Recent content by babentx

Yeh, thanks for the advice: I wound up buying a new Vantec 520, but it didn't have the 6-pin connector, it had an 8-pin. After a little modification [cutting wires. soldering them in correct place....shrink tubing], I had a 6-pin connector that worked just fine. And BTW, I don't know what card...

Thanks for the replies, kind gents. 'Looks like I'll be hunting a new power supply tommorrow which will have the correct connector for the video card. But, I learned quite a bit, which counts for something. Well, after a little more looking around, I come up with this: Intel:20or24. Wonders...

Right, and I would'nt care to power this thing up without all everything nailed down tight. 'Can't make my own now; unless there's a way around the 24 pin connector from the power supply. And I really wanted to see what this thing would do tonight !!!! Oh well, there's usually tommorrow !!!!!

The 6 pin power connector on an ATI X800 XT supposedly doesn't have to be connected, according to some sources I found, that the card will draw enough current through the PCI-E slot; anyone had any experience with this ? This is one article I saw: X800XT:Look,NoConnector ??. Obviously, I...

LOL while hoping I didn't.... 'Just my luck sometimes.....we'll see [and the P/N coming up with zilch does nothing to enhance my hopes either]....

The P/N is 102A3190802-117729, which punching in the first part of the number tells me there is no such card; unfortunately, ATI customer care is closed for the holidays at this time, so it's a little difficult to get in touch with them. 'Have no means to see what the BIOS # is, as I don't have...

The card is an ATI [brand] card. I don't have the new motherboard I'm getting yet to be able to tell anything about it, as it's PCI-E. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if the X800 XT's didn't all definately come with the GC16 memory chips. Thanks for the replies.

I hope I understand the facts correctly about memory on the X800, because I think I just got taken if I do. I thought the X800XT had Samsung GC16 memory chips; the one that arrived today has GC20 memory chips, the same as a X800 Pro I had before. I had read this when reading about overclocking...

Okay, I won't judge AMD by this; one of the reasons I purchased the processor was because of reading a lot of info on it here, on many, many other forums, over a long period of time, and from the AMD forum. I stated I had built up a Sempron system for my cousin and it performed very well. I also...

Thanks for the info. Actually this is more of a "I'm really PO'd" post than anything. I've done all the things you stated days ago, but I do sincerely appreciate the info. Actually, I've been building PC's since the early '90's, when 8088's & 8086's were still around. And, I spent the...

Sure, 'sorry about that......memory is Kingston HyperX 3200; yes, bios, drivers are all the latest; MSI has a live update utility that helps with this. DEP was turned off in Win XP also. I've built PC's since 8086's were out, and I know all of those turned out a lot better than this setup...

I received a MSI Neo Platinum mb w/an FX-55 & 2GB DDR; I very, very carefully installed this board in my case [even wore a grounding strap :):)!!]; other componets of this setup were a new OCZ 520W PS, ATI X800 Plainum video card, 2 36GB Maxtor U320 SCSI's running off an Adaptec 39320R...

I'm updating my system from an Asus P4P800 w/P2.8 and going with a 939 board. My question is quite simple. I've read quite a bit on this site, and have searched, but still don't know what MB to go with, and if I should wait for the FX-55 ?? I'm in no hurry, as I do have a running system right...

Yes Eagle, Maxtor and several other companies do make some high end 320's; I'm not going to say the Maxtors are better than the Seagates, because I got these Cheetahs when Ultra320 first came out, and there were definately problems with 320 at first that had to be worked out; maybe I just got...

Thanks Eagle. Regarding the Adaptec controller, I'm not sure I understood what you said; my adapter is a 39320R, which is 2 internal connectors and 1 external conntector, and supports RAID. I also have a 39320D which is a single internal connector with 2 external connectors and does not...