Upgrade
My AMD Athlon 900 MHz has arrived and so has the Asus A7V motherboard complete with 128 MB PC133 RAM. I decided that it would be better not to buy 256 MB RAM after the prices suddenly sky-rocketed. About a month ago the prices rose about 125$ for 256 MB. But fortunately the Athlons dropped in price, so now I can afford a 900 MHz instead of a 850 MHz.
That’s all very nice, but after I had replaced the old motherboard and CPU,
the machine wouldn’t boot. It crashed mysteriously every time. Then I
looked though the BIOS — everything looked fine, it had detected the
correct processor, RAM, etc. But when I looked at the “Hardware Monitor”
section I found the culprit. The processor was getting hotter and hotter
every second! The temperature rose with about 1 degree Celsius per second.
And this was when the computer was completely idle. I watched the
temperature go from 35 to 75 degrees Celsius (from 95 to 167 degrees
Fahrenheit) in a very short time. Not a pleasant sight. So now I’ve
ordered a new cooler for the
Athlon, a “Titan
Socket A Cooler (Golden Orb)” from
Thermaltake. So lets hope that can keep it
cool.
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