Following my recent post about AMD upgrades, the following components fit the budget. Any comments regarding CPU/Mobo/graphics much appreciated! CPU either AMD (Venice) 90nm Athlon 64bit 3500 32/64Bit CPU S939 or AMD Athlon 64 3200 32/64Bit CPU S939 "Venice" 90nm

I've got an 8RDA+ system that was running fine early today. (It is not overclocked, but I'm thinking overclockers may have some insights too, hence the cross post.) It was left on while people left the room. When they came back a few hours later it was dead. Now it won't even POST. History: ~3...

I'm getting a Rosewill case for a PC that I'm building for a friend and it comes with a 400W PSU. Since he doesn't plan to overclock, he said I can take it if it would be better than what I have now (a 350W Fortron). Here's a link to the case: http://tinyurl.com/6va9p

I have an Asus A7N8X M/B and have never flashed the bios so I'm still limited to a 333FSB. Can i still achieve significant speed increase at this bus speed by playing with the clock speeds?

I now have a AMD 2600 xp .Will I see any appeciable difference if I go with a Barton 3000 XP ?

How do you know if clock is locked ?

Ive been trying to get my cpu up from the standard 1800mhz to a solid 2ghz but it will not overclock anything higher than 1890, ive heard of lots of others with the same board getting 2.2ghz and above on this so why on earth am i having no luck? using the software that comes with the board for...

I am running an Abit AT7max2 with 2600+ Barton, pc3200 512MB DDRAM. BIOS settings show 166FSB with a multipier of 11.5, which I believe would equal 1909 MHz. I run CPUID and here is what it reports: Internal Clock = 1149.18 System Clock = 99.92 System Bus = 199.11 Multiplier = 11.5

All things remaining the same (board & memory), which chip is giving me the best overall performance? An AMD 1700 DLT3CJIUHB 0310XPMW, L2 cache 256, 512 MB DDR SDRAM @ 333DDR, clocked to 2312 MHz. OR an AMD 2600 Barton, L2 cache 512, 512 MB DDR SDRAM @ 400DDR, clocked to 2150 MHz. Does the...

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:50:30 +0100, Franklin wrote: I have set my motherboard/BIOS to exceed the normal the bus frequency by just a little bit. Now I would like to test my memory to see if it is ok under the new settings. Memtest86+ from http://www.memtest.org/ looks like a good...

I'm about to build a new workstation based on an ASUS SK8V and an Opteron 146. I want the system to be quiet. Does anyone have a recomendations for fans that are both quiet and also do a decent job of cooling the CPU. How noisy is the stock cooler? Power supply recommendations would alos...

Franklin wrote: Today I bought a new 1700+ Athlon chip. I expected it to be a Thoroughbred-B (AXDA1700DLTBC) but instead it is a Palomino with a code of AX1700MT3C. The other markings a AG0IA 0224SPDW, 98781970230. The chip is dark green and has 27111 in the corner. When did AMD...

i dug this up from a few months ago http://www.scumperson.eu.org/downloads/amdprocussor.gif it was an xp2400 tbred B anyone else seen these spelling error's :) supposed to be on some bartons too that is infomation from the cpu, not the motherboard btw, as i put another cpu in just to check it

Hi, Some advice if you don't mind?? I have this motherboard and some decent 3200 memory and I have the chance of getting a cheap XP2500. I know that this particular CPU is capable of great things in a 400 meg FSB motherboard, like 3200 or 3400, but what would be realistic out of the A7V333???

specs to start with xp2500 (1.833ghz normal speed) 2 x 512pc3200 twinmos m-tec ram nf7s v2.0 running at default values for bios apart from: 200mhz fsb x 9 (for 1.8ghz) prime95 fails with 1 stick of the above ram in the double dimm slots

Which is better ? TIA

I want to oc my barton 2600+ and was looking to get the thermalright alx heatsink. But im not sure what 80mm fan is best or at least good for oc'ing. I was looking at some cooler masters , but then I found the thermaltake smartfan. Can anyone make some suggestions ? TIA

If I buy a new motherboard with a video card built in how difficult would it be to de-activate that video card so I can use another one or do I even need to de-activate it? I have a ATI - TV tuner card to record video and I want to build a better machine to use it in.

I looked through Google and found some post about problems that are different than what I'm having. This is off topic but a couple of weeks ago when I was reading some post on this group I think someone was talking about Maxtor 160 gig hard drives having problems and tonight my 160 gig drive got...

I need to build a good highspeed system to record TV & Video. I've been getting by with a good dependable 500Mhz AMD system and the ATI-TV tuner card only works with WIN-ME It's done a good job for a lot of years and I don't want to buy a new one when this one works. My question is will a system...