V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 A pal of mine is building/upgrading a system and tossing some parts my way. I will be inheriting a Gigabyte GA-890 (AM3) mobo along with an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU complete with water cooling system. I think I might be able to use this as a base for a new Frankenputer (ericsbane07). Oh, boy! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 It looks like a good board. The integrated graphics will be fine with AMD's FOSS driver and it supports SATA3 and DDR3. And of course the 1090T is a fine processor - arguably better than the early Bulldozer chips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 The onboard graphics are Radeon. I'm not a fan of Radeon. I'll use my GTS-450 Nvidia card, probably. Once I get it all built and running, it'll definitely be an upgrade from ericsbane06. Oh, and I'm surprised this got posted at all. It was just going round and round in the browser until it 404'd on me. I just closed the tab and forgot about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) I've had trouble with lagging posts as well lately. I assumed it was my crappy broadband - which BTW has improved now that I have a new deal with Rogers. What is your friend building? Intel Skylake with DDR4? Maybe you can get his old memory too. I like AMD a lot better with Linux than I used to - especially the FOSS driver which is streets ahead of Nouveau. Of course Nvidia supports older hardware better with its proprietary driver so you are in good shape either way. Edited April 19, 2016 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 There's a slowdown/bottleneck going on with the board's server the past few days, I think. It's still happening tonight, actually. Strangely enough, my pal is beefing up his old Phenom Quad Core machine. He took the newer drives, vid card, PSU and other goodies out of this Phenom II X6 machine that was given to him by a friend of his at work. He's happy with his old mobo/cpu, so he's sticking with it and just beefing up a bit. I'm not going to question his generosity. I could use a bit of an upgrade. My ericsbane06 (built from parts I dug up in the wee hours from the computer graveyard) back in 2013 is showing quite a bit of gray these days. ericsbane06 (current main system) specs: Coolermaster Elite 430 case XFX MDA72P7509 AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI ATX mobo AMD Phenom II X4 9500 CPU (overclocked) Ultra U12-40656 Carbon X7 CPU Cooler 8Gig PC6400 DDR2 RAM Antec 450W PSU 150 Gig WD Raptor 10,000 RPM 150 Gig WD Raptor 10,000 RPM 320 Gig WD Caviar 7200 RPM Nvidia GeForce GTS450 Generic SATA DVD/RW It still zips along, but that Gigabyte mobo and 6-core would definitely be a noticeable performance improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Yes although you'll need some DDR3 RAM. Everything else looks transferrable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 (edited) I have a bin full of computer parts and goodies that I need to start getting listed on eBay tomorrow. I need some cash, so it's Eric's Shop Rummage Sale time. Edited April 21, 2016 by V.T. Eric Layton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 Well, it took till June, but Santa delivered a Gigabyte GA890FXA-US5 mobo with Coolit Systems ECO-r120 CPU water cooler on an AMD Phenom X6 processor, plus a really spiffy NZXT fan controller device that I probably won't have any use for. So, I need to get out there some time and see what I can make of this stuff. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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