Recent content by Arctor

Very much the same here. My friend's P4 630 is running at 28-34c, the mobo is 30c, and the video card's over 100C, as expected. But the HDD are just unexpectedly high. I put two WD2500JD's in the PC I'm using now and they never go over 35c. I expected similar from the ones I put in my...

I've been having the same issue with a pair of WD2500JS drives (SATA/7200/8MB) I just installed in a friend's computer. After some digging, I found this in the support forum for SpeedFan. It's not exactly about my drives, but it is about yours. http://www.bugtrack.almico.com/view.php?id=468...

What a week... Just wanted to take a moment before turning in to thank everyone who replied to my questions. My parts arrived on Tuesday, as expected. Put everything back together in a few hours. I decided to put the Zalman on first instead of trying the Intel-provided heatsink. Moved one of...

Wow! Thanks for the fast replies! I believe the P5P800 does support AGP 8x 0.8v because the spec page on the Asus website lists it. (I can't refrence the printed manual as it's in the box with the board still making it's way back to me.) The Asus site seems to be having a hiccup right now...

The case came with 8 standoffs with matching fine-threaded screws but if I'm remembering right (it's still en route back to me and I can't eyeball it right now) the mobo had more holes than I had standoffs. I did the corners first, then one on the edge near the AGP slot, one in the middle, one...

Thanks for the replies! I did swap both the memory sticks into all four of the slots and nothing changed. The box the mobo came packaged in had a "Works for 6xx series processors" sticker on it and the test .jpg's from ZipZoomFly let me know the BIOS is 1009. (In fact, I believe they...

At the beginning of the year, I started researching parts, proceedures, and compatibilities to build my first PC. (And as I'm no longer lurking, big thanks to everyone for the wealth of knowledge I've gained thus far!) About two weeks ago, I finally received the final pieces, but it all...