MSI K8N Neo Platinum (Motherboard) Athlon 64 2800+ Newcastle Socket 754 (Retail) 1-Corsair VS512MB400 512 MB DDR 400 Cas 2.5 ATX Case (Need advise on a case) ATI Radeon 9600xt (This is my current video card which I plan to continue using in the new system.) I'm considering these parts to upgrade...

Here's what started the whole thing. My invoice from the guy who put my system together lists the processor as follows: AMD ATHLON XP 2600CPU (2.13 GHZ) You can understand my confusion and rising frustration to find that the Ghz rating is not accurate. Through the gracious help of individuals...

Yes it sounds like a newbie question, anyway... Which is beter for performance, a single hard drive of say, 160 GB or two 80 gig drives in a RAID 0 config? Going to get a SATA II hard drive (want to test the nF4 hack) and I see a 160 gig drive is about $20 cheaper than two 80G drives. Assuming a...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16247 Anyone know a link where you can buy these ? rms

http://www.dailytech.com/Dodecacore+The+Megahertz+Race+is+Now+Officially+the+Multicore+Race/article11531.htm Hardware Dodeca-co The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi- core Race AMD engineers reveal details about the company's upcoming 45nm processor roadmap, including plans for...

Hi all, I'm very confused as to which Athlon XP 2400+ my Asus A7V333 (PCB rev 1.1) can handle. Looking at the Asus site, I can only have the (Model 8?) Thoroughbred, as the Thornton is for the PCB rev 2.0 version A7V333 only. But I heard whisperings that it *could* actually take the Thornton but...

"Hibes" wrote in message ... I just bought my first AMD cpu, the Athlon 64, and wanted to make sure all the hardware in this new computer is powering up first before sticking a cpu fan on it. I'm not overclocking or anything. But...

Sick and Tired about the stupid False naming of the athlon xp chips I got a amd xp 3000 and expected at least the same performace as I get from my p4 3000. No way Hozay, the pentium eats amd for breakfast Im taking this chip back to the shop together with this mobo and asking for money back!!

Am in the UK. On 21st June I posted here that I wanted to get a bargain 250 GB Samsung hard drive. I asked if I should get SATA or PATA for my oldish system Via SV266A mobo with Duron 1800 cpu and 768MB SD-RAM. I have many medium sized PATA drives and do not need another one to leave on...

.... on Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895 I'm running two Opteron 252's on my K8WE S2895. Stock HS & coolers had following temps and changing today to Zalman CNPS-9500s made only about 1 deg. C difference: 2D CPU1 55C

I have probably asked this question sometime here in the last few days it will be burried amongst the threads now so sorry if i am duplicating a question (im sure that happens alot on usenet) But can mobile Athlon XP's with an unlocked multiplier be used on a standard socket A board? and with a...

This is interesting http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597 -- Duck Tape Is Alot Like Star Wars. It Has Both A Dark Side And A Light Side.

Hi, Once every few years I dig into things to build me a new PC for daily work. What I need now is the power to work on hi-res audio (94KHz/32bit) and 8 megapixel RAW images. But most of the time I'm not a power user, doing writing, webmastering, etc. So what I'd like is a silent, energy efficient...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/ What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho? rms

I'm new to this sort of thing, so please excuse me for asking. I'm just about to buy and Athlon 64 3800+ machine and I wanted to know if there is any benefit in overclocking it from the moment I get it or not. As far as i understand, overclocking is liable to reduce the life of the CPU and/or...

Radio Shack used to sell a cheap kit for $15-20, as did edmund scientific. Try searching on strobelight or strobe light. rms

g'day all i just upgraded the family computer to: MSI k8n neo4 platinum 3200 venice a gig of corsair standard 3200 ram pci-e 6600gt. i had wondered as i purchased the parts whether the psu in the old case (a 300w codegen el cheapo, only 17A on the +12V) would actually run this combo, and well,...

After we supported them and kept them alive, they have the balls to charge us so much for the X2?! WTF? I am NOT paying over $700 for that 4400+...

I run into a lot of people that hate AMD for whatever reason, most because AMD did them wrong years ago with a k6 or something silly.. Now the thing that really gets me is why doesn't AMD become a marketting firm? I mean I never see any AMD advertisements anywhere, but everyone knows the...

I tried copper heatsinks - which all performed worse than similar sized (s/a) Aluminium sinks on CPU, VPU and NB. The worst case was that of my Radeon 9700 Pro, which would slow to ludicrously low frame-rates - even with an 80mm, 40CFM fan on it. Indeed it became untouchably hot - so I took it off...