I am doing some heat calculations: How many watts (power not heat!) does my Athlon 2400+ Thoroughbred require / use at standard clock + volt settings? I think I read 60 watts somewhere, but I don't recall where. I also know this info is on the AMD website somewhere, but I haven't time to look...

What is better an AMD Athlon or AMD Barton CPU ??

Are Heat Sink fans for socket 754 AMD CPU's compatable with the socket 939 Motherboards? I would like to use a quiet Zalman fan (CNPS7000A-Cu) with one of the new Athlon 64s for socket 939 - but I can not confirm compatability.

After reading thousands of posts here and elsewhere regarding overclocking amd cpus, it seems to me that most overclockers (and pc builder/enthusiasts) are too concerned about heat - or at least their concerns about particular heat ranges are off the mark. Mind you, I'm by no means an expert, but...

Dodgy scenario: I need to test a motherboard to POST with an Athlon 64 3000 venice CPU but I don't as yet have a heatsink/fan. So I was wondering if I could get away with a few secs of power without the heatsink/fan while I see if the motherboard POSTS. I once fried an Athlon 1.0ghz by running it...

Learned scholars, My AthlonXP 2000 on MSI KT4AV with (VIA KT400A) chipset Mainboard has Speed Complexity. The displayed CPU speed on startup BIOS is 1.25gHz with FSB setting of 100mhz. Actual speed of Athlon XP2000 is 1.67ghz as provided by AMD. Upon changing of FSB settings to 105mhz, speed...

system in sig. I have been running this cpu at 220 since I got it (a year ago?), but I never played with the voltages, and I didn't know whether it was the cpu or memory or what that was limiting it (I couldn't go over 223 or so). For some reason I started playing with voltages and nvidia system...

My thesis, which will sound nutty, is the following: The use of my Vantec Fan Controller to turn down the speed of my two intake 80mm case fans causes my floppy drive to fail. I will defend this below but now for the setup, pathology, and history. Setup: I recently installed a Vantec Silver...

I'm looking for feedback on the idea of attaching a 80mm fan onto the original HSF (Ajigo MF035-032) that came with my Athlon 2500 in order to get the full load temp down from 72C to around 60C. The original 60mm fan is rated at only 18.5CFM, which seems quite low. I could stick on a...

Okay, so my A64 3000+ system occasionally emits this sound as if a wire is touching a spinning. After a little bit of makig it, it stops. I'm really not sure what's up with that, but I'm fairly sure that no wires are actually in any fans. So anyway, when it began to make this sound today, I was...

Many computer users perform their own hardware upgrades, and a distressing number of these result in insufficient damage to the system. Destroying your own computer is every user's right and is the pattern of behaviour expected by the manufacturers and, especially, repair personnel, whose...

Hi, I just ordered a replacement for my Dad's burned up 2800 AMD Athlon XP (fan and heatsink fell off) with a new one. He insistes that his previous CPU said "2.75 or 2.8Ghz" in the POST when he booted his PC but the specs on the one I ordered says it's a 2.08Ghz CPU. Are there different speeds...

Hi! I got a Mitac Clone MiNote 7321 Notebook from IPC Archtec running a AthlonM 1200 MHz Processor. I worked through the AMD Technical Specification Docs and the...

I have a XP1900 which I believe runs at 1.6Ghz, I have now also a XP2400 which runs at 2.0Ghz. Am I right in assuming the 2400 is a worthy upgrade to the 1900 and the Palomino/Throughbred issue is confusing also. Which chip is which. I know the XP2400 has a 256K L2 but not sure about the...

I've just installed MSI Core Center Pro, to try and check my CPU temp from within windows. Any other program I've tried reports CPU tems of 185 C....obviously wrong. Core center reports a CPU temp of 33C and system temp of 41C, which sounds to me like the wrong way round??? Can anyone recoomend a...

jakesnake said... Just experienced something very interesting. My PC is a homebuilt with an XP 2100+ oc'ed right now to 2ghz, 256mb pc2700 ram, ATI 8500le, SBLive, 40gb 7200 WD HDD, on an Abit KD7-E. My hard drive is dual partitioned, roughly the same size, one partition running 98se, ...

What separates the 2 for me is: Abit has the active northbridge cooling fan and the P4 power plug. Asus has the second LAN... I probably would have preferred the Abit but I've used Asus in the past and they havent steered me wrong + I needed the 2nd lan jim evans wrote: I'm trying to decide...

Question On pricewatch I see the Pentium III 866 mhz 133bus for 47 dollars (866/256/133) the Pentium III 850 mhz 100bus are 84 dollars (850/256/100 ) Is the price difference because of supply and demand or is there another reason for this ? I just obtained a dual processor Alton motherboard and...

Any one have opinions on which works better as a overclocking operating system. And does it make a difference if you have AMD or Intel?

"PC" wrote in message ... I'm a bit of a newbie to this so please be gentle with me..... I've just tried to run an Athlon 1200C and an XP2200 on this motherboard and neither will boot, actually neither will even go ...