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Its my understanding these chips don't like a lot of voltage anyway. I tried a few different settings that people recommended. Loosened everything up. I am going to try the 702-1 BIOS too. If I could get to 270 I would be happy with my 9/10 divider, but if not, I'll just take what I can...

thanks Stevo, I think I will try to tighten it up a bit. I guess the trade-off for getting a good CPU (2.7ghz on stock) is getting "average" ram. Ironically I was planning on buying an Epox (not SLI), but bought the DFI in a Monarch combo deal. Turns out I couldn't use the 9/10 anyway. I...

The good news: I have an Opty 144 (0546) that overclock stable at 2.7ghz 300x9. Passed SuperPrime, OCT, and Prime 95 (8 hours). DFI Ultra-D The not-so great news: The g.skill 2gbhz DDR 500 "only" overclocks to about 264. I tried the test that gs tech recommended about raising the HTT...

Weird. My computer is usually on all day, and I use it when I get home from work. I turned it off for a while and it runs around 40c and eventually maxes out around 50c or so. It also does not feel hot to the touch and my case temps are around 45c - 48c so I'm not sure if its that far out of...

bump I also have this dirve and my temps have been up around 50c too. I may move it down in front of the fan to see if that helps. According to WD the operating temps should be between 5c and 55c. A little close for comfort

Thanks Z, that was actually very helpful. I think I will just uninstall smart guardian and go with speen fan. I was unaware of the presets too, I 'll check that out. I had one more thought. I have a circular side panel grill that is maybe 150mm across. I am wondering if I can turn...

Intersting. I have an 80mm fan in the front (intake) and an 80mm fan in the back (exhaust). I have a side grill but no mountings for a fan. I could probably put a 120mm fan in pretty easily. I wonder how it would work to have the front and back exhaust while the bigger side fan was...

I have a generic Ninja 2 case that has room for 2 80mm fans in the lower front and one 80mm fan in the upper back. It also has a grill on the side that air can come or go through that is roughly over the CPU heat sink (xp-90) and fan. My cpu idles around 30 and loads at about 40. It is an...

This is kinda weird, because I thought that the rails would be 18A and 15A, too. I even downloaded the manual that stated 18A and 15A. Today I got the box and the manual and box both state 18A and 18A. Maybe they reengineered it? Or updated the specs? Anybody know which is right?

Its $82 shipped for me, which I guess isn't much worse. Anybody else know of a good place to get this power supply?

I know this is old, but did any of you buy through Actbuy? The site lists it as retail and it has free shipping at $79. Any word on the warranty? Or the reliability of Actbuy?

Mainly a gaming system. A RAID would be faster, but consume more power, have 100GB less space and if one drive failed I would be screwed. Is the extra speed worth it? Assume $100 is all I have. There is a Western Digital 250GB SATA 16MB drive at ZZF that I am leaning toward.

I think there was a post a few days ago about AMD raising the prices on the Opterons. Might be a thread around somewhere

I got the same message, but they *did* sell it without ordering a HS/F from them. YMMV