Recent content by ec32070

robisc, why are you not getting a climate controlled storage unit? (price/location/etc) I live in Alabama and I've had to rent a climate controlled storage unit. The one I got was quite large but they have smaller units that might be able to house the 5 cpus if that is your main concern...

I would recommend the barton chip. Faster fsb and more cache, plus based on some reviews of the A7N8X deluxe I've read the barton can be "tweaked" to run very well on this mb.

Zainali, checked the user reviews on this board at Newegg and it looks like you might have a bad mb. The problem you have mentioned was listed several times in the reviews and each person had to RMA the board. Here is a link to the user reviews at Newegg...

You might try checking out this link http://www17.tomshardware.com/howto/20021102/index.html It's a little behind the times in regards to the components currently available but it does a pretty good job of explaining most of the basics.

Also, reinstall the memory just to make sure it is seated properly. As newbiepcuser mentioned, disconnect everything that isn't really critical. Basically you need the cpu, hsf, memory, power, and video card installed to do a quick boot test.

Midtower case should be fine for your fist build. Fulltower will definitely have more room but you will usually have to buy new longer floppy and hard drive cables. Good luck on your build.

Definitely check to make sure the video card is in the slot good as Gunbuster said. Also, if you have a pci vidoe card laying around you might put it in as well and try to boot up. Not real familiar with the Soltek boards but it might be that the bios is set to use pci instead of agp. Not a...

If you were looking to go ahead and get a new video card with DX9 support you might want to check out the Sapphire ATI OEM Radeon 9500 128MB at Newegg. It's selling for $139 w/ free shipping. From all of the reviews it looks like you can do some serious ocing with it and get close to 9800...