Recent content by cbolton

Hi Everyone, I have an Antec 660B case with two front USB ports and 1 front 1394 "firewire" port. I have an Asus P4S8X motherboard and the pin out for the 1394 on the mobo isn't close to what the Antec case has as described below. I have connected what I have and it's not working. I posted...

Hi, I have an Antec 660B case with two front USB 2.0 and one 1394 port. I plugged in the cables from the front of the case to the pin outs on the mobo and it's not working for me. I noticed that the ASUS documentation and the Antec documentation didn't exactly coincide as to what plugs in where...

Whoa - it didn't like that.... I setup the advanced chip configuration as I described with the details you added. System came up and blue screen saying that "windows has shutdown to avoid damaging your computer". Is there something that I missed?

Hi Elvis2, A question.... When you mentioned: Corsair at 2-2-2-5-1T @ 166mhz I finally have all the components and XP is installed. Figured out how to set the memory speed to 166Mhz - that's easy. In the BIOS under Chip Configuration I was using "By SPD" using memory defaults. If I want to...

Hey thanks - that worked. The I/O panel popped right off and I inserted the new one. Yeah - I think I may skip the 36" cables - trying to reconfigure the drives in the case to get them as close as possible... Thanks again for you help - that much closer to gaming!

Hi Everyone, I have just started building my first computer and everything was going pretty well. However, I pulled the mobo out if it's protective bag and the I/O ports on the back of the mobo do not match the standard Antec case I/O panel. My Asus board came with an I/O panel - how do I...

Hello, I am about to receive the P4S8X mobo on Friday and despite all of the problems I have heard with the board and DDR400 I took the plunge to get: CORSAIR MEMORY XMS 512MB 32MX8 PC-3200C2 with the mobo hoping that these issues will get figured out. If it doesn't than I overpaid for...

Ok - I have been convinced to get one.... Googlegear has my order for a P4S8X and 2.53Ghz PIV now... What's the optimal way to configure the drives in this mobo? Here is what I have: 1 80GB WD SE w/8MB cache (OS Drive) 1 120GB WD SE w/8MB cache (Data Drive for Apps, MP3's, etc) 1 Lite-On 48X...

Aaah - didn't see that Dbett already had the CPU 3D Review link in his post. My bad...

Nice thread dbett! I am ready to pull the trigger on a P4S8x myself but have been waiting for a bit more info from folks using the motherboard. Based on your trials - DDR400 doesn't look too good with this board.. I hope you can use ATA 133 without a RAID configuration. I was actually wanting to...

I can't answer your question but am interested in seeing some responses :) I am also very interested in picking up a P4S8X - Serial ATA and 8X AGP I'm hoping to keep it for at least 18 months... I am not as interested in the OC abilities as I am in stability right now. How do people that have...

Thanks! This is turning out to be a fun hobby... I'll check out the KT400 - I have read a lot of good things about it.

Hello, I am about to build my first PC from scratch and have learned a ton just by reading everyone's posts on the motherboard topics. I figured I would post this topic because I want to built a good system from the start.. Here is what I am looking to build: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (Didn't think...