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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on September 16, 2010, 10:46:04 pm

Title: So I finally did it
Post by: Liberator on September 16, 2010, 10:46:04 pm
Before I start, let me get this said, "Shame on you!  Get your mind outta the gutter!"  :drevil:

Now, on to business:

I upgraded my processor from an Core 2 Duo 4300 to a C2D 8500 with a brand new install of Windows 7.

My problem is that I didn't install it to the "right" drive.  I meant to go over the existing XP install but instead went over the top of a bunch of apps I haven't used in a while and about half my torrent collection. :sigh:

So the computer has a dual install of XP/7.  Is there any way to get rid of windows xp without redoing the whole thing again?
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: redsniper on September 16, 2010, 11:53:21 pm
You can just delete the XP partition and then resize the 7 partition to use the newly made 'empty' space, I think. Just make sure you get anything you want off that partition first...
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: kode on September 18, 2010, 02:11:23 pm
C2D 4300 to 8500 doesn't sound like much of a step up at all, though.
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: Liberator on September 18, 2010, 08:59:58 pm
The 4300 is a 1.8ghz and the 8500 is 3.16.

I have something odd happening though, sometimes I hear one of my hard drives spin down with a click like the power cut off.  This PSU is less than 2 years old and nothing is visibly affected and if I browse to the drive it spins back up after a second.  Is this some fancy power management that Windows is doing with my SATA drives that I don't access regularly?
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 19, 2010, 03:05:31 am
C2D 4300 to 8500 doesn't sound like much of a step up at all, though.

In addition to the faster clock speed, the 8500 has 3 times the L2 cache, a faster bus speed, and a couple of other bits and pieces (virtualisation mostly) that make it something of a step up, depending on what he paid for it. Price cuts on the newer stuff is making the older stuff less of a value option, but if he was able to pick it up for less than a new i3 then it's not that bad of a deal.
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: kode on September 19, 2010, 03:40:41 am
C2D 4300 to 8500 doesn't sound like much of a step up at all, though.

In addition to the faster clock speed, the 8500 has 3 times the L2 cache, a faster bus speed, and a couple of other bits and pieces (virtualisation mostly) that make it something of a step up, depending on what he paid for it. Price cuts on the newer stuff is making the older stuff less of a value option, but if he was able to pick it up for less than a new i3 then it's not that bad of a deal.

And it's still just a dual core, but I guess since the whole Core 2 line is being phased out there can be deals to be made on retailers trying to dump old stock, sure.
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 19, 2010, 04:17:08 am
Dual core is perfectly fine for most people since a significant chunk of the consumer desktop market just don't do enough heavily multithreaded tasks to justify a quad.
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: Liberator on September 19, 2010, 04:24:20 am
Well, I'm a WoW player and I use that for my benchmark.

My FPS doubled with shadows on.  Previously, I had to run it without shadows and with the second lowest AA setting.
Title: Re: So I finally did it
Post by: kode on September 19, 2010, 06:10:35 am
Dual core is perfectly fine for most people since a significant chunk of the consumer desktop market just don't do enough heavily multithreaded tasks to justify a quad.

Yeah, I suppose we can't all use gnu and have adobe flush take one core for itself, or stitch panoramas for that matter.