Old pc's and knowledge

everyone has new PC's, Now I do too!
Here is a shot of my old laptop, all I had for a year...
greedilly I slammed this puppy together, with the aid of my 10 year old Laptop.(Toshiba Tecra 550 cdt 266, 64 megs o ram bla bla)..
hey I was still on line(more to the story) any hoo, here is a happy day pic and man....
Builing computers are so much fun....every part!!

 

Congrats Jaz. Building your own IS fun. Your motherboard looks familiar; same one I'm using. Not the latest generation, but it's a good board. Do you have any pics of the finished product? Here's mine.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=838267&postcount=25

I used ASUS' "My Logo" program to replace the startup ASUS splash screen with this, just to personalize it a bit.

 

I dont have a view of the guts, but it looks exactly the same, but my cooling isn't as cool
here is a pic of it in the case though ....
I knew there was a reason I thought you were ok

 

Ok Guts are in, here goes...

 

LOL at the finger prints on the cpu
I love my PC, we are best Buds

 

Currently Idles at 36' C.
Possibly GT you can pm me for some overclocking support? Need and want to learn :~)

 

Nice mod-styled case. Mine's fairly plain on the outside, but I'm an old fart. Plain suits me.

 

36C is good

finger prints on CPU? dang that must be one big CPU lol j/k thats a nice rig i would like to get a case like that for my backup rig

 

thanks

 

what model case is that? i know i seen it somewhere before but dont remember.

 

LOL. I'm probably not the best one to advise on overclocking. Last thing I bothered to overclock was a Cyrix CPU in the 486 era. Rule of thumb on overclocking is take it in very SMALL steps, testing at each step, particularly testing stability and temps under FULL load, and be prepared to invest in better cooling. Overclocking frequently requires higher voltages and more heat, and heat is your biggest enemy.

Use a good load testing app to run your processor at 100% load, and watch the system temperatures during test. I use http://www.majorgeeks.com/CPU_Stability_Test_d215.html
which maxes out the system, plus records any processing errors, which gives you a good heads-up on stability, and use ASUS PC Probe to monitor temperatures during testing. Not a bad thing to do even with a stock system to see just how hot things CAN get under load.

Honestly, other than benchmark scores, and a FEW frames/second improvement in games, I've never found a noticeable improvement from CPU overclocking. At least, not enough to warrant all the time and effort involved.

 

um, now I need to go find the box!!.....HAHA its now an end table...Gotta love big Boxes!!ok lemme look, your not gonna believe this but they put the shipping sticker right over it....
hahaha
life is good...
BRB

 

ok, I think I got it..
It's an ATX mid
Part no.YL-2531BK
P/O No 9500213
um and black and weighs about 6 kg(10.5 lbs)

 

I have noticed that the highest my CPU gets is 37'C, Cooling is not an option, I am just curious how to overclock correctly(asus ai doesnt cut it)

 

Manufacurer's name and the case name would be more helpful.

Mine's an "Armor JR", by Thermaltake.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/Chassis/midtower/armorjr/vc3000bns.asp

 

Geeze, I'm tryin here, All I see for a name is "extreme series ATX Mid tower", I know but thats all i got, It did come from Tiger Direct .ca though if that helps. Hopefully the old Laptop has a link to the actual tiger page, maybie that will help, wow!!
what a mission!!

 

I love the way I can just slam my 10 year old pc into the dual gig lan
hope i find the name of the box before i get consumed with Network issues....lmao mwhahahaha

 

LOL. It's not a big deal. And if it's from TigerDirect, it may be private labeled for them, and not show the actual manufacturer. Don't sweat it.

 

thx, was getting a bit obsessed there, even forgot about my beer!
lol, not really. still, I wish I knew.