On Sep 30, 5:19*pm, mc wrote:
On Sep 30, 12:16*am, Ben Myers wrote:





On 9/28/2010 8:08 PM, mc wrote:

On Sep 27, 6:54 pm, "William R. Walsh"
m *wrote:
Hi!

I see the difference between boards is that the HJ054 supports using a
pentium D.

Well, you're doing better than I would have thus far. I don't know that
board very well and have not researched it.

As far as finding a power supply tester, I've located a few online but I
have not found one that still reads -5V for the older board systems..
Any suggestions.

You need only a piece of scrap wire, possibly some older hard drives and a
cheap multimeter to test a computer power supply. The scrap wire is used to
ground the green wire in the motherboard power connector (connect it to a
black wire). There is very little danger in doing this, as you are only
dealing with a low voltage (5 volt) source.

Since some power supplies need a minimum load to work properly (although
this is pretty rare), that is where the old hard drives come in. They should
be ones that you won't mind losing if the power supply is bad.

The voltmeter (need not be expensive, just relatively accurate) will tell
you what all the power supply voltages are doing. This is better than what a
lot of load testers do, as many of the ones I have seen only turn on an LED.

In a system as new as the Dimension E series, I'd be rather surprised if you
found a -5V line anywhere. Having a -5V line hasn't been required in the
ATX/BTX power specification since the early 2000s. Even so, a few power
supplies still have one.

William

Ok I have a hj054 MB on order. I need some help in understanding the
best choice for a cpu. This board is supposed to handle a pentium D
dual core. So what exactly does this mean as far as choices? It says
it has a 945G chip.
mc

According to Intel's web site, the 945G chipset supports the Core 2 Duo
CPU, as the fastest, bestest and baddest CPU you can install.

http://www.intel.com/products/deskto...g-overview.htm

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So is core 2 duo the same as pentium D, or is it different? I'm
guessing the biggest and baddest pentium D also means the HOTTEST.
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Ok, I see pentium D and core 2 are different. From what I'm reading,
core 2 will work on the e-520 series and not e-510.
mc