02/10/2003 - a new world

This page refers to [[anatomie:anatomie|my previous page which could be named "pics of junks"]] ... This one will deal with the installation and my advice on what I just bought : a new motherboard+Processor+DDR Ram. Just enjoy, but sorry for the shade effect on pictures, a violent parkingson attack I presume ...

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</box|My brand new Intel P4C 2.8GHz ! Rahhhh ... Just one bad point : the box looks good, but the inside is really cheap for a processor of that value ! Ah, Intel ... My last one was a PIII 550B, and I was pretty happy with it ... but, one day, they decided that slot 1 was a mistake ... I take this shot for it's size. Look at it ! It's just terrific>

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</box|My new motherboard : Asus P4C800. I didn't take the Deluxe since the only difference seems to be the second serial ATA connector, and maybe a firewire port.>

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</box|Corsair TWinX PC3200 Low Latency 2*256Mo DDR SDRam. Quite a name ... But I'm still not sure that've done a good deal, in fact, I took them in order to have the maximum stability, the Low Latency and things do not mean that much for me. Especially since I still don't know if the "auto" settings of the motherboard take full advantage of those RAM modules.>


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</box|If you remember the lasts shots, my graphic card is approxymately 5cm wide, so you can imagine what for a kid game this socket 478 is ! Smaller than a 486 ... I may try once to compare it to a 386.>

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</box|This thing is noisy ! That's my next tunning objective : be quiet ! For those who are curious, the two plastic things looking like the one on a ZIF socket are used to maintain everything. And it's pretty strong ! More than all I ever seen when setting a socket, with the big advantage to be really easy to remove.>

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</box|The Agp pro effect, double size, double speed, double cost ?>

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</box|Quite a number of things behind. Note that this motherboard is "thinking" ... Well, in fact it detects on boot if the 3 rear jacks have something else plugged in. Yes, if you use the 6.1 feature, you won't be able to use a mic. Except maybe with the SPDIF ?>

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</box|Black, they are black. I suppose it is part of the "today's computer world", maybe tomorrow with leds ?>

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</box|Final look. Yes, I didn't successfully resist ... I filled those places with fans ... And the front one too ... Which made the "quiet" objective pretty hard to reach.>

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</box|Final look : two stickers !>

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</box|I love the plug&play !>

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</box|I love the plug&play second ! but this one is for linux ... It seems that the motherboard isn't yet supported by the kernel 2.6.0-test6. At first, I did have to keep pushed any key in order to get the computer continue working (in this case, compiling a kernel). And after, I've discovered a compatibility mode in the bios (after an update of it) and all the problemd come from the IDE bus which is at IRQ 18 instead of the normal 14/15 ... But with this answer, I'm still not up : the Gigabit Lan chip from 3com is also not supported ... Next time ...>

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