ivc blog

This morning I got the new system parts I ordered last week. I’ve had in mind to upgrade my workstation for a while, mainly add more memory. But after Intel announced their new Core 2 Duo processor chips in mid july, I started to read news that AMD would dump the prices on their chips up to 50%. A move to still have a competative edge against Intel latest and greatest. I decided that it was time to jump in and upgrade both the memory and the cpu. My setup really could take advantage of dual-core as I’m a heavy duty multitasker (my friends would probably agree).

I sold the premium OCZ 1 GB Extreme Latency (2-2-2-5) memory sticks I had to invest in new pair of Corsair 2 GB CMX1024-3200C2 (2-3-3-6) memory sticks. I sold them for 950 kr and the new one cost 1770 kr. Not a bad deal I think.

The new cpu I decided to go with was the AMD 64 X2 4400+ with 2x 1 MB cache for each core. I found that it was the best value for the money and I wanted something that would last the rest of the systems life. It replaced a very nice AMD 64 3000+ vince. The previous price point for new cpu was around 4000 kr, and I payed 2050 kr for it after AMD dumped the price last week.

I’m very happy with the upgrade and I can recommend against running a new system on 512 MB memory. It’s just so slove and the system has to swap memory to disk constantly. I had to do that for a week while waiting for the new sticks (the cpu was backordered). With dual-core everything is really responsive and fast, I have only played with the new upgrades for a few hours but I’m just starting to enjoy the jump in performance.

Unfortunately I didn’t have any Artive Silver 5 available and I had to go with the stock thermal pad on the cooler for now. Btw, the cooler is a lot bigger than the stock cooler for the AMD 64 3000+. Pipes and the lot.

Here’s a few pictures I took of new goods and a few showing them installed.