Recent content by jonedd

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    MSI K8N Neo now available

    I wouldn't hold my breath ... Thermalright used to list the sp-98 on their site, and now it's no longer there. Also, one of their sales-people told me that that they will be coming out with similar heatsink for the Athlon 64 mobiles. Don't know when, though.
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    Overclocking system with AMD 64 and Nf3-250gb-- advice needed.

    Bar81: Well, I was looking at the desktop 2800+ until I read your "mobile athlon 64" thread. The desktop processors (at least the ones at Newegg) are ---AP/ CO revisions and have the 512k L2 which seem to have less potential. I may not use the headroom now, but as the system ages a bit, I may...
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    Overclocking system with AMD 64 and Nf3-250gb-- advice needed.

    essasin: Thanks for the reply. As I'm considering this very much an "educational expense" a very nice pre-built system actually has less value to me than a DIY failure. That said, I may go ahead and try water-cooling. Your WC rig is very similar to what I had looked into (different blocks...
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    Overclocking system with AMD 64 and Nf3-250gb-- advice needed.

    This is a long/detailed post, but I thought that some good responses would provide usefull to more than myself. Scenario: I?ve got $1500-2000 to spend on a new computer system (including monitor), and I want to spend it (I?ve already got a Radeon 9800 SE?soft modded to pro). It takes me about...