£200 limit upgrade

[daniSAUR]

If you're not gaming why didn't you just get a motherboard with on board graphics? Ah well, bought it now, enjoy.

 

[ionicle]

becuase i do watch HD films, and i have a monitor and telly, so i need it to have dual outputs...and that mobo + graphics is cheaper than a mobo with two graphics outputs for the socket i want

 

[ionicle]

arrived

i dont have time to put it together tonight unfortunatly, but as soon as i do...

i shal post in here

looks brilliant though, first new parts in like 5 years

 

[8bitbreed]

Sweet.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Nice !!!

 

[SieB]

Nice little upgrade there

Nice to see some old ATI branding as well

 

[ionicle]

Aye it should be, and i stayed amd through it too

 

[ionicle]

all built, pics coming soon

 

[Ghosthud1]

you really are Amd till you die lol.

 

[ionicle]

you really are Amd till you die lol.

when i die, i want the pc that plays the music at my funeral to be amd powered

anyway, on with pics!

right, lets whip it open

old system, so dusty....so, whats going in?

old graphics card out:

new mobo ports, a lot of oldie worldie ports on there ...not seen a paralell in years!

unplugged everything:

its stuck, any advice?

bare cpu socket

old out

old ports!

clean...well, metaphorically

in with the new!

front usb, and sata etc plugged in

hahaha, yeah right...

stick one

stick two

i was feeling 'oh crap' when i saw all this mounting crap, but fortunatly thats all for intel, amd is just two screws, nice, simple, easy

boohoo for you intel boys

i mean, look at it lol

two screws, and in!

graphics!

and in

 

[8bitbreed]

Come on then lets see that wprime 32 bench mark.

 

[ionicle]

windows is still installing!

getting there!

 

[Ghosthud1]

Artic silver 5 + amd chips.........mayhem

I think my phenom 970 got stuck whilst removing it so i had to get some heatsink cleaner on some paper and i slid it underneath the chip.

looking good though

 

[ionicle]

to get that chip off...and i did eventually, from 5 years old sensodyne gentle whitning

and bakeing at 100C for a few days every summer

it took 2 knives, a pair of scissors, and a credit card to re-streighten the bent pins after...

 

[ionicle]

right

old pc:

new pc:

and people say bulldozer is rubbish

is it me, or did that time for 32m very neerly halve?