First the parts:
Intel E6750
G.Skill 2x2GB 5-5-5-15 DDR2
Gigabyte P35 DS3P motherboard
3 Seagate 250GB SATA HDs
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB
ASUS CD-DVD Drive
Lite-On DVD Burner
Soundblaster X-FI ExtremeGamer
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
Windows Vista 64 Home Premium OEM
This system was an upgrade from a dying AMD 3700+ on an ASUS motherboard. The HDs, DVD drives, soundcard and graphic card were carry overs.
Assembly went incredibly smooth. The Ultra120 Extreme needed some serious lapping as the base was incredibly concave while the E7650 was actually very flat. All the drives are SATA so I thought I'd have issues installing Vista but during installation the drives were immediately identified. The actual installation of Vista 64 took just a few minutes and all current patches were applied.
I followed the general concensus of using only 1 stick of memory during install then added the other stick afterwards and this worked perfectly. Once Vista was installed and all drives for graphics and audio were installed I went back to the BIOS for some setting changes.
I took the stock FSB from 333 to 400 (resulting in the E6750 operating at 3.2Ghz at stock voltage. The memory timing were reduced from 5-5-5-15 to 4-4-4-12 at stock voltage. Stress tests with Prime95 and Orthos showed no instability after 8 hours.
My current MMO, EVE Online, had framerates while running 2 accounts on one system at 34-40fps at 1440x900 I now run 150-165fps. Windows Experience gives my system a rating of 5.5.
Overall this was a very VERY easy upgrade/rebuild with no hitches or major hurdles. The most difficult part was the time spent lapping the Ultra 120 Extreme.
Intel E6750
G.Skill 2x2GB 5-5-5-15 DDR2
Gigabyte P35 DS3P motherboard
3 Seagate 250GB SATA HDs
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB
ASUS CD-DVD Drive
Lite-On DVD Burner
Soundblaster X-FI ExtremeGamer
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
Windows Vista 64 Home Premium OEM
This system was an upgrade from a dying AMD 3700+ on an ASUS motherboard. The HDs, DVD drives, soundcard and graphic card were carry overs.
Assembly went incredibly smooth. The Ultra120 Extreme needed some serious lapping as the base was incredibly concave while the E7650 was actually very flat. All the drives are SATA so I thought I'd have issues installing Vista but during installation the drives were immediately identified. The actual installation of Vista 64 took just a few minutes and all current patches were applied.
I followed the general concensus of using only 1 stick of memory during install then added the other stick afterwards and this worked perfectly. Once Vista was installed and all drives for graphics and audio were installed I went back to the BIOS for some setting changes.
I took the stock FSB from 333 to 400 (resulting in the E6750 operating at 3.2Ghz at stock voltage. The memory timing were reduced from 5-5-5-15 to 4-4-4-12 at stock voltage. Stress tests with Prime95 and Orthos showed no instability after 8 hours.
My current MMO, EVE Online, had framerates while running 2 accounts on one system at 34-40fps at 1440x900 I now run 150-165fps. Windows Experience gives my system a rating of 5.5.
Overall this was a very VERY easy upgrade/rebuild with no hitches or major hurdles. The most difficult part was the time spent lapping the Ultra 120 Extreme.
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