop · 19 Feb 2012 at 01:10

Subliminal Aura said:
Welcome to the mad house

Thanks.

pc_monkey · 19 Feb 2012 at 03:23

Do not dismiss the noctua and silver arrow. They are the big daddies of air cooling. Of course you can use smaller coolers, but you will find that you will soon need a bigger cooler once you push your cpu past 4.6ghz/1.38v.

Buy cheap, buy twice = false economy.

Edit:
Also dont skimp on mobo and psu.

Harlequin · 19 Feb 2012 at 08:56

i would look at teh crucial M4 over the ocz pos drives - only ever had problems with vertex 3

edgedemon · 19 Feb 2012 at 09:13

Harlequin said:
i would look at teh crucial M4 over the ocz pos drives - only ever had problems with vertex 3

I have both, 2 x M4's in RAID 0 and OCZ Agility 3, both are quick, very quick..

Tuppy_Glossop said:
I dismissed Noctua and Silver Arrow as being too ostentatious. It doesn't matter how big the pencil is, it's how you write your name.

You won't be writing your name in anything but baby scribble unless you get a decent cooler.
If you want your name in massive 5Ghz flashing letters, then you NEED good cooling. I hate large coolers, they are ugly, but it is a bit like the old medicine saying - the worse it tastes and all that...
I have a Noctua DH14, hate it, my rig looks lovely until I put that in, but I cant argue with the temps..

edgedemon · 19 Feb 2012 at 09:15

Tuppy_Glossop said:
Nutters putting silly voltages through screaming slices of silicon. What's not to like ?

Quote of the week for me

You are going to fit in here so well....

Troezar · 19 Feb 2012 at 09:16

I can vouch for the M4's. I have two, zero problems and very quick. Also been impressed with closed loop water cooling. Not as good as custom but still cool quiet and a lot more space in my case.

Harlequin · 19 Feb 2012 at 10:40

i have also used both the M4 and vertex 3 - the ocz was returned twice and finally gave up - just simply failed to work properly on a Z68 board(ended up with bsods) - latest firmware and bios , and ofc bios set up properly.

changed to an M4 and voila - fast as **** and stable

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Indy500 · 19 Feb 2012 at 11:18

Hey, don't fry the thing

I'll take it off your hands - still useful for basic tasks like browsing and word processing

Tuppy_Glossop · 19 Feb 2012 at 11:26

sr4470 said:
Hey, don't fry the thing I'll take it off your hands - still useful for basic tasks like browsing and word processing

Which is pretty much all it is good for these days. It took several hours to build the OpenCV (computer vision) libraries.

Indy500 · 19 Feb 2012 at 11:28

Tuppy_Glossop said:
Which is pretty much all it is good for these days. It took several hours to build the OpenCV (computer vision) libraries.

Not surprised. Most people don't do that on their home computer though

I don't think this Dimension has seen anything more demanding than "The Sims".

Tuppy_Glossop · 19 Feb 2012 at 11:32

sr4470 said:
Not surprised. Most people don't do that on their home computer though I don't think this Dimension has seen anything more demanding than "The Sims".

Self-employed and working from home. Two PCs would be an expensive luxury. I have a console for games (hence no discrete GPU).

Indy500 · 19 Feb 2012 at 11:43

Tuppy_Glossop said:
Self-employed and working from home. Two PCs would be an expensive luxury.

Of course, I know that all too well. You may as well hold onto this one as a backup machine, unless it makes enough money to contribute to the core i5 system.

Tuppy_Glossop said:
I have a console for games (hence no discrete GPU).

Likewise on the integrated GPU, until it kept giving me rendering errors (ATI can't be bothered to solve a HD series compatibility problem in their driver). It would have struggled with Fallout New Vegas anyway though...