On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 7:44:15 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 8:28:42 PM UTC-4, Terry Coombs wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:
Yeah , I'm still dickin' around with my desktop . I've decided it's
time to upgrade to a quad core in this comp , Asus M2A-VM mobo ,
socket AM2 currently running an Athlon X2 2.3 Ghz processor .
I have determined (from the Asus support website) that this mobo will
support a Phenom 9150 quad processor which is socket AM2+ , but I'll
have to update the BIOS . The question is , do I update before I
install the new processor or after ? Either way , the suggested
method is to flash it from a USB stick . I've found the suggested
BIOS on the Asus website , and can download it at any time .
Actually , I might do the server comp first , same mobo but a slower
Athlon X2 processor . If I'm gonna brick one I'd rather it was that
one ...

I've just ordered a new hdd , figure that before I start making any
serious changes in this box I'll do a clean install and see how it acts .
I'd wipe the one that's in there but there are programs I can't replace ...
and I can always hook it up with my little adapter to access those if needed
. Probably do a minimal install , I don't use a lot of those programs often
and if I need one , as above I can hook up the old drive . It's amazing ,
new WD Caviar blue 320Gb drives are under 20 bucks now . Not so long ago I
was paying over $50 a pop .
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Snag

If all you need is 320GB, for not too much more you can get a
solid state drive. I did that when my 1.5TB HD died. I'm only
using 75MB, so I replaced it with a 250GB SSD. System boots in
about 20 secs now. I paid about $70, that was 8 months ago.

Where did you get an SSD for under $70. I bought a Samsung SSD a few years ago when I was still at home for my Dell Precision T3400 beast. It's a quad processor machine I bought refurbished and with the solid state drive and a minimal load of apps, it would be ready to go from turning on the power strip and pushing the power button in 16 seconds. It was the first SSD drive I ever dealt with in a desktop computer and I was really impressed with the performance. The one in my little Chromebook is a tiny 16GB SSD. Back in 2013 I bought a 64GB IDE SSD for an older laptop and it speeded it up quite a bit. I paid $113.00 for that one from Amazon. Then in 2014 I bought the Samsung 250GB SSD for $138.00 from Amazon which is the one I installed in The Beast. The latest version of that drive is now $90.00. The prices are really dropping on internal drives but I'm wondering that with the proliferation of free "Cloud" storage, are you going need a large internal drive anymore? My little Chromebook has a tiny 16GB internal drive and everything is saved to Google Drive so if my Chromebook gronks, I can access my stuff from any Internet connected computer. That's progress for ya. ^_^

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