Lots of talk here recently about thermal pads and what is better etc. I've seen big drops in temp's ditching the thermal pads and just using plain 'ol white HS compound instead. Others claim you'll only see a minor change so... I just bought a Barton 2500+ on a chaintech 7NIF2 board for by...

Hi People, I haven't been around here for a while, but I have a query that I can't seem to find an answer to on the web. I upgraded my kids machine today (was XP1800+) with a new Motherboard and CPU (Albatron MB with XP2600+), and the machine says it is a XP2600 but running at 1921mhz. Now my...

I am building a computer for my neighbor whose son plays Sim 4, Populus and 4 x 4 Screamer, soon to upgrade to newer games once he has the computer to play them. They currently have a 600mhz e-machine, so I will scavenge the floppy drive, CD drive, etc, but want to build an AMD system. I...

Hi I'm thinking of upgrading my T-Bird 1200 on a Gigabyte 7ZX mobo to an Athlon 2500+ on an Abit AN7 motherboard. I currently have a good-quality Antec 400W power supply but it's not the ATX 12V supply with the additional 4-pin 12VDC plug. Do I have to have this on the AN7? If so, is there...

yes thats the difference, bartons have lower clock speeds at their PR ratings but tend to overclock well. the cache does't benefit the xp like the P4 do mostly to the large L1 caches on the XP comared to the tiny ones on the P4.

I've been running slackware for a few years now on a dual PIII 600. It was a screamer when I bought it, but it's getting kinda slow on builds. Built firefox last night--started the build watched "Forbidden Planet" with my wife, and the damned thing was still building when we went...

I am located in Indiana and its summer so its getting warmer here.. its 69c here, usually in the high 70s during the day. I just noticed my CPU temp is 53c. and my ambient is 34c I have an Abit NF7-s v 2.0 mobo with 2x512mb of PC3200 Corsair valuram. Plus an ATI Radeon 8500LE with 128mb of Ram...

Learned scholars, My Athlon 1.2 system can't detect SDRAM memory. system: Athlon1.2, Asus A7 mobo, 64mb Toshiba RAM, 128mb Hynix Ram, Strawberry128mbRAM, Geforce2 MX64mb, Actually before, everything is ok. just that as a hobbyist i tend to help my friends with pc matters and in the course of...

Learned scholars, My AthlonXP 2000 on MSI KT4AV with (VIA KT400A) chipset Mainboard has Speed Complexity. The displayed CPU speed on startup BIOS is 1.25gHz with FSB setting of 100mhz. Actual speed of Athlon XP2000 is 1.67ghz as provided by AMD. Upon changing of FSB settings to 105mhz, speed...

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i have a gigabyte ga7vax with a duron 1 ghz i want to upgrade to a 2700 or a 2800 which is faster for gaming

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I have a athlon 1800 and need a new mobo. what's the best choice? I intend to upgrade processor soon, I am interested in a good controller but I'm out of the loop...can I get a serial ata controller that also works with raid, or are the two exclusive and was that a dumb question? What chipsets...

Learned scholars, My AthlonXP 2000 on MSI KT4AV with (VIA KT400A) chipset Mainboard has Speed Complexity. The displayed CPU speed on startup BIOS is 1.25gHz with FSB setting of 100mhz. Actual speed of Athlon XP2000 is 1.67ghz as provided by AMD. Upon changing of FSB settings to 105mhz, speed...

Hi folks, I have the version 1.1 of the KT7A Raid.....and an XP 2400+ (Thorton) cpu. Is this problematic? I have read that versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 don't really support the XP? I've also can't get a pny 256 mb 133 mhz memory module to be recognized, although the pny web site, says it is compatible...

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Hi folks, I'm setting up a new KT&a Raid board (with a XP2400+ cpu). I tested the mb first with memory, video card, cpu/heatsink fan etc.....all outside the case but plugged into power. My first boot attempt, the fan/heatsink came on for a second or two then powered down automatically. I shut...