Any thoughts on them? Is Alumina as good as Silver? I have some of each I can use, but the Silver is about a year old while I just got the Alumina the other day so it's fresher. I'm thinking go Alumina mainly because it's newer unless there's a good reason not to.

Are all 2500's Barton core?

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.

Hi I recently bought 2 XP1400's. When I got them the bios identifies them as Mobile XP's. I run Wcpuid and in the extended info it says they are multi processor capable. None of my other 8 AMD cpu's say this. Is this a fluke in Wcpuid or are they truely MP enabled cpu's?

I was looking at a new PC on Ebay and I saw one at a good price with a Sempron processor. I read that they won't work for 64 bit and there slower than athlons. My main concern though is are they compatible with everything a Athlon is compatible with? I'm asking because I heard Celeron...

That is, could a great deal on a Sempron during the building of a new system lead me to spend those dollars in the present on something else, with the plan to later throttle up the processor to an Athlon (64?) using the same motherboard and memory? Or are the architectures too different and...

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hi i am new here and i need some help i have an Asrock K7VM2 with a xp1800+ and 1 x 128 and 1 x 256 (both pc133) i have just upgraded to the K7VM2 and when windows 2000 pro loads up it gets to the the logo screen then says it can not read the boot drive but in windows 98 it works adrian

Okay, I was all sent to buy a Epox MB, carefully researching the alternatives - and low and behold, this darned Asus keeps popping up... I also saw the Soyo Dragon series. I went up on the Asus site and the specs are confusing to say the least! It seams there's 4 versions of the A7N8X - and only...

I've just built a new system, and am having problems with the MOBO and my keyboard. The MOBO indicates that I have a missing or error with my keyboard, but ONLY after I have been in Windows and shutdown the system for a period of time. Keyboard is a Microsoft Internet Pro with PS2...

I've just built a new system, and am having problems with the MOBO and my keyboard. The MOBO indicates that I have a missing or error with my keyboard, but ONLY after I have been in Windows and shutdown the system for a period of time. Keyboard is a Microsoft Internet Pro with PS2...

Hello, a few days ago, I got an AMD Athlon Thunderbird-CPU with 1,4 GHz from the "C"-Series. Now I want to run this CPU in my good old Asus A7V with KT133-chipset. I know, the CPU is FSB 133 and the set is FSB 100. But with a BIOS-Update it should not be a problem to run a 1400 MHz-CPU at 14 x...

I must do a work (3d and 2d graphics with many large files). I must power on my PC without spend many money.. I've: asus a7v133 rev: 1.05 (chipset VIA-KT133A) Bios revision 1010 beta 001-B 512 MB ram PC-133 (2x256mb pices) Duron 900 mhz... Geforce2mx (tuned) :-) WinXp pro...

Will this combo work. On the Asus site it says the highest is the 2100 Palomino. If not, what is the main problem? CPU core voltage? Multiplier? ? Thanks

Last weekend i went out and bought a XP 2500 AMD CPU and got it home thinking it would work in my motherboard. My older motherboard only goes up to 266 bus speed. So I went back and bought anAsus A7V8X motherboard, its a cheap board. But its all I need. Before I take everything out and take it...

I had an Asus iPanel connected to my old A7M266 mobo. Everything worked fine, but I then upgraded to the A7N8X. I see that the A7N8X has an IR connector. My question is, therefore, is there a way to 'adapt' the iPanel, to allow me to use the IR port within it, as I am still using the USB ports,...

Hi folks, I just assembled an old AT7 and put a Tbird 1.2 Ghz (100 fsb) in it. ON boot, it is identified correctly and tuns fine. (I do have to turn it on and off twice to get it to actually boot with video for some reason though). Also, when I go into Soft Menu bios, the default setting are for...

Learned scholars, My Athlon 1.2 system can't detect SDRAM memory. system: Athlon1.2, Asus A7 mobo, 64mb Toshiba RAM, 128mb Hynix Ram, Strawberry128mbRAM, Geforce2 MX64mb, Actually before, everything is ok. just that as a hobbyist i tend to help my friends with pc matters and in the course of...

Just installed a new Athlon 1.33GHz 266FSB on GA-7ZXR Rev1.0 board. Have latest BIOS version FB installed. I'm unable to get the board to boot when the CPU dip switches are set to 133MHz, even though it appears the board and the BIOS should support this. The POST screen also misses the boat and...