Recent content by armax1980

I plan on buying a Asus P5E mobo, E8400 chip, 4 gigs RAM and don't plan to OC. Which memory speed should I consider getting 800 or 1066? I've been reading about people using 1066 on these boards and getting a lot of stability and booting problems. Should I stick with the stable 800 or take a...

Sorry, I meant the ASUS P5E that uses DDR2.

I need a little help choosing a mobo to use with the E8400 chip. I've narrowed it down to the ASUS P5E and the Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 boards. Which is more reliable and better value? I don't plan on doing any overclocking.

The only S939 X2 manchester or toledo chips I see are the 3800 and 4200. Perhaps someone here would know of a place that still have the 4600 or 4800 in stock. Right now, the only X2 4600 and 4800 available are in the AM2 socket format.

Back in Dec. the X2 4800 was at $230 and slowly going down in price. I thought I could hold out a little longer til it dip below $200 before upgrading my 3500 to a dual core, now my next option would have to be a new mobo and chip(most likely going with Intel). Unless AMD is slow in restocking...

Does anyone know if they are still being produced? I can't seem to find them at newegg or ZipZoomFly anymore.

I currently have a AMD64 3500+ venice core with 1gb ram(512x2) and thinking about upgrading to the 4600 or the 4800 toledo core on the same mobo(MSI Neo 4 platinum non-SLI). Does the dual core cpu have the memory problem that the old Althon 64 chips used to have where using more than 2 sticks...

The chipset fan on my K8N board non-SLI is dying and at times it doesn't spin. Does anyone know of a good replacement heatsink that doesn't stick out too far and getting in the way of the graphic card?

Does anyone know if the K8N Neo4 platinum non SLI will work with the 3500+ Venice chip? Searches the MSI site but can seem to find any Bios update.

My 3500 Venice just got shipped out from Monarch and should be here on monday.

Not only did newegg jack the price they also axed the free shipping.

From what I've read the venice has a updated memory controller that should fix some of the problems of using 4 sticks of ram.

$300!!! it was $273 for retail a month ago. And yes the 90nm did drop to 273 a month ago, must be running low on warehouse supplies.

Yeah, currently SLI doesn't work with most games.

Good thing I haven't bought anything yet, gonna wait til my X800 XL card arrives(whenever that may be) then I start buying the CPU and stuff. I totally agree with Virtuallarry on retailers pressuring shop.ati to cancel the orders. What better way for retailers to continue the price gouging...