Recent content by Michael10

I would suggest joining the Extreme Overclockers Forums and reading the tutorials on water cooling. I have never tried water cooling myself so I can't offer any personal advice. I think it depends on your manual/mechanical skills. If you are good with your hands and are willing to risk...

As I wrote above -- moving from the P4 to the 64 3500+ and the mobo swap raised my AquaMark3D score from around 16,000 to around 38,000 -- still using my Crucial 2700 (1 GB). I replaced the 2700 with PC 3200 (OCZ Plantium Edition 2 extreme low latency -- or something like that) and my...

I moved from a P4, 2.4b (ASUS P4PE) which was o/c to 2.7 to a 3500+ (ASUS A8V Deluxe -- no wifi). Still using my Micron PC 2700 (1gb). I am also running an overclocked 9700 pro. My 3DWINMARK has increased from 4800 to about 5500 and my AquaMark3 from 16,000 to 38,000. I have increased the...

Found a couple of other links to problems with ASUS A8V: http://forums.pcper.com/showth...090214&postcount=4 http://forums.pcper.com/showth...105817&postcount=8 Hope something helps and keep us posted. Michael

I posted this over at extremeoverclocking com. This is the second thread at AnandTech I have seen on problems with the A8V. I checked the MAX PC article mentioned below and AlienWare, ZEUS, and Velocity Micro were all running the A8V in their machines. Two of the others were using ASUS boards...

I built my 3500+ ASUS A8V system yesterday. Running an overclocked 9700 with no problems. Do you have the first version of the A8V or the revised version (no wi-fi). Michael

My advice is free and probably worth what it cost you but I would make sure all of the drivers for both video cards are uninstalled. I would then use reg cleaner (I usually use the auto features) to clean unused keys, shortcuts, whatever. I would then reinstall the ATI drivers. Just don't...

Oakleaf, I would suggest replacing the mobo and CPU but there are a number of other factors. RAM, video card, what you plan to do with the machine, etc. I don't know what MOBOs will fit your machine. Dell has used standard parts but has also used special form factors for its boards so a...