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Good one Angelojust finished upgrading my rig today!
i kept the case, the dusty cards and drive and ripped out the old dual-core mobo/cpu/ram/fan and replaced with new Sandy Bridge i5 2500K and 8 gigs of ram goodness. :) maybe i'll stick an i7 in there one day...
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i think i may have put the heatsink/fan the wrong way round, but hey-ho, it still keeps it cool.
i used a mobo auto-overclocking feature to crank the cpu from 3.3 to 4.2 GHz - I'm sure it'll go higher if i spend some time mucking around with voltages, not sure if i'll need to yet...maybe on a rainy day.
couldn't be bothered to do any benchmarking, but this new rig sure seems a lot swifter than it used to be.
A Guy