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this is gibson again, I ran a few Sandra (2001te Standard) benchmarks on my DRAGON K7V, compared to my k7ADA (in parenthesis) board: CPU Benchmark: Dhrystone 3703 (3743) Whetstone 1817 (1832) CPU Multimedia Benchmark: MMX 7265 (7600) 3DNOW 9086 (9091) Memory Benchmark: Int: 543 (504) Float...

good point. The vendor said that it appears (by visual inspection) that some resistors were moved by hand. He also allegedly observed this on the other 10 boards in their inventory. Anyway, I don't know which IRQ the raid uses because I disabled it in the bios. There are only a few jumpers on...

Hi all, I was in the market for a new mobo right as the dragon came to market. The other day I saw some messages wondering if anybody had installed a dragon yet. I just did and would like to share a few simple observations. If anybody has questions, I'd love to try to answer them. Bear in...

hehe. tx guys. I feel better. btw, i just reduced the voltage 1.70, ran a DVD and locked up. so I'm back at 1.73. is there a rule of thumb temp to use as an alarm for an athlon 1.33? right now my alarm is set for 140 F.

Is an AMD Althon 1.33G CPU temp of 53 degrees C (157 F) okay? sounds a little hot to me. this is the easy temp (no stress). Thanks! My system is a soyo K7ADA with 256megs DDR, and a natural 1.33ghz Althon. voltage is currently at 1.73, and seems stable. I suppose I should drop it a notch...

Hi all, I just installed the subject mobo and Althon 1.33G into my rig (and also added 256M of DDR pc2100 ECC). All of these parts are from a reputable source (thechipmerchant.com) in my hometown. For the meantime, I'm allowing the mobo to "auto" the settings for the multiplier, and...