The ARRL is the best source of information on what it takes to get into Ham Radio in the USA, other countries have similar organizations. Since the FCC removed the Morse Code requirement a few years ago the test is mainly electronics, rules, and general practices.
Something like this is what I...
Nice one! LOL
I stop by Anandtech to check out the articles and read a few forum posts but I've been spending most of my time in astronomy and now getting back into Ham Radio. Combining those two and PC knowledge should lead to some interesting projects.
I gave up being a CPU Enthusiast a long time ago. Now a PC is just a tool to be used to accomplish more imaginative goals.
My next goal is a sub-orbital atmospheric monitoring package (helium balloon with a light-weight computer controlled instrument package).
Perdomot,
I do some astrophotography and going from a 965 to a 1090 has increased the speed of stacking my photos in Deep Sky Stacker, but that's an example of an application that not too many people use. Deep Sky Stacker will push all 6 cores to 100%.
Where going from a 965 to a 1090 also...
Not much of an upgrade, by itself, but I'm hoping it will help with DeepSkyStacker.
The program runs pretty much on a single thread when scanning an image file for stars, then would max out all 4 cores of my 965 while stacking the image files. I've thrown 21 files at it and it took an hour and...
My daughters system has an AM2+ motherboard with 4GB of DDR2 memory. With the latest BIOS update it will handle all of the currently available AMD processors that are rated at 125W or lower, including the X6 1090T. So if you keep the old memory, you should be able to find a motherboard that...
Each OS is on its own drive.
Sometimes if you're lucky and get a motherboard with the same chipset manufacturer, the new and old chipsets are simular enough where XP will boot on the new motherboard.
I have WinXP and Win7 Ult setup as a dual boot. No need to go into the BIOS to switch OS's. Instal XP first the Win7, you'll get a menu to select earlier version on Win or Win7. The drive letter designations are dependant on the OS but both OS's see all drives and partitions. WinXP is...
My mom's a grandma and I set her up with:
Athlon II 620
4GB RAM
4670 ATI Video
Gigabyte 770 motherboard
Win XP
It's a nice jump in speed from a:
2200 Athlon XP
2GB RAM
7500 ATI Video
Win 2K
Is it over-kill for what she uses it for? Sure it is, but I would rather have her system...
I've dropped a 5750 into an X2-4800 system.
It scores better in the graphics benchmarks than a 4670 in an X4-620 but not as good as a 5750 in an X4-620 (even when down clocked to 2.4GHz).
This might give you an idea of the performance range best suited for your system.
I would suggest getting an antenna that has a built in amplifier. Most of the PC tuner cards on the market have little or no AGC (Automatic Gain Control) so the channels with strong OTA signals are the only ones that won't break up.
My setup is a little off from the standard setup. I'm...
Waffleironhead has probably pointed out your problem.
I put a 5750 into a NForce4 SLI board and it didn't work in the top PCIE slot. I put the 5750 in the bottom PCIE slot and the card worked at 1X. In order to get the PCIE slot to run at a higher rate I had to enable SLI in the BIOS and...
It's a standard dipole antenna. I've used the loops for mounting the antenna, usually arranged so that the antenna forms a T. Dipoles are dirrectional but this can be offset a little by letting the upper part of the T sag down to a 45 degree angle.
I put a couple 3850's into a couple XP systems (2500 Barton and 2700 XP) last year (Christmas 2008) for a couple of nephews. I ran some benchmarks on them, if you do a search you should find the posts.
I've dropped both a 4890 and a 5750 into a 4800 X2 (939) system and both cards significantly increased the game playability of the system (original video card was based on an X1900), but both cards would have performed better in a more current system. The 4890 is the fastest of the two. For...
Everybody keeps saying how the OP was CPU bound, that's not true. He was platform bound.
I put a 5750 in my 4800 X2 (939) rig and a 5750 in an AM3 Athlon II 620 rig. The 620 rig still blew the 4800 rig away when I clocked them both at 2.4GHz (using single threaded benchmarks).
My wife bought it.
Our daughter wanted the money to go towards a new car because her computer was fast enough.
Our niece didn't notice the upgrade because she's playing games on an old CRT at 1024x768.
The only person that benefited by the upgrade, that noticed the improvement from the...
After putting my 9NPA into SLI mode, so that the secondary slot is working in 8X instead of 1X, the system returned benchmark scores of:
3DMark2001SE - 30612
3DMark2003 - 37598
3DMark2005 - 13110
3DMark2006 - 9254
A modest increase that may never get utilized, but better to be prepared.
I upgraded my daughter last month from a 4870 to a 5850. I ran some benchmark tests and there was a measurable increase in perfomance but it wasn't worth the $300.
The main reasons that I did the upgrade was to give my niece the 4870 with her CPU upgrade and to save my wife and I a little...
Thanks for the idea Lonyo, I put the motherboard in SLI mode and it brought the speed of the secondary PCI-E up to 8X (the 5750 still won't work in the primary). The benchmark scores look like they'll come up a bit but not as high as the 620/5750 system that I put together.
It's just...
After I posted this thread I took a look at Happy Medium's thread.
I checked the Catalyst Control Center and the card is running at X1. I can try reseating it in the primary PCI-E slot a couple more times but I think the card is where it's going to stay.
Turned my 4800 X2 (939) over to my wife. It's configuration is:
4800 X2 (939)
Epox 9NPA+SLI
4GB Mushkin 3200@2700
X1900 AIW
The benchmarks I ran scored:
3DMark2001SE - 25458
3DMark2003 - 14525
3DMark2005 - 9070
3DMark2006 - 4508
I decided to upgrade the X1900 because it wasn't...
No, just information. In case somebody does a search.
I'll have the results from upgrading a 4800 X2 (939) from an X1900 to a 5750 tonight. I had a problem with that upgrade, dropping the 5750 into the primary PCI-E slot (on a 9npa+sli) the system wouldn't post but it did when I dropped it...
Last October I put a system together for my mom:
Gigabyte 770 DDR3
4GB DDR3 1600 @ 1333
Saphire 4670
It scored:
3DMark2000 - 27212
3DMark2001 - 29371
3DMark2003 - 23757
3DMark2005 - 14490
3DMark2006 - 7698
Well my daughter's system died so I upgraded her system to:
Gigabyte 770...
When I had high speed internet enabled on my Verizon phone, the only way to connect was through the COM port on the phone. The Verizon sales person told me that the only difference between using my phone compared to a stand alone unit was that I paid for the additional line charge for the stand...
I'm just reading the requirements off the box the game came in.
We all know that there are games that will play like crap on the minimum system suggested by the manufacturer.
If you use UT as a reference then the requirements for UT3 are either a single 2GHz CPU or a 2.4GHz dual core.
I'm...
Up until a month or so ago I had a 4800X2 with an X1900.
I tried playing Need for Speed - Shift on it and it was jerky.
Once I replaced the X1900 with a 4890 the game smoothed out.
I probably could have dropped a 4670 into it and seen the same improvement but I was working towards a new build...
Cleaning with water isn't a problem as long as the fans are removed first and all the water is removed. Some if not most PCBs are soldered with water soluable flux and have already been exposed to water.
I'm not a clean freak so I just use compressed air from a cheap 5 gallon compressor...
I know the 3DMark scores aren't the best metric but since they are the only benchmarks that I have historical data on that's what I use for comparison. I figure the 53% improvement is worse case for single threaded games.
I had to stop by my sisters yesterday because installing the 9.12 ATI...
I did the switch. But I didn't do it clean, she knows that her system has been messed with, just not how. I don't think that she knows that see's been upgraded, I think that she thinks that one of her freinds is messing with her.
Now I'm using her parts to help put together her brothers...
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She has one of the Gigabyte GA-MA78 DDR2 motherboards (the note with the board PN is at home but it supports up to a 125W CPU). I picked up 4GB of 1066 DDR2 GSkill to replace the 4GB of DDR2 800. It's been a year since I've looked inside the case but I doubt it has that big of...
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I didn't mention the video card because that's getting upgraded also, from a 3850 to a 4870. I know that upgrade will improve her gaming experience. I was just wondering if the new CPU, by itself, would improve her gaming experience.
I know the quad core will help with the other...
I'm going to sneek an upgrade on my neices system. She currently has a 5600 (2.9GHz) and I'm going to slip in a 925 (2.8GHz). My neice is the computer gamer in my sisters house.
Besides the benifits of going from dual core to quad core, is the L3 of the 925 going to improve her gaming...
Yes they both need to have a power connector in them. If your power supply has one connector you can use the one that you had the case fans connected to for the second connector.
I was looking at the first picture that the OP showed. You can see the shiney male pins of his case fan connector which is connected to one of the PCIE adapter molex connectors. I didn't follow what other things were connected to the PCIE adapter.
I can't look at any of the photos now because...
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