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Phenom: Phew! it works

Monday, February 18th, 2008

So, the pro­ject was ori­gin­ally quite simple. Upgrade the AMD Ath­lon pro­cessor to a Phe­nom pro­cessor.
The Giga­byte mother­board sup­por­ted the AM2 socket sys­tem, there­fore replace­ment of the pro­cessor by simple drop in and out. Oh, but com­puters are never that easy.
After fail­ing to boot with con­stant long beeps: I decided to pur­chase an ASUS motherboard. […]

AMD Phenom Phantom on Gigabyte Guts with no Glory">AMD Phenom Phantom on Gigabyte Guts with no Glory

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Accord­ing to doc­u­ment­a­tion, you should just be able to socket replace your AMD Ath­lon (Socket AM2) with an AMD Phe­nom. Boot, and watch the bits fly. Well, the­or­et­ic­ally.
In my Gigabyte’s case: this was not to be so. The smal­ler Giga­byte GA-MA69GM-S2H (blah!) is in our Media Cen­ter PC. This com­bin­a­tion has been work­ing well in […]

Weekend Project: Windows Media Center

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Yes, I know that the cor­rect eng­lish spelling of Cen­ter is Centre.

Thanks to the gen­er­os­ity of Jeffa, I scored an old Mini-ATX case with power sup­ply. Yeah, being the junior on the team — I get all the hand-me-downs.
Some hun­dreds of dol­lars later from AUS­P­CMar­ket, and I have my first ever:

AMD based PC (AMD Athlan64 x2 6000+)
Gigabyte […]