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Project General Melchett: Stage 2.

By Nick Hodge | November 28, 2007

As the 8800GT is on backorder, time to borrow Liam's old ATI Radeon 1950Pro and start the installation process. Also a good time to clean up the cables a little inside.

Good news. General Melchett boots. BIOS finds all the hardware bit first time around. The CPU is not fried.

Vista takes an impressively short amount of time to install from DVD.

There is a technique known as "feeling the hard drive's vibrations" that few geeks know. Sort of like being a geek whisperer. You can feel the bits being installed onto the drive.

And we're live!

It's strange that the memory performance is a 5.6. I tried a few quick tweaky things and broke the startup. Back to Gigabyte defaults and all worked OK again.

Software installation and configuration time!

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6 Responses to “Project General Melchett: Stage 2.”

Andrew Tobin Says:
November 28th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Impressive stuff!

I Vista'd up my work laptop and ended up with an Experience Index of 1.0.

Damn laptops and their lack of high end gaming graphics.

Works fine, I just won't be pushing it hard with WPF I don't think!
Nick Hodge Says:
November 29th, 2007 at 1:34 am
1.0 oooh... yeah, older businessy style laptops usually leave off fancy 3D.
Phillip Molly Malone Says:
November 29th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Can't remember if my home Vista box is a 4.2 or 5.2. Is there somewhere that does a good job of explaining the difference?
Molly
Nick Hodge Says:
November 30th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Molly: Windows Performance Rating Explained:

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/pages/458117.aspx
CPU Temperatures and Overlocking | www.nickhodge.com Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 am
[...] Project General Melchett: Stage 2. [...]
Phillip Molly Malone Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Cool, Checked it out again and I do have a 4.2 ranking only because of my Graphics card. This is fine as I don't play games and the likes on it!
Molly

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