Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Computer Upgrade

Posting this after quite a while. I've been watching the TV series Stargate all the time (literally) so no new movies and very few books.
My computer was getting a little too old so I did a mini upgrade from my Athlon 2400 XP / Asus A7V8X-MX and a Seagate 80 GB Hard disk to (WARNING: Detailed specs follow) -
CPU
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3000+
CPU Alias ClawHammer-512 S754
Instruction Set x86, x86-64, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2
Original Clock 2000 MHz
L1 Code Cache 64 KB (Parity)
L1 Data Cache 64 KB (ECC)
L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)
Package Type 754 Pin uOPGA

Motherboard
Motherboard Name MSI K8MM-V (MS-7142)

Motherboard Physical Info
CPU Sockets/Slots 1 Socket 754
Expansion Slots 3 PCI, 1 AGP
RAM Slots 2 DDR DIMM
Integrated Devices Audio, Video, LAN
Form Factor Micro ATX
Motherboard Chipset K8M800

RAM
Module Size 1024 MB (2 ranks, 4 banks)
Memory Type DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed PC3200 (200 MHz)

Hard Disk
Driver Description ST380817 AS SCSI Disk Device
Manufacturer Seagate
Hard Disk Name Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ 80817
Formatted Capacity 80 GB
Average Rotational Latency 4.16 ms
Rotational Speed 7200 RPM
Max. Internal Data Rate 683 Mbit/s
Average Seek 8.5 ms
Interface SATA
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate 150 MB/s
Buffer Size 8 MB
Spin-Up Time 10 sec