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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    Now I am getting delayed write failures off my secondary hard drive. Dont know if it is related but something is definetely messed up.
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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    I got up past 2.2Ghz and a lot of strange things started to happen yet prime was still stable after 12+ hours so I reverted back to stock on everything. Now when 2 people are logged on or when the computer is left on overnight and someone signs in a blank screen with a cursor is all that...
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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    Well after updating the bios the issues still remain. I cant get the 3x HT multiplier to boot at any HTT/FSB speed same goes for Cas 3. Currently at 2.2Ghz 245*9 and 245*2.5 for the HT. It is prime stable but is there performance loss for running the hypertransport so low?
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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    I just thought of something after failures of prime after raising the voltage to 1.525 attempting 2.2Ghz and failing then at 2.15 and failing after 6 hours. My motherboard is a Nforce4-4x variant which I believe means its standard HyperTransport speed is 800? So if thats the case instead of...
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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    When I had first found the max memory speed I had no dividers on so that max speed is still in the 225-230 range. The default speeds on the memory seem to be 2.5-4-4-8 according to cpu-z. So I manually set the speed at those and was able to up the htt to around 250 but it was not prime stable...
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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    When I found all the max numbers the memory was on a 2:1 divider. So if I did that would that help much?
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    Help needed with 3000+ winchester overclocking

    Current Specs: Gigabyte K8NF-9 a64 3000+ winchester Kingmax PC3200 2x512mb In my first venture in overclocking I followed Zebo's guide. My max numbers seemed somewhat low Max HTT: 270Mhz Ram: 230 at 2.5-4-3-7 1 T Max Cpu speed: 2.15Ghz @ 1.5v and 2.1 @ 1.4v multiplier at 9 (I assume...
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    Upgrade Suggestion

    Whats the deal with the opterons I assume they can be used for desktop use. I have looked through benchmarks and they are never directly compared to the athlons. I need to make a decision on what to get fairly soon. So x2, opteron, or regular 64? sub $250 that will smoke my 3000+
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    Upgrade Suggestion

    I dont think its the ram as the peak mem usage never got over half. So any reccomendations on a Socket 939 processor around $250 or less...
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    Upgrade Suggestion

    I am looking to upgrade my current system it just seems a little sluggish for my needs. I do some gaming, video encoding, photoshop, audio work, and a lot of multitasking. Wondering what would benefit me more a processor upgrade or an extra gig of ram. I have at max around $250 to spend. Not...
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    Pentium 3 in old Pentium 2 motherboard?

    Im not sure of the motherboard model # but it is from a IBM PC300PL.
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    Replacing CD drive

    Im afraid its the latter I tend to just use 2 fingers one on top the other on the bottom and pull but sometimes they get a little stuck. If necessary you could try some pliers
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    Pentium 3 in old Pentium 2 motherboard?

    I have a Pentium 3 processor that is 600mhz and a pentium 2 that is either 400 or 450 not sure. How would I be able to tell if I can put the Pentium 3 processor into the pentium 2 motherboard? and is PC133 ram backwards compatible with PC100 ram?
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    New card for BF2

    I have a buddy who has a pci 9250 128mb(he does have an agp slot) apparently it is not supported for the bf2 demo or the official game. He has a little over $100 to spend all he is worried about is playing the game as he doesnt bother with high settings. For around that range you can get a...
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    Lost password to XP, can't open Windows

    I believe if you boot into safe mode (F8) and then login as an administrator you can go into xp user accounts and change them.