my new duron 1600

[jhu]

two weeks ago i went to the chicago fry's and found this nice deal for a socket a motherboard and memory for about $15 after rebate. pretty sweet, so i got a duron 1600 which just came 2 days ago. and then came the moment i really hate: putting that fvcking heat sink on! why the hell do these things have to be on so tight? i get rather nervous when the motherboard bends more than a few millimeters. at least the computer still works.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The good news is the P4 and A64 have done awy with difficult to install, potentially damaging designs and made it uberEZ now 🙂 For sktA the AeroFlow was the easiest one to install I used.

 

[Budman]

It's not hard to install a socket A heatsink,provided you know what you're doing. 😉

http://www.omnicast.net/~tmcfadden/guides/build/Moboprep.html

 

[Zebo]

Should have got a Dell! Leave the building to your average 10 yr old.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I don't think it's tough, but it scares the hell out of me every time.

 

[MDE]

Just be careful, make sure the heatsink isn't backwards, and use a steady hand and you'll be fine.

 

[jhu]

hey, i just figured out that holding the heatsink up while pushing the clip down doesn't bend the motherboard as much.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

$15 eh? you can get that applebred to pull 2.2ghz if you want. that would be hands down the most amazing bang for the buck computer ever for $15 🙂

 

[jhu]

actually, it's more like $55 since the processor did cost about 3x more than the motherboard and memory. hmm... and i can sell the old motherboard, cpu, and memory...

 

[SneakyStuff]

haha I remember my first socket A heatsink, I felt like I was going to break the table the mobo was sitting on. After that tho, things are much easier. BTW, nice find, i've been wanting to build a Duron system for myself, just for kicks 🙂

 

[jhu]

i have some povray benchmarks. they're much faster than my old celeron 800. they even beat my dad's celeron 2ghz by 33%. what i find interesting is that the gcc compiled binaries beat the icc binaries. it was vice versa on my celeron.

gcc.386:
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 2.0 seconds (2 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 1.0 seconds (61 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 40 minutes 49.0 seconds (2449 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 41 minutes 52.0 seconds (2512 seconds)

gcc.586:
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 2.0 seconds (2 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 4.0 seconds (64 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 43 minutes 18.0 seconds (2598 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 44 minutes 24.0 seconds (2664 seconds)

gcc.686:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 1.0 seconds (61 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 40 minutes 11.0 seconds (2411 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 41 minutes 14.0 seconds (2474 seconds)

gcc.athlonxp:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 0 minutes 60.0 seconds (60 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 39 minutes 43.0 seconds (2383 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 40 minutes 46.0 seconds (2446 seconds)

gcc.athlonxp.nounroll:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 0 minutes 60.0 seconds (60 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 41 minutes 41.0 seconds (2501 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 42 minutes 44.0 seconds (2564 seconds)

gcc.athlonxp.sse"
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 3.0 seconds (3 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 0 minutes 60.0 seconds (60 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 40 minutes 46.0 seconds (2446 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 41 minutes 49.0 seconds (2509 seconds)

gcc.athlonxp.sse.387:
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 3.0 seconds (3 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 0 minutes 59.0 seconds (59 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 39 minutes 48.0 seconds (2388 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 40 minutes 50.0 seconds (2450 seconds)

icc.586:
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 3.0 seconds (3 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 1.0 seconds (61 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 42 minutes 13.0 seconds (2533 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 43 minutes 17.0 seconds (2597 seconds)

icc.586.ip:
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 2.0 seconds (2 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 1.0 seconds (61 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 42 minutes 50.0 seconds (2570 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 43 minutes 53.0 seconds (2633 seconds)

icc.586.ipo:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 0 minutes 60.0 seconds (60 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 41 minutes 42.0 seconds (2502 seconds)
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icc.686:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 7.0 seconds (67 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 43 minutes 36.0 seconds (2616 seconds)
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icc.686.ip:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 8.0 seconds (68 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 44 minutes 41.0 seconds (2681 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 45 minutes 51.0 seconds (2751 seconds)

icc.686.ipo:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 6.0 seconds (66 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 42 minutes 7.0 seconds (2527 seconds)
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icc.katmai:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 7.0 seconds (67 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 45 minutes 5.0 seconds (2705 seconds)
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icc.katmai.ip:
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Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 5.0 seconds (65 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 44 minutes 15.0 seconds (2655 seconds)
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icc.katmai.ipo:
Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 3.0 seconds (3 seconds)
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 4.0 seconds (64 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 43 minutes 38.0 seconds (2618 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 44 minutes 45.0 seconds (2685 seconds)