Recent content by RobUK

Thanks for the tip. I'm pretty sure that it's not the AGP bus speed. I've not fiddled with the FSB settings on either motherboard, so my old TBird on the KT7A is running at 133/66/33 (4:2:1) and I've never played with FSB overclocking on this machine. The Asus board is also running stock with...

Thanks for the tips guys. The card is pretty clean and the heatsink seems mounted OK (it does get hot during operation). The fan not behaving properly though is something I will check out. The thing I did notice is that on my KT7A the fit in the AGP slot is pretty loose. The Asus board is...

OK. I have a nasty problem. I've got a PNY GeForce 4 Ti4600 that I've had for about 18 months. The card has worked great and I've not had any problems with it... until about a week ago. I started seeing the following symptoms: - Corruption on Windows desktop (2D) within a minute or two of...

Great - thanks :)

Hey thanks for all the replies. There's a lot of useful info for me to look through. I've been browsing through some but still aren't much the wiser. All the boards listed seem to have some issue or other than doesn't make the suitable for building a quiet rig. The Asus boards don't seem to be...

Hey thanks. I may consider a good board with active cooling as I am willing to remove the active cooler and put on a larger heatsink (e.g. Zalman northbridge cooler or something) if the board is decent. Really, I'd like not to have to mess with it though and would like it to just work out of...

Thanks for the welcome :) Yeah, I usually find E-Buyer are good for prices and that is where I've currently been looking for upgrades. I've currently got Crucial RAM so I know they are a good manufacturer. Any advice on motherboards I should be looking at? I found a Gigabyte single-channel...

Hey everyone. I'm currently looking at getting a new CPU/motherboard/RAM combo to replace my broken/aging KT7A/TBird 1.4Ghz setup. I thinking of going for an AMD Barton 2500+, some kind of motherboard and 512Mb PC3200 (dual channel) setup. Primarily, I want to be able to run this quiet and...