My new Barton Athlon XP 2500+ came with a heatsink with a pad of phase-change material on it. I need to replace the the material, so I plan to use Arctic Silver 3. The pad of material is maybe a half millimeter thick. If I use a 0.005" thin layer of AS3, will the difference in thickness cause...

hi there, i've read the thermal paste installation instructions on the AS3 web site, it's quite detailed and helpful, but i'm quite confused about the cleaning of the cpu core/ceramic bit (cleaning the old heatsink doesnt apply to me, as i'm replacing my stock AMD HSF with the thermalright...

Hi, I´m buying new p4 3,0GHz 800MHz BUS with Asus P4C800 mobo and I was wondering how far can i oc with watercooling? Is this the right choice cpu/mobo for oc or is there anything better? And there are no unlocked p4-s? Right? Thx

Hi Does anybody know any site where I can learn the basics of overclocking.The difference by changin the multiplier and rise the fsb as an exemple.In short terms,how it works. regards al

Sorry if this has already been discussed... but I have an Asus A7V8X motherboard with an Athlon XP 1900+ cpu. In the BIOS, I am able to change the multiplier from it's normal 12 to anything else, like 13.... so I assume this is an unlocked cpu. Cool. But, when I check on the newly-changed mhz...

I have an 120G disk and i want add an other 120g for striping. Can I make the striping set without lossing my data? PS= MOBO is P4P800 Thanks!

Can anyone please tell me how easy it is to open the external casing on a slot 1 cartridge? Thanks, Dan.

Hi, what are the U.K equilivalent of these things please? Wayne ][

"Pieter" wrote in message ... When I try to boot up my computer, the screen just goes blank and I don't hear any beep. The Led's are on and the fans are turning though. Could it be that my motherboard is dead? Or...

Hi, I'm considering buying a P4 2.4c for my P4B533. I've been using the dipswitch trick to oc my P4 1.8 to 2.6 and keep the 3:4 multiplier to run the ram at ~400Mhz. With the 2.4c, in order to overclock to about 3Ghz (usually within the chip's capabilities) I'd have to run the FSB at 250Mhz (and...

I have a Watercooled system with 1/2" lines, and am looking for an electronic flowmeter, preferably one that can be attached to a motherboard fan header. If anyone knows where I can find one, please let me know. (The one made by Innovatec is WAY too small, it has less than 5/16" openings) Thanks...

Is this a worthwhile idea to use something like Arctic Alumina adhesive or should I just use the supplied tape? Is there something better for the job than Arctic alumina adhesive? TIA tHatDudeUK

btw i am on the latest BIOS but have tried the prievious 4 releases as well...no change "steve" wrote in message ... My system is as follows: MSI K7N2 (not delta, not L, just plain old K7N2) XP 2600+ (333 version) Matched...

I'm trying to eliminate as much noise from my PC as possible (while still having it turned on - for all you pedants that were going to suggest turning it off! ;). Is the fan on the northbridge likely to generate much noise...I'm thinking of replacing it with a larger heatsink but am having...

Your temps will show a tad higher, before XP, Win2K, or NT load. These OS's have CPU throttling, built in, that shaves about 10C off your temps at idle. There used to be a program, a few years back called CPIIdle, that did the same thing in Win9x. My temps show approx. 10C higher, when viewing in...

I have a Dell SC600 system, which does not allow overclocking. I also have a 2.0 Celeron, which runs 3.0 ghz (150 mhz FSB) comfortably at default voltage (on a different motherboard, of course). I have seen hints that the a P4 cpu can be modded in order to make the motherboard think it should be...

Dell get it out of your PC NOW, it will prob explode :) On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:35:35 GMT, Lee wrote: All you can do is try and see mate 8) On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:23:06 +0100, "Faquin Kant" had the will to write:

Has anyone tried the 100 MHz FSB option with this old board? What is the PCI bus set to ? I'v read that the ABIT LX6 (which also has a 100 MHz setting on an LX440 chipset) seems to run the PCI bus at 33 MHz, but just in case, I wouldn't want to fry anything if the PCI bus is set to 50 MHz on the...

I thought that I would make the public aware of some recent problems I had with a brand new motherboard, so if your thinkin of buying beware...... I purchased the ASUS P4P8X 865P (supposedly new and will work with P4 800fsb) If you buy this board for some unknown reason, read the manual and provide...

I need a good overclocable mobo for a spare celeron 700 mhz cpu. I would like to use it as a file server. or maybe a file/i-net server. TIA