Hello,
I just built my first system. I used the CPU, HSF, one hard drive, network card, and DVD drive from an HP Pavilion 7940 so actually it was like an upgrade. This is what I have:
ATX Tower Case, 350W PSU
DVD Drive
Pentium 3 1ghz, socket 370
A cheap HSF that came on a HP pavilion
80GB Western Digital 8mb HD.
40GB Seagate
265MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
ASUS CUV-266 motherboard
GeForce 4 MX 440 PCI video card (old system had no AGP).
Cheap 6ch sound card
The HSF from the HP isn't the best - it makes a lot of irregular noises. I haven't bought a new one yet because I will be buying a good HSF, a LED Case fan, and some cold cathode lights on ebay all at once to save shipping. So right now I only have the CPU fan which seems to run at 5000 rpm most of the time.
I don't know much about what the normal temps are so I'm asking here.
This is a screenshot of ASUS probe software that comes with the motherboard.
And this is my nice new system that isn't performing as much as I was hoping it would
I did these upgrades to make Urban Terror more playable. I am using my PCI Geforce 4 MX 440 card right now till I get an AGP card. Urban Terror ran better on the HP with this card (the HP has no AGP slot) even though it uses poor quality hard ware.
I borrowed a Geforce 4 MX 440 AGP card today for a few minutes. I get good FPS even at 1280x1024 high quality. But if I go over anything over 1024x786 low quality, and move fast, like turn around fast, it gets all choppy and drops down to 10< fps. It seems to be much worse in multiplayer than single player, and even worse when more players are in the screen. So what is the problem? CPU? Ram? My cousin playes the game with this card at 1280x1024 high quality, never goes under 60fps. He has 512mb DDR and a XP 1600.
Are these Pentium 3 1Ghz CPUs very overclockable when cooled properly? I am tempted to ditch the whole Intel setup and go with AMD so I can play my game.
Is it better to leave the side panel with the window on or off to cool it down the most? These temps were taken after browsing web pages and listening to some music - no games.
By the way, I couldn't run any 3dmark benchmarks because I can't install 3dmark for some reason.
Any help would be great.
I just built my first system. I used the CPU, HSF, one hard drive, network card, and DVD drive from an HP Pavilion 7940 so actually it was like an upgrade. This is what I have:
ATX Tower Case, 350W PSU
DVD Drive
Pentium 3 1ghz, socket 370
A cheap HSF that came on a HP pavilion
80GB Western Digital 8mb HD.
40GB Seagate
265MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
ASUS CUV-266 motherboard
GeForce 4 MX 440 PCI video card (old system had no AGP).
Cheap 6ch sound card
The HSF from the HP isn't the best - it makes a lot of irregular noises. I haven't bought a new one yet because I will be buying a good HSF, a LED Case fan, and some cold cathode lights on ebay all at once to save shipping. So right now I only have the CPU fan which seems to run at 5000 rpm most of the time.
I don't know much about what the normal temps are so I'm asking here.
This is a screenshot of ASUS probe software that comes with the motherboard.
And this is my nice new system that isn't performing as much as I was hoping it would
I did these upgrades to make Urban Terror more playable. I am using my PCI Geforce 4 MX 440 card right now till I get an AGP card. Urban Terror ran better on the HP with this card (the HP has no AGP slot) even though it uses poor quality hard ware.
I borrowed a Geforce 4 MX 440 AGP card today for a few minutes. I get good FPS even at 1280x1024 high quality. But if I go over anything over 1024x786 low quality, and move fast, like turn around fast, it gets all choppy and drops down to 10< fps. It seems to be much worse in multiplayer than single player, and even worse when more players are in the screen. So what is the problem? CPU? Ram? My cousin playes the game with this card at 1280x1024 high quality, never goes under 60fps. He has 512mb DDR and a XP 1600.
Are these Pentium 3 1Ghz CPUs very overclockable when cooled properly? I am tempted to ditch the whole Intel setup and go with AMD so I can play my game.
Is it better to leave the side panel with the window on or off to cool it down the most? These temps were taken after browsing web pages and listening to some music - no games.
By the way, I couldn't run any 3dmark benchmarks because I can't install 3dmark for some reason.
Any help would be great.
