SSD & Socket A

Cookeh · 29 Apr 2011 at 18:49

Hey,

Can you combine the two?

Parents' PC really needs a speed up and they don't want to spend much money - was thinking 40GB Agility Series SSD.

Regards

Gizmowithatt · 29 Apr 2011 at 18:59

I tried with a socket 939 processor

I tried with a socket 939 processor, but with no joy it was to do with the chipset Nvidia kept asking of a driver when trying to install windows, I gave up in the end :mad:

Oh it was a first generation Vertex I was going to use.

Cookeh · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:02

Ah, that's that idea out the window.

Cheers

Snykch · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:49

Isn't there a driver you can manually provide when installing windows?

Phil2008 · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:53

I had a socket A athlon amd 800mhz cpu,, was a great chip

Gizmowithatt · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:14

Snykch said:
Isn't there a driver you can manually provide when installing windows?

I tried all Nvida drivers including the RAID ones, but the drive couldn’t be recognised, but some somewhere will probably prove me wrong :confused:

marcus_667 · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:18

surely troll mm for a second hand cheap core 2 duo setup

spleenharvester · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:43

It'd probably depend on your board mate.

I'm fairly sure someone mentioned adding an SSD to a socket 754 rig and saying it was a rather welcome speed boost.

Though personally I have a 1900+/1GB/WD800JS setup downstairs, and it's borderline unusable

I'd just save for some second hand stuff off MM, C2D E1x00/E2xx0, low end 775 board, and a gig or two DDR2 should set you back 40~70 at most.

John24 · 1 May 2011 at 17:34

I used to use an ssd on a Socket A setup. Would tide you over untill you can afford an upgrade, the ssd will help a lot but is no substitute for a proper upgrade, even cheap second hand stuff would be a big improvement.