Reboot V2.0 + Upgrade Path

Okay, its been another reaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly long break between posts.....

So here I am, back on the blogosphere, raving and ranting about computers as usual....

There's one thing you gotta both love and hate about computers. They are upgradable...

The love part is that when building one personally, you can leave upgrade paths open by making a few decisions that will help ya go places later..

The hate part is that given the speed of development of all these new computer components, as soon as you leave an upgrade path, it begs to be followed...

And thus we reach the crux of the matter being discussed in this post.

Today, I upgraded my machine.

From a lowly 1.8GHz single core processor and a basic mainboard, to components that in their heyday were the best there were - The ASUS A8N SLi Mainboard, and the Opteron 165 Dual Core processor. While the stock clock speed of the processor is the same as my older one, its got twice the L2 cache per core, quadrupling it. AND, given that the A8N SLI was a top board, it is extremely suited to overclocking, thereby allowing me to get a lot more outta the opty 165 that I now have.

As of now, it is just a 20% processor overclock, that I later intend to take to close to 40% - will hafta adjust the RAM speeds some more. But I will get there someday - when the weather is cold enough :D.