My local dealer says he has some XP2600+ Barton core chips, I thought the 2600s were Thoroughbreds! Is there a Barton core 2600 and if so how can I tell it from a Thoroughbred visually? The box shows this chip has 512 Kb L2 cache BTW. Stuart

My cpu was running hot - 65deg C with full load. I removed the retail heat sink and put a copper heartsink on. cpu temp read 128deg c on the bios and in windows, but no obvious overheating . I removed the heat sink and the thermal grease was well placed. I replaced the heat sink and again am...

Hi folks, When looking for a Processor, I found that AMD offers a 3 year warantee on 3200/400 and 3000/333 but not the 3000/400. The 3000/400 is also not sold in a retail box, and dealers seem to give ~ 30 day warantee for them. Any clues ? Experience with 3000/400 ? Dos, donts ? Thanks

ive been playin with my setting and got a score of 8974 with radeon 9500 AGPx4 (not oc) xp1700 @ 1.8GHz 12.5x 146fsb 512mb pc2100 ive never done this test before and need some opinions!! Cheers

I asked this before in this ng but I didn't really get a satisfactory answer. I have a soltek sl75-mrn-l and a an athlon 2500+ (barton), I am using a volcano 9 cooler. Using the monitor that came with the board I get this about the temps, this is at standard clock speed. cpu die: reads the temp...

I have just overclocked my new XP 2500 Barton CPU (PIB) at 3200Hz on an Asus A7N8X V2 Del MB with CPU voltage as set for 2500, my Crucial PC3200 memory set to 100%, agp set to 66MHz and memory voltage left at 2.6V at with timings 2.5/3/3/7. My pc is running very fast and stable but my cpu temp...

Hi everyone... Anybody got it working? I've placed the Dawn OpenGL wrapper and the cat 3.6 OpenGL driver in the bin directory... it works (there are no errors), but you seem not to get any textures. Any ideas? Just wondering what Dawns little sister looks like :-)

Is there really a big difference? I was looking at an MSI KT4VL or an MSI K7N2 Delta-L and was wondering if it really makes that big of difference between each board with a different chipset. I'm running WinXP, AMD 2400+, 512Mb DDR in an ASUS A7V266E mob and looking to upgrade or side-grade so I...

I wonder is there solution for this problem: System: MBO: Gigabyte 7DXR bios f10a CPU: AMT AthlonXP 1800+ at 1533MHz AGP: Sapphire Radeon 9000 VIVO OS: WindowsXP Pro SP1 Memory: DIMM1 PC-2100, 512 MB, 184 pins, DDR RAM, 266 MHz, M.tec TTD7608F8E75B

Hi, I'm wanting to do a nice cheap upgrade for my computer, namely upgrade the CPU.. I currently have an Abit KT7A V1.0(but what's important is the 133A Via chipset..) with a Thunderbird 800 (o/c 1Gig) and would like to replace the cpu for an Athlon XP.. but I have a few questions I would like...

Hi, I'm wanting to do a nice cheap upgrade for my computer, namely upgrade the CPU.. I currently have an Abit KT7A V1.0(but what's important is the 133A Via chipset..) with a Thunderbird 800 (o/c 1Gig) and would like to replace the cpu for an Athlon XP.. but I have a few questions I would like...

God help us all..... If your using a 4 pin fan (4 pin plug, 2 wires) then you can simply swap the wires around to give the fan either 7v or 5v to make it run slower. You first need to know what the color code of the wires are. A standard 4 pin Molex connector from a power supply has 4 wires...

Hi, I recently built a new system using an abit KV7 KT600 mobo and an XP2200+ (thoro). With the 2200+, WinXP often BSODs on boot, or if not, falls over at the first bit of stress on the processor, wheras if I substitute an XP1800+ (palomino) I simply cannot get the system to crash, even using...

Now that several motherboard manufacturers are making motherboards for the AMD64 and the CPU's seem to be available, what HSF's are available? I see the CPU's come with a heat spreader a la the K6. The pictures I see show the socket seemingly without clip lugs and some sort of plastic frame...

Curious to see how the Hammer core scales? Head over to http://www.aces hardware.com/ to see the review and benchmark results for a Prometia phase-change (refrigeration) cooled Athlon FX-51 system overclocked to 2.8Ghz. The only thing holding the processor back from going faster was the maximum...

I wonder is there solution for this problem: System: MBO: Gigabyte 7DXR bios 10a

Any opinions on this board? I can't believe the price. I don't usually go cheap but how bad can it be?

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Postal Lottery: Turn $6 into $60,000 in 90 days, GUARANTEED I found this in a news group and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now and came across a message just like this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with...

I cant believe u dickheads r still exchanging mobile!!!!!! numbers.Anyone of u read the latest HL2 benchmark.........OK........Got a news 4 u ....nVidia (5600,5800,5900 Ultra)been kicked in the ass so bad .five days after the test they still jumping around... So called 5900Ultra :-))) cant even...