Anyone have any thoughts on the above upgrade. The reason for upgrading now is that in another few weeks or so I will not be able to upgrade.
The PC runs genuine Win 7 Pro and Linux
The mother board is a Gigabyte one with the 790 chipset and is compatible with the 960T and the 965. Power is not an issue as the PSU is about 500 watts.
Graphics is an 4650 PCI-E card.
I do not use the PC for gaming, but it does dual boot and I will be doing more Linux work. This may well involve compiling the kernel.
I would also like to do more on the virtual side, but this is limited as the chipset does not support the IOMMU extensions to allow virtual machines direct access to the hardware. Not having the IOMMU will also mean a higher CPU load.
The cache on the 810 will not increase even though the motherboard has the southbridge with ACC.
Rob
The PC runs genuine Win 7 Pro and Linux
The mother board is a Gigabyte one with the 790 chipset and is compatible with the 960T and the 965. Power is not an issue as the PSU is about 500 watts.
Graphics is an 4650 PCI-E card.
I do not use the PC for gaming, but it does dual boot and I will be doing more Linux work. This may well involve compiling the kernel.
I would also like to do more on the virtual side, but this is limited as the chipset does not support the IOMMU extensions to allow virtual machines direct access to the hardware. Not having the IOMMU will also mean a higher CPU load.
The cache on the 810 will not increase even though the motherboard has the southbridge with ACC.
Rob