Recent content by flurazepam

Quote from Binky: "The fan startup voltage is too high. Put another fan in and it should be fine." No, that is incorrect. The problem lies within the bios itself and affects all 8 series chipsets regardless of configuration. "...There's a bug in the BIOS code that restores the state of...

Did anyone see this? That wasn't my understanding. http://communities.intel.com/message/201290#201290

Reporting back. The install was swift and clean; the results were impressive. I had to do nothing to the o/s (no reinstalls, configs etc. etc.). I managed to keep an entire system out of the landfill. Incidentally I upgraded from a 3200+. The machine runs cooler believe or not, and the...

Thanks. I'm going to pick one up and test it out. Will report back on the upgrade.

Toss the p/s. Get a > 500W quality supply (Antec, PCP&C, etc.).

Has anyone tried to install an Opteron 185 (E6) (939) into an ASUS A8R32-MVP? If so, how's it running? Also, does the CPU get recognized in the bios screen? I know that any Opteron > 165 isn't listed as being supported on the ASUS website for this mobo, but then again, they stopped qualifying...