From my experience top-drawer air cooling can match water cooling. I'm running a SLK900 with a duct from a case side mounted 92mm fan and I'm getting lower temps than my previous water cooled set up. Air cooling can be noisy but so can water, depends on the fans you use. "Davek"...

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...

So I thought to myself, maybe this is crap, maybe someone is trying to sucker me!! But it kept haunting me for weeks on end, the idea of money rolling into my mail box every day. So what the hell, I invested in six envelopes, six stamps and six dollar coins ( no paper dollar bills here). I...

Hi, I have a rather unique problem with a 2500+ overclock. My system is: Barton 2500+ (AXDA2500DKV4D) - locked :-( Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - v1.4 - 1007 Uber BIOS 2 off sticks of 512MB Crucial PC3200 XMS SATA, IDE, both LANs and IEE1394 enabled Using on-board sound

Hi My system is a7n8x-e deluxe mobo barton 2600+ cpu ( 166fsb ) radeon 9800 pro etc etc I want to put a xp 3200+ cpu in ( or maybe a 2500+ and o/c it to 3200+

I recently built a dual Athlon MP system using this board because the Asus model I wanted was out of stock and I just wanted to share my experiences with it. Of the AMD 760MPX boards, this one has to be the best for enthusiasts. I originally wanted the Asus model because it offered FSB...

Which is better and why?

Have you had a chance to check temps? Maybe the heatsink on your CPU is not mounted correctly and is causing system to fry. Patrick "MrDancer" wrote in message ... Just put together a new system last night, an Asus...

I'm after a new CPU fan since the one I have seems to be failing (knocking noises) as well as the PC crashing at times and reporting that the CPU is at 78 degress in the BIOS (usually after a particularly long 3DS MAX rendering...) Anyway I'm looking through various sites (UK) and there are so...

in terms of everyday normal usage plus the odd bit of video capturing and occasional games how would the above cpu's compare to each other ? obviously the athlon 64 would be the best choice but how much difference is there between the barton and the sempron 64 and also the sempron 64 to the athlon...

my CPU has an FSB of 333 mhz (Athlon 2600+) my board will support FSB of 400 mhz I cant set the FSB to 200 mhz (400 mhz all together) because the CPU is only 333 mhz I am therefore right in assuming i need to change the multiplier with the FSB always at 166 mhz

Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two...

"The Old Man" wrote in message ... Hi all, I purchased an AMD XP2500+ to go with my new Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard. Out of interest, mainly due to a friend informing me that boards with the Nforce2 chipset automatically...

Try ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe revision 2.? I have this board with an XP1800 running at 1.836 and PC 3000 DDR 400 System bus is running about 333 for a 166 FSB I have tried several brands of MoBo's and feel more comfortable with ASUS than any other mfg. luck

case temp is 35DegC. fans are Coolermaster XDream HAC-V81. 2 of them. im looking now at water cooling. my machine is on 24/7 as much as posible running Seti@home. i had to turn it off last night becasue it was hitting 70deg. :( Any ideas on how to fix this? Water cooling the right way to go? "Wes...

Got this error approximatley 1 hour into running Prime95. Does anyone have any suggestons as to what it is caused by? system specs are as follows; CPU(s) Number of CPUs 1 Code Name Barton Specification AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3200+ Family / Model / Stepping 6 A 0

Hey folks, I'm about to buy an Athlon 2500+ 333 512K. I had been debating if I should get the Nforce2 Ultra 400 Chipset (on a DFI NFII Ultra-Al mobo) and PC3200 memory and then overclock it so that the FSB runs at 200 and the CPU at 3200+. But, now I'm hearing about locked processors. What does...

They are posted here if your interested http://www.fileconnect.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1349 Eyman

Okay, I was all sent to buy a Epox MB, carefully researching the alternatives - and low and behold, this darned Asus keeps popping up... I also saw the Soyo Dragon series. I went up on the Asus site and the specs are confusing to say the least! It seams there's 4 versions of the A7N8X - and only...

I'm asking the pro's I'm sure so if anyone might find the time to link to newegg and pick what you would build "today" as a clocking "budget" system, please and thanks... Retail CPU- Mobo - PSU - Ram - The rest I can figure out I think, excuse being so much trouble but it is