Ok, so 975X is not compatible with Conroe without BIOS and VRM updates. But I thought I read a thread around here where people were discussing this, but one guys said something to the effect of: "Well, overclockers like us don't need to fill that VRM requirement... (said something else)."
Can...
It's not AM2 that I'm so worried about. It's Intel's Conroe. It's on a whole new process than AMD's 90nm and from the benches that are out now it wipes the floor with AMD.
I'm upgrading from an
A64 s754 3000+
AGP 6800NU
nForce3 mobo
500W Fortron Blue Storm
My parts are
Opteron 165 - $330
7900GT - $330
DFI LanParty NF4 Expert - $160
700W Fortron - $170
Total of $990 for the "upgrade"
I was planning on getting these parts and overclocking them to hell...
Recently I bought an official copy of XP to install over the previous one. I did the upgrade option, and after the installer copies the files to my hard drive, my computer no longer boots.
My drive setup is complicated. Let's just say that my boot drive is my D: drive, not the C: drive...