{"id":70,"date":"2014-05-01T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.catalystlogic.com.au\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:44:18","slug":"taming-the-clawhammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Taming the ClawHammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD's Clawhammer AKA the Athlon 64 was the CPU architecture to have in the early 2000's. I still had mine won from Epics Make Something Unreal Competition<\/a>\u00a0where our Star Wars themed Total Conversion\u00a0Mod, UT 2004 Troopers <\/a>landed\u00a0a runner up place.<\/p>\n

Great thing about old hardware, I landed a great Gigabyte Neocooler 8 Pro<\/a> Cooler for the long forgotten Socket 754 for $5.50. The guys down at EYO <\/a>must have had sitting on a shelf or the best part of a decade. As of the\u00a0date of this post they even had a few more in stock.<\/p>\n

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Lord Vader's LED lightsaber illuminating the installation of the CPU Cooler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The extra long 7800GS, one of the last hi-end cards made for AGP, powered up fine, though I do remember I overclocked her to squeeze a bit more juice out of her, so she may well be in her last legs.<\/p>\n

A few quirks came to light with the old girl. I always thought my days of loading Disk Driver prior to a windows install were long behind me. Not the case with the\u00a0Gigabyte GA-K8NPro<\/a>\u00a0in windows 7. After trying one before, my second attempt of The 64 Bit Silicon Image \u00a0Drivers managed to get a drive appearing in the Windows & installation. Zip filenames was\u00a03x12_x64_w7_1.2.15.3_logo.zip <\/a>for those coming here looking for them.<\/p>\n

Next, once the OS was installed, there were constant lockups and freezes that I remember plagued her towards the end of her role as my primary PC. I always chalked it up to Windows rot, though the fresh Win 7 install was showing the same symptoms.<\/p>\n

Turned out that disabling the onboard RAID on the Gigabyte GA-K8NPro<\/a>\u00a0seemed to be the cause. Every time I left the SATA Raid enabled, and just did not set up a array, as opposed to disabling the RAID (setting to BASE in BIOS), the lockup issues disappeared. The old Silicon Image RAID under the N-Force 150 chipset seemed to be much content in RAID mode, even if powering a single drive.<\/p>\n

This beast of yesteryear will now live of at a relatives place until being replaced by something an order of magnitude faster likely at a cost lower than what i payed for the Video card alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMD's Clawhammer AKA the Athlon 64 was the CPU architecture to have in the early 2000's. I still had mine won from Epics Make Something Unreal Competition\u00a0where our Star Wars themed Total Conversion\u00a0Mod, UT 2004 Troopers landed\u00a0a runner up place. Great thing about old hardware, I landed a great Gigabyte Neocooler 8 Pro Cooler for ...continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}