Bought a refurb AOpen AK86-L -- thought I'd try it to save a few dollars. Also got a new AMD 64 3000+ (retail boxed). I've come to the conclusion that the mobo (when new) should have came with the heatsink retention bracket. Where can I get one? I know I know... the risk you take with OEM and...

Im currently a XP2500 user (oc'd to a 3200+) MSI KT600 Delta board with Corsair Value Select PC3200 DDR - cas 2.5. and a 9800 Pro I am looking to get a Athlon 64 (FX or vanilla) and board, should I get a FX53 or is is a gross waste of money, also what m/b should i get? I would like the board to...

Hi, I'm using an Athlon 64 3000+ with the original boxed cooler. At 100% cpu time, asus probe tells me the temp is 50 Celcius... What's your's ? Bye, Peter

What should I expect to see as far as performance increases if I go from a 3200+ barton core chip on an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe. To a AMD 64 2800+ on a K8N Neo Platinum? Would it be worth it? or should I wait untill I can afford a faster proc? Thanks Bitsbucket --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus...

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I know I'm about 3 years behind the technology, but I'm currently upgrading my home-built system. It currently has a DFI AK74-EC (KT133 based) motherboard, and an AMD Duron 750. I bought an AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz (200 FSB) processor and after installing it, only see it showing 500 MHz in BIOS...

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-444&depa=1 What caught my eye was the 1meg l2 cache and no heat spreader... If this is a pin for pin match to a 754 processor, it may be a real buy because of the larger cache. --

Is AMD planning on coming out w/any 3 Ghz socket A CPU's? Or has AMD given up on further development in socket A CPU's? -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

I'm needing to upgrade several computers, all for home/school/graphics/gaming. No major number crunching, so I'm avoiding the Intel money trap. Can someone recommend the AMD equivelant to a 2.4-2.7Ghz speed (AMD throws me off with their numbering system)? Also, I need a few motherboard...

Is this stuff really worth buying? -- Mark MCSA, CNA, A+, Net+, iNet+, Server+

Hi I have an XP2500+ made bought April 2003 and a motherboard GA-7VA. My graphics card is a Radeon 9600 xt and I have 2 x 256 transcend DDR SDRAM PC2700 + 1 generic 512 DDR SDRAM PC2700 . The pc has plenty of fans (4) and I'd like to see can I push the speed, a little. I have Gigabyte's EasyTune...

Please excuse any stupidity on my part that may become apparent during this message, but I'm a novice and confused! I've read newsgroups and overclocking sites, but I still can't work out what I'm doing wrong. I have a newly acquired XP 2800+ and Abit NF7-S board. As I have PC3200 RAM, I'm trying...

I am looking to purchase the amd Palomino 2100 at a reasonable price. Please email with prices.

Hello all, I have an AMD64 FX-53 and with the stock fan I was average 52c. I switched to a Tt Venus 12 copper heatsink/fan and see it now idle around 45c. I've seen benchmarks of this same CPU with other air cooling systems and these guys are reaching in the 30's when idle. Is there...

Can anyone point me to a good reference spot for O/C my NF7 with XP2600+ and 1.5gig PC3200 DDR? Thanks -- Replace to reply Bolts 03/04 Stanley Cup Champs Arsenal 03/04 Unbeaten Rays 03/04 not last in AL East

I have an unlocked 2800+ barton on an NF7S v. 2 , with 500mb dual channel Kingston stix(3200), I have an NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4200 with AGP8x card, 450 watts of power an ultra fan and heatsink, rated to 3200. I am running this with no modifications but would like to do some overclocking....

I am planning on building a new gaming system, and I am wondering which processor and motherboard combination would be the best for high-end gaming and overclocking. I'm considering a Pentium 4 2.6A Prescott with a Gigabyte motherboard using the i848P chipset. My other option is an Athlon 64...

hi, i have a amd 64 3000+ on a abit kv8-max3 mb everything works just fine, only my temp is around the 60C (regular procesor cooler) non active everything in a thermaltake wingo v7000 gaming tower is this tem normal?????

Hi all, i'm having a "problem", and want need some advise! :) I've got an ASUS Mainboard A7N8X-X and an AMD 2200+, ok? If i overclock the CPU and put the FSB at 166 and the multiplier at 11.5, the bios report a 1916mhz procesor(or 19xx). The CPU works great, without any sign of problem, crash,...

Still trying to successfully raise the FSB from 166 to 200 on an Abit NF7-S board. Using a vcore of 1.825 I seem to be very nearly there. However, at the point of loading XP it all grinds to a halt with an error message saying that the file "c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" is corrupt. Which it...