Recent content by Negatyfus

I've used my computer without chipset cooling the entire night yesterday. Not one crash or sign of instability. This has been going on forever. I'll do some testing for you and check back with the results. I've never even taken the motherboard out, so if I'm gonna replace it I'm probably...

I think I read on these forums once how bad the Asus A8N-SLI chipset fan is. It seems to be completely dead now. It's the one with the Asus logo, right next to the PCI-e slot, so I assume it's the chipset fan. Sometimes it will try to rotate and make one hell of a racket, but eventually it gives...

Like I said, I'm not much of a PC builder. How big is the chance that I ruin the motherboard when I start screwing things off and on it? ;) I feel like it's not quite the same as placing extra RAM, removing a HD or inserting a PCI card...

Hmmm, I could replace it with something quieter, I suppose. But the thing is, and I'm not sure if that's normal, sometimes it runs pretty quiet. Then it seems like it's starting to grind against some surface and the noise can become terrible. A moment later it'll be quiet again. That leads me to...

Hi, I'm sure problems like this have been posted about before, but I'm not really a PC builder myself. However, I'd like to hear from people who have experience with this sort of thing. I have an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard and it has extreme fan noise from time to time. The thing is, this...

The system's been alive for maybe a month. It's brand new and I didn't build it myself, but had it professionally done. I hope I can trust that they knew what they were doing, since I payed them money and all.

Nobody's got an idea, then? :( Are there other people with SATA drives experiencing random problems?

Sorry, did I leave that part out? ;) It's a pretty good one as far as I'm concerned: - Tagan TG480-U01 480 Watt Can't see a problem there, but who knows?

First, let me give you my specs: AMD Athon 64 3500+ POV GeForce 6800GT Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA Asus nForce4 board Running Windows XP SP1 (still wary of SP2) Now, I have two occasional problems I'd very much appreciate comments for. The harddisk problem: - It happens...

Actually, no. RAID 0 does utilize all of the hard drives' capicity, but it spread it over them equally to improve performance.

Hmm, the 160GB DM10 is only 4 euros less than the 200GB... so that would not be worth going down for. Maybe 2x36MB RAID0 Raptors => 72GB would be okay, but still I'm too paranoid to go RAID0, I think. ;) And too lazy to make daily DVD backups to protect myself. :)

For real? I though dual-channel made much more of a difference. Makes me think about going with the 1 stick of 1GB. Thanks for that. Also, I'm playing with the idea of going with Raptors, possibly two with RAID0. Wonder how stable that will be, though.

Thanks for your replies. stevty2889, the 250GB ones are a big step up in terms of price, so I guess it's not worth it. What I am still undecided over is whether to add in a 36MB Raptor drive... it's an additional 100 euros, but it may be worth it to throw the OS/apps/games on there. But...

Hiya. Hopefully I can get some quick answers before I go buy this system this afternoon. :) My current choice is: Tagan TG480-U01 480W power supply Asis A8N-SLi nForce4 AMD Athon 64 3500+ 1GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM van Twinmos (dual-channel setup) Maxtror DiamondMax 10 SATA 200GB Aopen...

Okay, thanks. Good info.