How far is it possible to overclock my processor and what Bios settings would I need to set it at to keep it stable. MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR Motherboard Athlon XP 2800+ CPU with a 3GHZ Cooler (inside a Midi Tower Case with extra side panel fan) 2 X PC3200 256MB (Final Total 512MB)

"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" wrote Seems I neglected to remove the thin plastic film from the bottom of the heat sink before I installed it.. Duh!!! Peeled it off, greased up the CPU slug again and bolted it back on.. CPU down to 32C at idle and hit a whopping 42C playing Halo. ...

Hi, I have overclocked my cpu from 1800MHz to 2340MHz (9x260MHz). While encoding a video the temperature goes up to 61°C. When idle it is around 45°C. My question is if the 61°C is to high for the CPU??? I'm using a Zalman 7700 AlCu Cooler with goes around 1700RPM when the cpu is working with...

Should I expect different overclocking abilities going from Win2K pro to Win XP?

hello all, I've just bought a Thermal Take Silent Tower cooler to find out that it does not cover my AMD cpu completely. Around 2 mm stays outside the base. I have a MSI K8N SLI main board, and comparing the pictures I can see that this board has the raised part of the cpu socket next to the...

AMD Turion mobile CPu any info on it ?? If i upgrade to a 64Bit cpu i think i would go with a Turion. I would ne a board that supports it and make sure the chip actally fits a destop mobo as well :p So thats why i need the info. Did a google but not alot of info. I have been looking for some...

I wanted to know if 4Ghz overclocked is good from 3.2Ghz? I wanted to OC atleast a gig from the original, but computer won't even boot if I tried. Does anyone have the same motherboard and CPU? How much were you able to OC? ---------- ASUS P5AD2 Premium P4 540 3.2Ghz @ 4Ghz, 1MB L2 Cache, /w HT

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I have a problem with two hd Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160gb ata/133 in raid 0 configuration. I have an Asus P4C800-E De luxe motherboard with the Promise PDC20378 controller. All is gone ok for six months then, last evening at the boot I had a message that told me that one of the two disks was off...

I have an ond system ABIT BH1 with a 566 OCed to 850 so I'm thinking its time to upgrade. Quick question, Was wondering if you can overclock the ASUS P4P800VM motherboard? THanks, Greg

Im not saying it is right, but lets say you had bought one of those expensive warranties from a retailer. Now two years later you wanted to cook you machine and get a new one. Is it possible, and how would you do it? Just hypothetical, not going to do it.

Hello, I'm running a pair of 2.4GHz (533 FSB) Xeons in a X5DAE board quite happily. I can get my hands on a pair of used 3.2GHz (800MHz FSB, 1MB L2) processors for next to nothing - I wonder if it's worth it though. I should be able to plug the CPUs in, but if the new ones are locked to a 4x...

Hi all, I have a p4 2.4Gh, it will be overcloked to 2.7 soon, all the software that i have to monitor cpu temp doesn´t seem to work well, can anyone tell what´s the best software to monitor cpu temp, thanks in advance.

Hi, I own Abit BD7II-RAID motherboard, Pentium 4 3,06GHz and 1024MB PC2100 DDR RAM running on standard 266MHz. I have read that i can simply overclock my RAM to 356 MHz (i mean from 133 to 178MHz). I have two modules of Kingston Vaule Ram PC2100, every one 512MB. When i want to overclock the ram...

Hi have have tought upgrading from: P4 2.4GHz 1 x 512 DDR 333MHz (pc2700) GA-8IPE1000 Rev1.0 5PCI AGP8X Dual Channel DDR400+ (4DDR Slots) to AMD64 3000+ 2GHz (I'ma gonna overclock it) 2 x 256MB Samsung 400MHz (PC3200) 2 time to benecite of the Dual

hi all, i purchased a gateway 310s about a years ago and was wondering if there is any way of overclocking them. the computer has an intel thrasher mother board, celeron 28. ghz processor. there looks to be no way of changing the fsb setting in the intel bios. am i correct that they cannot be...

New to this o/c'ing life style, built my first rig couple of weeks ago, and took my first steps at oveclocking mainy used ati tool for the gfx and "easytuner" for the cpu Anyone know of any good upto date o/c'ing beginners guides. Plus what do think of my attempts below Thanks

I've been hear and seeing alot of folks putting amd mobile processors in their desktop systems. Common sense tells me that its cause they run cooler and use less power then their stationary counterparts. But are there any other advantages to this method. Thanks -- "Blu-Ray" 2600+Sempron (O/C...

I've had it with the noise of my Thermaltake Volcano - I'm going to pick up one of these: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-109-120&depa=0 Can anyone recommend a high-flow but relatively quiet 80mm fan to go with it? TIA, Kendt

Hi, I am looking to squeeze the last possible performance out of my system by replacing the motherboard. I am tryig to delay when i have to replace most of my main components. My current motherboard is an ABit KR7A-RAID motherboard. I have an Athon XP 2600+ proceesor. I have an AGP 8x Geforce...