Nobody's fault but mine. . .

A long couple of days work has born fruit. The M4A88TD-V XP x64
machine that I described as 'dragging its feet is speeding now.
Although the updates sparked a little 'life' into the internal
graphics, it was still running with absolutely no reserves. I stripped
the box of all internals that took up any of the room left inside for
the purpose of installing the nVidia 7900GTX which had also given me
trouble before.

This, because it is quite a long card and I couldn't fit it in
previously behind the three HD's.

The reason it was not performing was that I had put it in slot #2,
since the manual confirmed this could be done, but that slot #1 was
recommended for reasons of stabillity and performance.

The HD's had to come out and be repositioned, not forgetting the
possible temperature impact. It was difficult and slow going, and
bloodshed ensued and small items disappeared inside several times.
When the GF slipped into it's designated new home it broke a small
plastic edge off of one of the SATA connectors - luckily the MB
accomodates for 6 SATA drives so I could pull out the paralel three
connector cable set and continue. I could finally close the box and
power up, disable the internal graphics and install the GF drivers.

I have to say, these new drivers are something of a wonder - and not a
small one either, I left this card when the drivers nr:ed. in the 94's
- this time it was 270.x. This system is purring now and there is
nothing giving the slightest inclination that it cannot manage in idle
with one hand on the back and sleeping with one eye. Wonderfull. If
anyone out there is still using GF's I recommend these.The
temperatures have gone up a little, from CPU 31 - MB 31C's to CPU 35 -
MB 32C's. Job well done it would seem


Tony. . .

The grey No 2 slot has only x4 bandwidth, not the x16 of the blue No 1 slot.


On 15/05/2011 18:44, Tony wrote:
> A long couple of days work has born fruit. The M4A88TD-V XP x64
> machine that I described as 'dragging its feet is speeding now.
> Although the updates sparked a little 'life' into the internal
> graphics, it was still running with absolutely no reserves. I stripped
> the box of all internals that took up any of the room left inside for
> the purpose of installing the nVidia 7900GTX which had also given me
> trouble before.
>
> This, because it is quite a long card and I couldn't fit it in
> previously behind the three HD's.
>
> The reason it was not performing was that I had put it in slot #2,
> since the manual confirmed this could be done, but that slot #1 was
> recommended for reasons of stabillity and performance.
>
> The HD's had to come out and be repositioned, not forgetting the
> possible temperature impact. It was difficult and slow going, and
> bloodshed ensued and small items disappeared inside several times.
> When the GF slipped into it's designated new home it broke a small
> plastic edge off of one of the SATA connectors - luckily the MB
> accomodates for 6 SATA drives so I could pull out the paralel three
> connector cable set and continue. I could finally close the box and
> power up, disable the internal graphics and install the GF drivers.
>
> I have to say, these new drivers are something of a wonder - and not a
> small one either, I left this card when the drivers nr:ed. in the 94's
> - this time it was 270.x. This system is purring now and there is
> nothing giving the slightest inclination that it cannot manage in idle
> with one hand on the back and sleeping with one eye. Wonderfull. If
> anyone out there is still using GF's I recommend these.The
> temperatures have gone up a little, from CPU 31 - MB 31C's to CPU 35 -
> MB 32C's. Job well done it would seem
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>

On 5/15/2011 10:44 AM, Tony wrote:
> A long couple of days work has born fruit. The M4A88TD-V XP x64
> machine that I described as 'dragging its feet is speeding now.
> Although the updates sparked a little 'life' into the internal
> graphics, it was still running with absolutely no reserves. I stripped
> the box of all internals that took up any of the room left inside for
> the purpose of installing the nVidia 7900GTX which had also given me
> trouble before.
>
> This, because it is quite a long card and I couldn't fit it in
> previously behind the three HD's.
>
> The reason it was not performing was that I had put it in slot #2,
> since the manual confirmed this could be done, but that slot #1 was
> recommended for reasons of stabillity and performance.
>
> The HD's had to come out and be repositioned, not forgetting the
> possible temperature impact. It was difficult and slow going, and
> bloodshed ensued and small items disappeared inside several times.
> When the GF slipped into it's designated new home it broke a small
> plastic edge off of one of the SATA connectors - luckily the MB
> accomodates for 6 SATA drives so I could pull out the paralel three
> connector cable set and continue. I could finally close the box and
> power up, disable the internal graphics and install the GF drivers.
>
> I have to say, these new drivers are something of a wonder - and not a
> small one either, I left this card when the drivers nr:ed. in the 94's
> - this time it was 270.x. This system is purring now and there is
> nothing giving the slightest inclination that it cannot manage in idle
> with one hand on the back and sleeping with one eye. Wonderfull. If
> anyone out there is still using GF's I recommend these.The
> temperatures have gone up a little, from CPU 31 - MB 31C's to CPU 35 -
> MB 32C's. Job well done it would seem
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
When one's "box" purrs then life is good!!

On May 15, 8:32*pm, Dominic Payer <d...@dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote:
> The grey No 2 slot has only x4 bandwidth, not the x16 of the blue No 1 slot.
>

Sorry, no - this board actually do have 2 x16 slots. Apparently, it
prefers to populate them in order. The difference is collosal
(colloenormous?), well within bounds of that slot having been x4.
Could be power consumption related. . .Don't know.


Tony. . .

On May 15, 8:34*pm, Drew <Aylen1...@invalid.nospam.net> wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 10:44 AM, Tony wrote:
>
>
>
> > A long couple of days work has born fruit. The M4A88TD-V XP x64


> When one's "box" purrs then life is good!!- Hide quoted text -
>

> - Show quoted text -

Correct! sweet, indeed. (He,he)


Tony. . .

The grey slot is an x16 slot but only has x4 bandwidth.

There are some boards with only one x16 slot with that slot having only
x4 bandwidth. Adequate for basic computing but not for gaming.


On 15/05/2011 21:02, Tony wrote:
> On May 15, 8:32 pm, Dominic Payer<d...@dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote:
>> The grey No 2 slot has only x4 bandwidth, not the x16 of the blue No 1 slot.
>>
>
> Sorry, no - this board actually do have 2 x16 slots. Apparently, it
> prefers to populate them in order. The difference is collosal
> (colloenormous?), well within bounds of that slot having been x4.
> Could be power consumption related. . .Don't know.
>
>
> Tony. . .

>
> There are some boards with only one x16 slot with that slot having only
> x4 bandwidth. Adequate for basic computing but not for gaming.
>


Yes, that is (or was) usually the case, I really couldn't afford
buying anything at the time, but I had to and I saved two cores on the
CPU to have the basic needs covered tirst. I don't know if I will ever
go SLI or Crossfire but do know that chances are slim that I will ever
need a x4 slot there.


Tony. . .

Tony,
Never go either SLI or Crossfire.
The added performance is less than the $$$ required for buying a
single faster card.
The newer card will run faster and require less juice than two cards
working in parallel.
Carlos

On May 15, 7:28*pm, Tony <tsperl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > There are some boards with only one x16 slot with that slot having only
> > x4 bandwidth. Adequate for basic computing but not for gaming.
>
> Yes, that is (or was) usually the case, I really couldn't afford
> buying anything at the time, but I had to and I saved two cores on the
> CPU to have the basic needs covered tirst. I don't know if I will ever
> go SLI or Crossfire but do know that chances are slim that I will ever
> need a x4 slot there.
>
> Tony. . .

On May 16, 7:01*pm, Carlos <atashia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony,
> Never go either SLI or Crossfire.
> The added performance is less than the $$$ required for buying a
> single faster card.

Yes, that expres just about the conclusion that I had arrived at.When
one good card does the job there is little chance two will double the
satisfaction potential.


Tony. . .

Yes, it sure does make a difference!

When I built this latest box, the change was night and day. And I don't
game. But even for every day things it's huge. (Went from windows index of
3.4 to 7.1!)

Charlie.

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On May 15, 8:34 pm, Drew <Aylen1...@invalid.nospam.net> wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 10:44 AM, Tony wrote:
>
>
>
> > A long couple of days work has born fruit. The M4A88TD-V XP x64


> When one's "box" purrs then life is good!!- Hide quoted text -
>

> - Show quoted text -

Correct! sweet, indeed. (He,he)


Tony. . .