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Your first time ?

art1cfox

art1cfox

art1cfox

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When was the first time you plucked up the courage to replace your first cpu ?.
My first time was replacing a cyrix MII 300 for a AMD K2-450.
After nervously removing/installing the heatsink and cpu i came to the jumper settings.
Ok set multiplier to 4.5 (highest it would go was 5)no problem.Next set fsb to 100 :eek: my fsb would only go to 75mhz :( (hadn't checked this in my total noobness).
Totally gutted and in a strop i left it,not bothering to put the old chip back in and went around me mates.
To cut along story short he told me he had heard that the K2-450 would set
the mutiplier to 6 if i put the jumper on 2 therefore giving me 6* 75= 450 :rolleyes: yeah right.
Anyway back home i went to try it with not much hope.
After setting jumpers and putting all back together,with fingers crossed i nervously switched on WHOOPEEEEE bios came up showing all was fine it worked :)
 
my first cpu change was a 486 to a Pentium 100mhz, then after that it was when i first fitted a duron 900mhz into a motherboard id got 2nd hand off a mate lol

the p1 wouldnt boot up to begin with, till i realised id put the power cables in wrong (good old AT PSUs lol, ill always remember that its black to black after that)
 
Still remember swapping out my Pentium2 350, mobo & SIS 6326 for Athlon 800 + Gigabyte 7ZX + TNT2 M64 32Mb. Actually had another mobo before the gigabyte but it was screwed on my first attempt to fit it.
 
was my mates pc he had a 75ghz pentium 1. changed it for a 133 :) got stuck with jumpers settings so had tyo call help line and they actually helped lol. :D he was happy so was i he gave me a fiver lol
 
i changed my dx66 to a 586 chip at 133mhz - its was about the same speed as the new P75's but i didn't have to change the motherboard - 8mb of ram as well - its was a monster - i wrote my PhD thesis on that pc :p
 
my first 'puter had a 486 dx2 50 mhz in it. i changed to a pentium 90 mhz, then pentium 133 mhz until i joined the light side of the force. i bought a k6 300 mhz, then k6-2 350 mhz, then athlon xp 1700+, then xp 1800+, and then a xp 2500+ which i'm using until today ;)

MfG
 
Bought new PCs until I hit the P3 stage, then swapped my P3-500 for a P3-800, was easy as easy, didn't even have to change anything in the BIOS, I didn't think twice about it...

only upgrades I did before getting to the P3 were RAM and HDD and 3D Accelerator.

The newer CPUs especially the conroes are far more daunting for me to play with for some reason...
 
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My first CPU change was from a Tbird 1000 @ 1333 MHz to an XP1600+ AGOIA Y that i got to 1890MHz but 1750 stable.
 
tomanders91 said:
erm why do u need to get courage to replace a CPU?
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Well when you consider that your holding something so small ( well they are now lol ) thats worth so much money and could fairly easily be damaged. Plus you have to get the right one and do all the research. Id say its daunting - even to me now and ive replaced my fair share of CPU's now.

My first upgrade was a 166 Pentium to a 266 ? i think :) lol

Rgds,
Nomisf
 
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