Anyone like to offer any opinions here? My 2600+ is running at 45C idle and that doesn't leave a lot of room for overclocking... Looking for a good heatsink and fan that'll keep it well cool, preferably from a UK retailer. Any thoughts? What are most of you using at the moment?...

This with the MSI K7N2 board. Overclockable or not? If so, how do ya do it?-- Michael Zentner

Longish story short - I need to know what type of CPU I've got in my computer, and I don't really know how to go mucking around inside there (e.g. ripping out the fan). I've been told it's a 2700+, but it's showing up as a 2000+ with a 1667 clock speed, FSB set to 133MhZ. The AMD "CPU Information"...

which chip will give the better performance between the Thunderbird 1GHz and the Duron 1.3GHz? I am limited for choice as to what procesor I can get in my motherboard (Abit KT7) and although the best i could hope for would a 1.3GHz Thunderbird, I can't find anywhere that is still selling these. I...

Hi All, I'm planning on getting the MSI Nforce board, with a barton 2500+. What do i need to do / know to overclock this beauty? I'll be running dual sata drives too.... If thats at all relevant! Cheers, Dan

The hard overclock has becomes easy, thanks to Wes Newell. He has linked me to: http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html Now, I've unlocked the 13-13.5-14x on my Gigabyte 7VAXP with 2400+ with AIR COOLING SYSTEM. 174FSB (on KT400!) 13.5x multiplier

As above really - i have an Athlon XP1600+ in there at the moment - but i'd like to know if i can plonk a Barton 2500+ or higher in there. I know the chipset is only a lowly KT266A, but i cant afford a new board right now. Cheers.. Kai

I'd be in Vegas! "James Paraskeva" wrote in message ... to put together a computer (not my money.. i go to uni) and its actually $AU6500 ... what would you do with the money? Case: XaserIII-V2000+

My Crucial 512MB stick went bad. I am contemplating a CL, PC2700 or 3200 RAM module. I am looking at Kingston Hyper-X modules. Anyone have experience with this brand on the GA-7DXR+ from Gigabyte? I run a XP2400+, currently with ZERO overclock stability (crashes right away if I increase the FSB...

Hello! I'm searching for wich PLL I've on my ASUS A7N266 to cfg CPUCool v.7.2.4 to try speed up my system over fsb @140. From bios, I can't start @142... I would try to set this value when winxp started. Thanks for any help.

try taking your ram out and installing them again, and also reset the cmos. "zoeyw" wrote in message ... I have just install a new AMD 2.4+ Ghz with the Asus motherboad. Ram 512 DDR400. 40 gb Maxtor HD and 128MB of v ram. My problem is that...

Just got an abit nf7-s ver 2 up and running with an xp2700 and the cpu temp sits around 50-52 idle with no overclocking compared to 39-40 in the last board I had it in, msi kt4 ultra. I replaced the thermal grease and all seems seated fine. Even with case fan blowing directly on heatsink I get no...

With a name like "TORNADO", what did you expect? ------------------------- Just another Democratic Slave NO more Corporate Government Patrick wrote in message ... Hi again, just got a PC Toys Tornado Case fan and it is TOTALLY...

Ok, I have pretty much worked out that if i buy a Athlon XP 2100+ then i can just install without modding it into my Abit KT7(non a) and it should run, but what I know want to know is how to tell the differemve between a "B" core T/Bred and an "A" core T/bred. I would assume that it is identified...

I have a dual AMD Tyan system - and I reckon the chips and especially the northbridge chipset could be cooler. Unfortunately my case is pretty average for air circulation - its design allows only 2 fans. What fan/heatsink combos are excellent for Amd MP's and chipsets? Thanks.

Hi! Is it just me or are ram prices rising pretty fast now? I've been looking at Kingston HyperX 512MB PC3200 which I'm going to get any day now and it's risen like $25 in the last month or month and a half... (Also it seems that many who carry HyperX don't have 3200, only 2700, 3000 and 3500,...

Hi all, I thought this chip can been overclock to 166 FSB easily. It seems not at my end; I can only get it to run stable (using MadOnion 2003SE for stress run) at 160 FSB. Anything higher than 160 will halt the stress run and drop back to the desktop. BTW, I have decent quality rated PC2700 ram...

Hallo! I tried to get a thoroughbred XP 2200+ (stepping 8) run with my A7V133 rev. 1.05 (nodot). It failed. I was never able to completely boot Win2000, installed previously with thunderbird 1.4GHz. Does anyone know: 1. They say 1.05. (with dot) runs with thoroughbreds (with proper BIOS). IS THAT...

Is the stock timing for Corsair PC 3200 more aggressive than the stock timings of Corsair PC 3500? The 3200 is 6-3-2-2 and the 3500 is 7-3-3-2. Any advise would be appreciated, thanks. -- Asus A7N8X deluxe rev. 2.0 AMD XP 3200+, 400fsb Corsair 512 meg x 2, XMS PC 3500 Radeon 9800 Pro, 256 DDR

I've just swapped out my trusty old PIII setup for an Athlon 2700 XP, running on an Asus A7V8X-X board (http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7v8x-x/overview.htm) with 2 x 512Mb PC3200. What's the optimum speed I can get out of it? (rather than the 2167 the board states). I don't really want...