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Tsiolkovsky died, time for some upgrades
Posted by JLP on July 25th, 2006
When my sister tried to turn on her computer, named Tsiolkovsky, the day before yesterday, it beeped like crazy, indicating that there is something wrong with the graphics card. Later it turned out that the graphics card was perfectly OK. It was the motherboard, the Abit KT7A. After about five and a half years of service some of the capacitors on it blew up and started leaking. We could try to find out some used replacement motherboard, but we decided that this would be just the right excuse to buy some new components to upgrade my computer called Enterprise and move the existing components from Enterprise to Tsiokovsky. Since the old SDR memory modules would only collect dust, I donated them to my cousin Matej. After the upgrade from 256 MiB of memory to 768 his SUSE Linux feels a lot faster.
Now I have to decide which processor to buy. Intel Core 2 Duo just came out and it looks like they have finally managed to create an architecture that outperforms AMD Athlon 64 (quite a bit actually) and doesn’t suck as much electrical power as the Pentium 4 does. AMD is also reacting to all this by reducing prices of their processors. I only have to wait until Intel Core 2 Duo comes to Slovenia and prices for AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core CPUs drop. Maybe it will be worth to buy Intel again. My last CPU from them was the 450 MHz Pentium II.
July 25th, 2006 at 21:36:14
Again, i’d like to thank you for the RAM you donated to me. Programs load faster, if i run a lot of programs at the same time it dosen’t lag anymore and so on. But it really is sad to hear Tsiolkovsky past away. We had a lot of fun playing SuperTux and surfing the net on it. I hope you will find good processor for a low price and i really hope you won’t have to change the graphics card.
Again,
Hvala Jure!
July 26th, 2006 at 13:51:46
Ravno kupujem računalnik in pregledujem trgovine, tako da ti lahko prišepnem:
Core 2 Duo sem videl v Jae, Mlacomu, nakupi.net (nepravilno označen kot Core Duo).
Nove AMD cene (vsaj za AM2 podnožje) so že v veljavi pri AGT, Mlacomu, Mimovrste, nakupi.net, Jae. V ponedeljek, na dan objave, so imeli nove cene pri nakupi.net, v torek pri Mimovrste, AGT in Mlacomu, v sredo pa pri Jae.
Poleg omenjenih sem gledal še Enaa, Funtech, E-misija in Anni, kjer pa očitno čakajo, da gremo kupit h konkurenci.
July 27th, 2006 at 00:47:40
[SLO] Hvala Brane za seznam trgovin. Jih bom še mal preveru pa cene pa tak pol se pa odločmo, kaj bo. Zaenkrat zgleda da bom mogu kr Athlona 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+ vzet. Plate za Core 2 Duo so kr dost draži, pa tud s podporo za mojo AGP grafično kartico bo problem zgleda, pa še proc (E6300) je sam po seb že kr nekej draži. Zgleda da na žalost ne bo dovolj denarja za Intela.
[ENG] If you don’t understand Slovenian: Brane provided a list of Slovenian shops where prices were already reduced for Athlon 64 X2 and a list of stores where they have Core 2 Duo. I thanked him for the lists and replied that currently it all looks like that I will have to go with Athlon 64 X2, because of my legacy AGP graphics card, a bit high prices for Intel option and my limited budget.
July 27th, 2006 at 14:47:46
[...] This is the question I’ve been pondering for the last couple of hours after my sister’s computer broke down and we decided to buy some upgrades. I’ve concentrated on the comparison of AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+ and Intel Core 2 Duo E6300. In almost every test I’ve seen Intel is faster. In some tests the gap between them is quite wide. So, if I would be buying a new computer instead of upgrading and if the budget was not so limited, Intel Core 2 Duo would be a clear choice. But unfortunately, I still have some components, like the AGP graphics card, which wouldn’t fit into motherboards for the Core 2 Duo processor. While the new motherboards for AMD with AM2 socket also don’t seem to support AGP, Athlon 64 X2 is also available for Socket 939 and a lot of the motherboards with S939 do support AGP graphic cards and DDR1 memory. In addition to my compatibility requirements the Core 2 Duo E6300 is quite a bit more expensive then Athlon 64 X2 4200+ here in Slovenia and there are also problems with availability of Core 2 Duo CPUs. Motherboards for Intel are also more expensive. So in my case I had to choose AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+. I’ve already ordered it from mimovrste.com and it will cost me 183 €. [...]