Ahhh, upgrade time again...

External Since: Jan 20, 2008 Posts: 5

Ok, so's I will bore anyone that once to bother to read...

Normally, I do my major upgrading around this time of year. However, I got
my new EVGA 780i in late December, shortly after release. My Intel Core2 Duo
E6600 is performing great at 3.24 ghz, and don't want to replace it till the
new 45nm quads are released.

However, I ain't happy unless I am tinkering every now and then, so here is
what I have done and am doing:

I added 2 more gb of Corsair Dominator PC8500 ram, last Friday, bringing my
total to 4gb running at 1066 mhz .

I received this week, while out of town, a new CoolerMaster Evolution case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119122

I also ordered a few extra 120 mm fans, 4 for the side panel, and one to
exhaust out the top, to go along with the intake and exhaust fans already
supplied.

I hope to get all my parts moved into the new case, sometime tomorrow. With
the better cooling scheme, I hope to get my overclock on my E6600 up
somewhere between 3.4-3.6 ghz.

Then, all that is left I want to do, is order Vista Ultimate 64 bit ( which
is why I wanted to increase my ram to 4gb), and another sata hard drive to
devote to it, and dual boot with XP Pro. I am curious to do a comparison, of
FSX on XP Pro, and Vista running in DX10.

Hey, I think I have seen where some on here, are dual booting and running
FSX on two operating systems, any problems doing this with one copy of FSX,
regarding activation?

--
Don

External Since: Jan 20, 2008 Posts: 5

Oops, sorry all, meant to post to another group.

--
Don

"Don" <burnetted.DeleteThis@clotheshotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6pSdncDNMrqBtSvanZ2dnUVZ_r6rnZ2d@giganews.com...
> Ok, so's I will bore anyone that once to bother to read...
>
> Normally, I do my major upgrading around this time of year. However, I
> got my new EVGA 780i in late December, shortly after release. My Intel
> Core2 Duo E6600 is performing great at 3.24 ghz, and don't want to replace
> it till the new 45nm quads are released.
>
> However, I ain't happy unless I am tinkering every now and then, so here
> is what I have done and am doing:
>
> I added 2 more gb of Corsair Dominator PC8500 ram, last Friday, bringing
> my total to 4gb running at 1066 mhz .
>
> I received this week, while out of town, a new CoolerMaster Evolution
> case.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119122
>
> I also ordered a few extra 120 mm fans, 4 for the side panel, and one to
> exhaust out the top, to go along with the intake and exhaust fans already
> supplied.
>
> I hope to get all my parts moved into the new case, sometime tomorrow.
> With the better cooling scheme, I hope to get my overclock on my E6600 up
> somewhere between 3.4-3.6 ghz.
>
> Then, all that is left I want to do, is order Vista Ultimate 64 bit (
> which is why I wanted to increase my ram to 4gb), and another sata hard
> drive to devote to it, and dual boot with XP Pro. I am curious to do a
> comparison, of FSX on XP Pro, and Vista running in DX10.
>
> Hey, I think I have seen where some on here, are dual booting and running
> FSX on two operating systems, any problems doing this with one copy of
> FSX, regarding activation?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>