Upgrade

[Nightfire]

Well I decided to wait on the new motherboard and processor, and just decided to upgrade my current PC.

It's now at:

Simple:

Oerating System - Windows XP Media Center Edition
Processor - AMD Athlon 3.2GHz
RAM - 2000 MB = 2 GB
Video Card - ATI Radeon X850 Pro AGP (256MB)
Hard Drive - 240GB



Advanced:

Computer:
Computer Type - ACPI Uniprocessor PC
Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
User Name - Nightfire

Motherboard:
CPU Type - AMD Athlon XP, 2200MHz (11x200) 3200+
Motherboard Name - Chaintech 7NJL6 (5PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset - nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400R
BIOS Type - Award (08/04/04)
Communication Port - Communication Port (COM1)
Communication Port - Communication Port (COM2)
Communication Port - ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter - RADEON X850 Series - Secondary (256MB)
Video Adapter - RADEON X850 Series (256 MB)
3D Accelerator - ATI Radeon X850 Pro AGP (R481)
Monitor - Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (MRJ5450014116)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter - C-Media CMI9739A/9761 @nVIDIA MCP2-5 � Audio Codec Interface
Audio Adapter - nVIDIA MCP2-S Audio Processing Unit (Dolby Digital)

Storage:
IDE Controller - NVIDIA MCP2S Parallel ATA Controller (v2.5)
IDE Controller - NVIDIA MCP2S Parallel ATA Compatible Controller (v2.5)
Floppy Drive - Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive - WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0 (232 GB,IDE)
Optical Drive - PLEXTOR DVDR PX-740A (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:4x, DVD +RW:16x/8x, �
SMART Hard Disks Status- OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS)

Input:
Keyboard - Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse - PS/2 Compatible Mouse

Peripherals:

USB1 Controller - nVIDIA MCP2-S � OHCI USB Controller
USB1 Controller - nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB Controller
USB2 Controller - nVIDIA MCP2-S � EHCI USB 2.0 Controller

While I am now trying both gigs of ram with duel channel I don't see any difference. And it is activiated so it's really odd lol should see a difference since I was only using a 512(333MHz) stick and now two 1000(400MHz).

Have any of you messed with Windows XP Media center? If so do you know if there's a way to make it use S-Video?

Also how can you tell what Tempature your Processors at?

Help Appreciated.

[unit_number_43]

lol, you have no idea what most of that means do you?

I've got windows MCE on my laptop. It's pretty similar to windows xp pro, just a slightly different skin, and of course the media center part which i hardly ever find a use for.

And you'll be able to check your cpu temp with software that will be provided with the motherboard. nforce chipsets have a nice temp and fan speed monitoring system.

[SgtSwabs]

Hers my tip for all people planning to upgrade their system; WAIT and save money because the latest nVidia GPU will be released in a few months and it's going to blow every other card out of the water.

[Samuel]

You got some facts wrong man.

AMD Athlon 3.2GHz..... No? That don't even make a processor that fast.

2000mb = 2 gb's ?! 2000mb= 1 gig and shy short of 2 gigs

You have the same processor as me and its runs at 2.2ghz, not 3.2 =)



To use s-video out, you need to mess with the video driver's ATI gave you.

Damn you should have got an Nvidia, they kill ATI.

[carrotderek]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bigfatguy6969 &#064; Apr 7 2006, 11&#58;03 AM) [snapback]164348[/snapback]</div>

You got some facts wrong man.

AMD Athlon 3.2GHz..... No? That don&#39;t even make a processor that fast.

2000mb = 2 gb&#39;s ?&#33; 2000mb= 1 gig and shy short of 2 gigs
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Pretty sure they have 3.2ghz processors. try looking it up Uncy Sam&#33;

1 Megabyte = 10^6 = 1,000,000 bytes
1 Gigabyte = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes.

1:1000 ratio, every gig is 1000 megs. There&#39;s no 2 in any of it XD

[Samuel]

A gig is 1024 mb.

So 2 gigs = 2048mb.

No amd hasn&#39;t made a Home use processor with 3.2, ecspecially in the ATHLON line.

[carrotderek]

Ooh right&#33; I was thinking notebooks.

So then its not a "shy short of 2 gigs" then :P

Keep in mind that in my context I am using Decimal format, which is base 10, you are referring to Binary notation which has Base 2.

I suppose we were both right :P Since it is 1024 Mebibytes if you are referring to Gibibytes, of which is denoted as GiB, instead of GB. They are practically synonyms

[Dale]

Don&#39;t alot of people combine FSB and Core clock speed to get the rating.

[unit_number_43]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dale &#064; Apr 7 2006, 03&#58;29 PM) [snapback]164373[/snapback]</div>

Don&#39;t alot of people combine FSB and Core clock speed to get the rating.
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what rating?

[Dale]

When they say it&#39;s a 3.2ghz amd athlon. Is that Core clock speed, and FSB speed combined?