sounds good...... have you concidered upgrading to a dual channel mobo? I
had the A7N8X-X too and only replased it with my MSI board for the DC memory
abilities.
Tomorrow is payday and I think I'm gonna buy a copper heatsink and fan to
see what that does. My system is funny, I did get it to boot @200, but it
aint reliable. I'm thinking heat is the factor. So, I'll blow a few bucks
on a good copper HS.
I got Nero's latest version with the 2 DVD burners I got with last years tax
refund one for 2 of the systems I have here It works great.... so far,
but, I am still learing all about the dvd copying, creating, editing
thing......
Thanks for the input!!!!!


"Van Shania" wrote in message
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And 1 more thing, for games yes there is a good performance boost but for
video editing, I'm afraid you will still be waiting for at least 8 hours
to convert your movie files to dvd quality mpegs. I don't even think the
dual cores or fx series will make a big dent in this time either. I think
we will have to wait until fsb speed gets faster to see any real
advantages for "faster" cpus to start doing some real damge to vid
editing. Speaking of which, anyone know of a good dvd burning suite?
Unfortunately I missed my chance at buying CopyDvd before it was shut
down.
"Van Shania" wrote in message
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I have an asus a7n8x-x mobo ans an xp2600. I set the fsb up from 166 to
200, lock my agp at 66mhz, my samsung pc3200 at SPD and raised my voltage
from 1.65 to 1.775 and it runs with no problems. my vid card is an ati AIW
9600. scored 10000 on 3dmark 2001se


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Ok guys,
How about a little help here? I have tried my damnedest to over clock my
system. "they" say that the MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR is one of the best for
it. "they" say that the Athlon XP2500 is one of the best for it. "they"
say that you need quality parts, a good power supply and lots of
cooling. So, I bought a K7N2 delta ILSR board, an XP2500 processor, an
Antec true power 420 power supply, a Raidmax not sure of model case
with 4 case fans plus 2 fans in the power supply. Plus I added one of
the fans that sucks air out thru your PCI slots right below my video
card to pull it's hot air out. As for quality parts, beyond the mb, cpu
pwr supply.... I have 1 gig of ddr 400 pc3200 Geil ram, I had, an ATI
Radeon 9800 pro, but just upgraded to an ATI X800 GTO video card. I
bought a coolmaster cpu heatsink and fan. But, I cant over clock my
system for ****!!!!
When I do, my performance in benchmarks goes DOWN. The only thing I can
figure is the culprit is.... my Antec true power 420 power supply is
crap!!!! My voltages suck!!! My 3.3v reads 3.26 my 5v reads 4.95, and my
12v reads 11.64 with MSI's PC alert, and desktop monitor.
But, when I replace it with my Raidmax original power supply my voltages
are similar. My temps are good, my CPU runs between 125 and 140 degrees
F.
At these temps, I think I have alot of room to over clock, right? Do I
need to put something on my CPU to over clock it? Is there something I'm
missing here? Or are some CPU's just not overclockable?
Could an old, 40gb HD have something to do with it? I have a SAMSUNG
SV4003H 40gb hd as my C, a WD WD400BB as my D. a 56x cd rom and a 16X
DVD R/W.
I am at wits end as what to do here......
Not that it's anything that is drastically needed I mean I get decent
fps in doom3, BF2 the 2 games I play But, I just figure that I should
be able to over clock this mofo up to the 2.13 ghz that the 2500 is
noted for.
I've read that the 2500 WILL run at 400mhz FSB which I assume will give
you quite a performance boost I can run it at 350, but as I said, my
performance takes a hit for some reason.
I cant see the rational of upgrading to a 64 bit system right now as
they are running similar speeds around 1.8-2.5 ghz. And most games are
not made to run @64 bit anyways. I guess I just dont get the whole
OC'ing thing and what the hell makes it fly. Am I supposed to short
something on my CPU? Or do something funky? Or is it just a bios tweak?
My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told her a water
cooling system for my puter, but, hell, if my temps are good with the
cooling I have, then even water cooling isn't going to help me, I"m
thinking I've got like a border line CPU or something else......
Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated!!!! I've been
building systems since 1991 but haven't delved into overclocking, but
built this rig so I could.... but, I cant..... lol........... Thanks for
any help anyone can give me.
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{SFU} Jackyl

MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR
Athlon XP2500
ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256
1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC