Help Us Upgrade Older SMx Rigs
profdlp
The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
In addition to continuing to roll out new SMx computers, we are also beginning a program to upgrade some of the older rigs. They were great in their day, but as you can see from the following list, their day has passed.
The rigs we'd like to start with are these:
In many cases, a simple CPU upgrade will do the trick. Slide the old one out, pop the new one in, and watch the points start to pile up. For the two PIII rigs and a couple of others with MB limitations it's going to take a bit more.
We'd like to have donors ship parts directly to the Hosts. The purpose of this thread is to match up donors with Hosts and have the process go as smoothly as possible.
If you are a prospective donor: Please list the items you would be willing to donate here in this thread. Athlon XP CPU's are the most critical need.
If you are currently Hosting one of the rigs listed above: Please research the capability of the current MB in the rig you are Hosting. We need to identify which computers can immediately benefit from a simple CPU upgrade.
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As I said before, this isn't going to stop us from offering new rigs to new Hosts - we just want to bring the earlier rigs up to date with better Folding power.
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The rigs we'd like to start with are these:
- SM1 – 1000 Tbird
- SM2 – 1400 Tbird
- SM3 – 1333 Tbird
- SM4 – 1700+
- SM5 – <s>1600+</s> Duron 1100
- SM9 – Intel PIII 1000
- SM12 – 1000 Tbird
- SM13 – Intel PIII 1000
- SM14 – 1000 TBird
- SM15 – 1600+
- <s>SM16 – 1000 Tbird</s> Upgraded to an Athlon 2600+ by Necropolis
- SM17 – 1600+
- SM20 – 1600+
In many cases, a simple CPU upgrade will do the trick. Slide the old one out, pop the new one in, and watch the points start to pile up. For the two PIII rigs and a couple of others with MB limitations it's going to take a bit more.
We'd like to have donors ship parts directly to the Hosts. The purpose of this thread is to match up donors with Hosts and have the process go as smoothly as possible.
If you are a prospective donor: Please list the items you would be willing to donate here in this thread. Athlon XP CPU's are the most critical need.
If you are currently Hosting one of the rigs listed above: Please research the capability of the current MB in the rig you are Hosting. We need to identify which computers can immediately benefit from a simple CPU upgrade.
:smokin:
As I said before, this isn't going to stop us from offering new rigs to new Hosts - we just want to bring the earlier rigs up to date with better Folding power.
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The plan is to work our way up from the lowest speed CPU's while best matching donations to existing MB's. Like GHoosdum mentioned about the Gigabyte board, if something comes in that won't work in one system we'll just go right on up the line until we find a place where it will.
Of course, if we get some new MB's to go along with the CPU's we'll have it made. :woowoo:
I'd be willing to bet that a great many of you are like me in that when you upgrade your main rig you also see a trickle-down effect with other computers, possibly including those of family and friends. When I went 64-Bit last year one of my nephews got my old TBird 1200 rig. When I built my daughter a nice system a while back another nephew got her old parts for a rig of his own.
This is just an example, but lets take Sledge's offer of the 2100+ in SM33. If we can send that to the Host of one of the 1600+ rigs we get an immediate 38% boost. If someone donates an older MB capable of handling a 1600+ we can send them both to rejuvenate one of the PIII rigs. Etc, etc, etc.
This is purely hypothetical at this point - it's really going to depend on what the team donates.
One thing I'd like to mention is that since many of the older rigs use SDRAM (not DDR), a MB donation that could handle a decent XP+ CPU and the old-school RAM would be great. Something like the vaunted ECS K7S5A which can handle both would be terrific.
Anyway, just wanted to get your list right. I thought it was known. Probably my fault again. Sorry, guys.
Help is on the way.
//Edit: Okay, here's the motherboard. It's an MSI KT4VL.
Looks like it will support any AXP processor up to a 333 FSB.
We're going to see that IC13_BartWilliams turns into "Lucky Thirteen".
We'll get 'er juiced up.
Anyone?
Sorry can't help here, no S478 boards in the spare's bin.
We need to discuss at some point what we can do for SM12, I have a number choices of things I could contribute to upgrade her. i.e one of the following.
1 x Athlon XP1700 T'bred
or
AsRock K7S8XE (Socket A)
or
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Socket A)
or
Epox 9NDA3 (S939)
I dont have a spare S939 cpu so if that option was chosen we'd be needing a big contribution.
Regards
Jim
Did I figure that right?
Prof, you have PM.
Hi Prof,
Sorry to take so long to get back to you, um no you didn't figure it right and I'm going to sound a bit harsh here but there is a limit to the hit my parts bin can take. I can only afford to donate one of those on list having previously donated :
Ram
2X hard drives
Alpha Pal 8045
1.2Ghz Athlon Thunderbird
Also SM12 is currently residing in one of my cases as I never got the money to buy one.
Hosts are responsible to keep the SMx Rig running sound. Upgrading is not a requirement. If you CAN donate, that's cool, but not necessary. We can help get the SMx rig flying... No worries.... we're here to help.:headbange
True, but I am part of the team & a generous chappy by nature so it was easier for me donate what I could rather than get parts shipped from USA.
As for the case, someone will be in touch with you soon. That was just an oversight on our part.
SM12 will be packing a little more muscle soon.