Recent content by bazzla

John, I see where you're coming from on the 166MHz issue, but as the CPU's FSB is going to be 133MHz it will not be able take advantage of the higher memory bandwidth. I know the benchies do show some performance improvement with DDR333 vs DDR266, but I cannot get any clarification on what...

While on the face of it the choice is easy, the lower the better I would like opinons on what RAM to buy. I am going to purchase a new motherboard with KT333 chipset. The question I have is, what would give me better performance, PC2100 CAS2 or PC2700 CAS2.5? Thanks in advance for any insight.

This may seem like a daft question, but there is a chance that it will answer your problem: When you say it loops and loops, does it do so more than 3 times. If quick POST is disabled in the BIOS, then the system will do a full Power On Self Test. A full POST (at least on my P2B-S BIOS...

ASUS P2B-S still in my primary system, Celly 633 @ 950. I really could use much more power but can't afford to upgrade at the moment. My Dad's the prowd owner of a new XP 1700+ system, and likes rubbing it in!

On the subject of Fan monitoring, I've just got a new system up and running using an SL-75DRV2. The first thing I did (after deciding the system was reasonably stable) was upgrade the BIOS to K4. After installing W2K and the Smartguardian, I'm getting readings from my Volcano 7 as low as 3600. I...

The best wasy (I think) to be sure would be to check the power consumption of the drives including CD drives etc. then add them all together to find out what the peak power or current consumption would be in the event of them all being active at the same time. Compare this figure to the power...

Remember Athlon XP 1700+ runs at around 1.47GHz not 1.7GHz. You should be using 11 x 133MHz. Sorry if you knew that already, but it can't hurt to make sure.

Get an evaluation copy of SiSoft Sandra. (sorry don't have the url handy - should be easy to find though) Then run the HDD indexes/benchmarks, this will give you a comparison to many other configs, from ATA through to ATA/100 RAID.

>> Below that, it says: R. B. 8MX36 FPM 5V 72 SIM TIN Bit of background: 1x32 is 4MB that I know for sure, it follows that 8x32 is 32MB. 8x32 is 32MB non parity, 8x36 is a 32MB with parity, the extra 4 bits width is for the parity information. So you have a 32MB Parity, Fast Page Mode, 5...

If you buy a mobo with an additional RAID controller, then you will have a total of 4 IDE ports(physically), each capable of supporting 2 devices. For the configuration you mentioned, I'd suggest using the RAID controller for the 2 RAID arrays, although I'm not sure if the simple raid...

Just remember that the address could have been assigned dynamically for (for example) a dial up session. It could have been reassigned since then, so don't do jumping the gun with retribution! My 2 cents.

Hi, I've just got hold of a load of bits to make a new PC. Soltek SL-75DRV2 (updated BIOS from K3.5 to K4 already) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (11*133) 1x Crucial 256MB PC2100 CL2 DIMM ASUS V7700 Ti Pure IBM 120GXP 41GB ATA100 I am well experienced in building PCs etc. and know a fair bit. I have a...

The Crucial 256MB PC2100 is the only 184 pin DIMM I have. Anyone with an SL-75DRV2 and 256MB(+) in a position to check if their POST does the same? Thanks again.

Hi, I've just got hold of a load of bits to make a new PC. Soltek SL-75DRV2 (updated BIOS from K3.5 to K4 already) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (11*133) Crucial 256MB PC2100 CL2 DIMM ASUS V7700 Ti Pure IBM 120GXP 41GB ATA100 I am well experienced in building PCs etc. and know a fair bit. I have a...