Recent content by crust45833

any dfi boards?

THanks for all the advice

45C Idle? It was running at 60C during gameplay, anything to worry about?

It says that it will drop 2-5C but I was looking for it to drop more than that, the stock venice cores I have seen run about 10C lower, but maybe I got a lower grade chip since its the cheapest one, what temp in C could I be comfortable with, I am pretty much abandoning overclocking, is 45C...

Burn in wont do me any good, I am running at stock speed, I havent tried OCing yet, I want to make sure this processor is running correctly before I do any of that, any other ideas? Is the PSU a possible problem?

i dont think it is the case either, as It runs hot with the case on or off.

Dont understand Burn in? Please clarify, i have never heard that term.

Yes I have reapplied it several times, I used a zalman 7000 series heatsink and fan, and the stock, both resulted the same.

I am running a micro atx MSI board with an athlon64 3000+ which I was hoping to overclock and put in the computer with my x850xt, but it was running really high temps with everest, so i took out the x850 to see if it was drawing too much power, but that appeared not to be the case, everything...

OK thank i will try it

How do I check CPU Temp?

I just built a new computer, athlon 65 3400+ on a socket 754 asus motherboard, with 6600gt as graphics, seagate HDD and rosewill ram. All the Hardware seems to be functioning correctly, however when i put in my windows cd, just about everytime as soon as it gets done anylising hardware...

Looking to get a mobo and eventually upgrade to X2 3800 most likely, will any 939 board do?

Hi, My computer will not load windows, im running amd64 3400+, x850xt, 1gb ram, 2 120gb hdds in raid 0. The system starts up normally, but when it gets to the loading windows screen, it says that there was an error last time it restarted, i have tried last known good config, start normally, and...

How much more could I expect to be able to put in hardware wise, with a 400W