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Reviews (17)
May 03, 2011
Excellent value, reliable, easy yet useful overclock, good mbd support.
eBay wrote:
- Why you bought it
I was asked by a courier driver if I could help repair his wife's PC
(1-core 2GHz Athlon, MSI MS-7184 mbd with onboard VGA, 768MB DDR266,
160GB IDE, 300W PSU, XP Home). The disk was utterly mangled by viri.
My recommendation was it would be cheaper/better to replace the mbd,
CPU & RAM entirely (and switch to XP Pro in the process), which, with a
budget of 85 UKP, I was able to achieve with moderate effort re parts
hunting on eBay (the upgrade rationale was to give a good speedup while
at the same time switching to XP Pro to provide better security
functionality, enhanced with the use of Autopatcher, AVG and ZoneAlarm).
The 5000+ was the CPU I bought, a significant upgrade over the old
single-core 2GHz Athlon the PC had.
- What you like most about it
Reliable, stable, supported even with an older BIOS (which made
choosing a mbd easier), and easy to overclock by a moderate degree.
The budget was only sufficient to obtain generic RAM (2 x 1GB DDR2/800)
but even then the CPU ran just fine at 2.815GHz (vs. stock 2.6), giving
the same speed as a 5600+ at less cost. With a more sophisticated mbd &
better RAM, I'm sure it'd oc much higher, to 6000+ levels possibly. I
replaced the older cooler with a better AMD cooler which came from an
original 6000+, something I wasn't using.
- What you dislike about it
Nothing to dislike. It's a good chip, especially given how much more
expensive an original 6000+ would be. Yes one can obtain faster CPUs
for not a lot more (eg. Athlon II X2 250 3GHz), but the budget was
fixed in this case so that wasn't an option.
- Whether or not you would buy the product again
Certainly, if I'm in the same position again. It's surprising what one
can do for someone by way of simple but significant upgrades. I was able
to find XP Pro with COA for 15 and a mbd for 26 total (ASUS M2N68-AM
Plus with onboard VGA). The final config (using the orig disk & PSU) was
typically between 2X and 3X faster than the old setup. Pretty good for
an 85 quid spend. 8)
Ian.
May 03, 2011
Two of these would be a decent upgrade for a VW320 system.
eBay wrote:
- Why you bought it
I have a number of SGI Visual Workstation 320 systems I'd like to
upgrade prior to selling them off. Atm they are all single or dual
PIII/500, which is a bit weak. I plan on changing them all to at
least dual PIII/800 or 850.
- What you like most about it
Assuming the upgrades work, should be sufficient to make the VW320s
pretty reasonable as a general use system, even if they're limited
to using Win2K at best.
- What you dislike about it
Can't comment on this atm.
- Whether or not you would buy the product again
As an upgrade for a VW320, sure, but only if one can get two of them
for a dual-CPU config.
Ian.
Dec 22, 2009
Revolution 7.1 - not just for PCs! 8-)
1 of 1 found this helpful This card is well known as an excellent solution for audio with PCs/Macs.
Less well known is that it is also the main card one should use for adding
audio to an SGI (Silicon Graphics) Fuel workstation, or any other O3K-class
SGI, ie. Tezro, Origin3xx, Origin3xxx, Onyx3xx and Onyx3xxx.
The quality of the Revolution 7.1 is definitely very good. For PC/Mac users,
there are of course numerous newer products available, but why bother? If it
works, don't fix it!
Ian.