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Done. Sold. Bought! Looking forward to installing it tomorrow. :D

Ooh yeah. The price has just dropped. It was £135 earlier!

GAH! :( I only got a promo email this morning, and it's expired already!

Apologies for hijacking this thread a bit, but I have a near identical setup (I have an Opteron 180 and 4Gb RAM) and was going to do pretty much the same upgrade with a plan to do a proper upgrade maybe next year. I just noticed, however, the Asus GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP 768MB on offer...

Hehe, no. That one is properly broken now! :D I've got the stock one fitted for now with a bit of Arctic Silver, but I'll replace it later at some point. I'm just grateful that it still runs! :)

No new motherboard was needed in the end -- I managed to get the cooler off with a hacksaw and some bloody knuckles! The most extreme PC maintenance I've ever done -- hopefully something I won't have to to again! :)

I managed to get it off with a hacksaw in the end. I thought the motherboard wouldn't survive, but it turns out that she's a sturdy old battle axe. I seem to have spent the entire weekend trying to get the thing back to life again! Still, she's now sporting a rather fetching Opteron 180 @...

Yes, the mobo is out of the case. :) I went out and bought a pair of needle nose pliers to try to grab the back bit while unscrewing but can't get a good enough grip. I thought about sawing it off, but there isn't much clearance between the bolt and all the other important lumpy bits on...

That's what I paid for it back in 2005. :rolleyes:

Thanks to a dodgy Akasa Evo 33 which won't come off, I'm going to have to make an insurance claim to get me up and running again. :( I currently have: Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe (£93.50 + VAT) Athlon 4000+ (£280.81 +VAT) 2Gb DDR RAM Obviously, I'm going to have to, at the very least, replace...

Anyone else had a problem removing a Akasa Evo 33 cooler? I was about to upgrade my 939 4000+ to a Opteron 180 this morning but ran into a problem getting the cooler off. It's screwed into it's own back plate, but one of the screws doesn't unscrew -- just keeps turning and turning! I'm...

Thanks for your help guys. I decided to get a 180 and it arrived yesterday. I'll drop it in at the weekend and see how it runs! :)

At stock, possibly, but my 64 4000+ is overclocked... and the 180 could easily overclock to match my 4000+'s single overlocked core. :)

I was thinking the 180 because it's around £50 cheaper. Yes, you're right, the 939 is a dead tech, but I was thinking that I'd be able to make this last another couple of years with a CPU upgrade (Vista doesn't seem to play nice with a single core CPU) and a graphics card later in the year when...

I'm about to squeeze my 939 setup for the last time by upgrading my 64 4000+ to either an Opteron 180 or 185. At the moment I'm thinking 180 and overclock it to 2.6Ghz -- or should I get the 185 which is 2.6Ghz at stock and maybe try to OC that? Cheers t.

I got around to overlocking the 4000+ to 2.6Ghz the other night, and can't say it makes much of a noticable difference... if anything. The biggest problems are when I've got iTunes, the processor hog, running... and my reduced FPS in Vista. Looks like a new motherboard/cpu/memory combo is in...

In theory it's a still a great set-up, but I'm now getting lousy frame rates on WoW and HL2 with Vista. Really worried about Bioshock when that arrives this week! I'm not overclocking it, but it's got an Akasa Evo33 cooler fitted so there's definitely no reason why I couldn't. Might have to...

Just set a machine up with the M2N-Sli Deluxe and X2 6000+ myself and have been very impressed. A nice nippy PC, and still good value if you don't intend to overclock.

I currently have an Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe mobo, an AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 2Gb of standard Crucial DDR RAM and a 7800GTX. I've just upgraded to Vista after being impressed with it on my girlfriend's new machine (X2 6000+) and it runs like a slug when I try to do more than one thing at a time (e.g...

I currently have a 939 Athlon 64 4000+ (single core) and have just upgraded to Vista where, it seems, dual core is definitely needed! Is it worth upgrading to a X2 4200+ or wait and upgrade motherboard/memory/CPU later? Would I see any improvements -- or might it be slower?! Too bad they...