Hello all, Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about thermal compound awhile back. I have a new question now. After building my new Amd box I find out I have a defective motherboard which I had to send back to newegg.com. My processor and heatsink have been sitting on my bench for...

Was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem with their epox boards. I just got an 8RDA (not +) and xp2100+ which so far is working great after a few minor problems. Now I have another problem, Win2k won't use UDMA for my main hard drive, it will only use PIO mode. My second drive and...

Ok, i have an XP1600 with a volcano 7cu heatsink. I live in a VERY hot climate, so you blue people don't get alarmed cos my case temp is over 15 degrees C. My case temp is around 35-40 degrees C, which is normal here. However, my cpu is running at 50-55 degrees C at idle with vcool!! I have...

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...

noise wrote: Hi, Recently bought a new Epox 8RDA+ rev. 1.1 with the NForce2 ST chipset, Athlon XP 2600+ and some PC3200 RAM (single 256MB for now, will get 2x something really fast later). Everything's working beautifully and I'm able to overclock the FSB to 200 so that RAM and CPU are...

I have this board and an a barton 2500+ Processor. I have tested this chip to 2250mhz stable (prime95 for 24hours, 3dmark 2001SE looping Demo, memtest, etc) However, when I try to run it at 200mhz fsb, even if I drop the multiplier as low as 10.5 (2100mhz) it is completely unstable with errors...

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:07:03 +0800, noise wrote: Hi all, I've just got my first Athlon system and know next to nothing about overclocking them, so I'd appreciate some help. I OC'd a K6-2 then K6-3 system, so I have a basic idea of the concepts, but I've never had an Athlon until a week...

I'm in the process of upgrading my machine. I've started with an Asus A7N8X Deluxe mainboard, but I am now ready for the processor upgrade. I've got an XP 2000 at the moment and I wanted to know if I could get a good speed out of that without upgrading it. Alternatively, I've heard some stuff...

Greetings, I recently purchased a 2500+ Barton. My motherboard would not post so I tried my old AMD processor for verification on a bad motherboard. I was having trouble removing the heat sink so I had someone help me by using a small screwdriver to pull outward on the clip so it...

"Puma" wrote in message ... I put up a new set of screen shot pages all from my battles over Panama. After playing around with FreeFalcon I have gone back to SP3. Nothing wrong with FreeFalcon but I am going to start flying more...

i have an athlon 2800+ and the asus a7n8x deluxe. when i tried, i got from 2.08 to 2.09. what am i doing wrong?!?!

Hi, I`m using a Gigabyte GA-7VA Mobo with the 7va9 bios. I can not alter the multiplier in the Bios settings. Does this mean that iv`e got to get a Unlocking Kit top exploit the extra multipliers from the CPU. If i do unlock this then i definatley want a water cooling setup.. Recommendations...

Playing around with the FSB in the K7S8X mb. FSB settings range from 50-248MHz, so I decided to see how low it would go. Set it to 50 and rebooted. Well, it didn't go down to 50, but it did go down to 80. With 13x multiplier it booted at 1050MHz. And it was still plenty fast enough for me.:-) The...

"Graham" wrote in message ... I have been away from building computers now for about a year, virtually an eternity in computer time. So I haven't kept up with the lastest advances. I am going to put together a system, and...

Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial).

I forgot to ask what are the best vendors to buy OCZ Ram? Thanks. -- Asus A7N8X deluxe rev. 2.0 AMD XP 3200+, 400fsb Corsair XMS PC 3500, 512 meg x 2, dual channel mode ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 256 meg DDR

al wrote: Hi At the moment I run a 1900xp on a soltek mainboard (SL-75DRV5).It's overclocked a little bit as I run the frontsidebus at 136 instead of 133.The fastest cu I can run on this board is the amd 3000 xp.That means a faster frontsidebus 2*166 instead of the 2* 133 or rather...

I have this board and a Barton XP 2500+ The board shipped with the bios 1003. I was able to run the computer at 200mhz fsb x 11 multiplier for a stable XP 3200+. It was able to handle prime95 and 3dmark2001se overnight with no problem. I updated my bios to 1005 and I can now barely keep...

I had a quick (actually quite long now) question about a strange sort of overclock for my Athlon XP 2400+. I'm running it on a Gigabyte 7VAX-1394 motherboard (KT400 chipset) with 512MB of PC2700 memory. What I was hoping to do was change the bus speed from 133 (266) to 166 (333) and drop the...

In article ,=20 says... Hi, =20 I am researchng the parts for a new machine (AMD 2500+ ABT NF7-S) and ha= ve heard good things about TwinMOS. . . . =20 But which sticks should I choose? I intend to try for a 400MHz...