Recent content by mhopkin

One valuable fact that I found recently, that I would have loved to have know before building my own system, is that A64 chips require at least 18amps on the 12V rail of the power supply. The one that came with my case only produces 13 and I couldnt' figure out what was wrong for the longest...

My system specs: AMD 64 3200+ ASUS K8V DE 1 gig Corsair DDR 400 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 80 gig Maxtor SATA + 1.5 and DVD/CDROM Those are my specs but are irrelevant at this point because I can't get the CPU (by itself, out of the case with nothing else) to even beep. I did notice however slight...

I just read thru all 38 pages of this thread trying to get a better understanding of this mobo and if I knew what I knew now, I wouldnt' have bought it. Anyways, I just ordered my ideal game rig from newegg and got it all yesterday (including this mobo) assembled everything, hit power and...