THE POWER!

So I did all those upgrades and still decided to overclock the CPU - after all, it is an unlocked Black Edition. So I bumped the CPU multiplier from 16 to 18 for a 12.5% bump in CPU speed. I didn't touch the voltages, and if it starts running full bore for any length of time, it would give the existing fans a very hard time.

Now Running - Debian Squeeze!

Quite a few upgrades both hardware and software to catch up on:

Upgraded hardware to Athlon II X2 245 CPU on a Gigabyte MA-785GM-US2H. This CPU overclocks nicely (and the DDR2 overclocked also.)

Then upgraded to a Phenom X6 1090T with 8Gb of DDR2 1066. Ended up buying a new Antec Solo case to get the heat and noise under control - very nice case. (I feel no need to overclock this chip.)

Tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS amd64 and FAILED! (Funny, the live disk ran fine!)

Then upgraded to Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 amd64. (I took a hard look at Archlinux and may still give that a try later.) All working very well - I seem to conveniently forget how much custom software I have to install and compile every time I do this.

Oops! Long TIme - No Post

Ouch! Long time no post.

We'll try and get a few out.