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I just picked up a T3400 on egay. Bought a barebones system. Put in 8 GIG OCZ ram, Q6600, a 250gig WD HD adn a 8800GTS Video card. Ended up putting Windows 2003 Server in it, Vista was too much of a pain and the harddrive never stopped with Vista. So far, I like it. I upgraded from a...

I recently RMA'd a Seagate 300gb drive- drive # 1. I paid for advanced replacement and received a drive in 5 days- 2nd day shipment mind you. I pulled the HD - drive # 2 out of the super foam box they sent. When I picked it up, it drive #2 made a clinking noise inside. I plugged in in and the...

if you want to sell your 8400 mobo, please let me know Thanks, Stan

I have a MB with only an 8x PCI-Express video slot- Dell SC420. I wonder if a PCI express card will work in it. It is a second computer, currently a server. I want to beef it up with a good video card. I am not sure it will work. Anyone have any knowledge on this? Thanks...

From my research, there is little difference between them. I have tried the board and after 20+ hours, I can only get 3.7 stable. I can get to 1000-250 FSB by reducing the CPU clock, but she can't get to 4.0. All in all, a good board, but it falls short of my hopes. The board...

I went to www.zipzoomfly.com I am replacing an FX-53 system. I speced up a Intel 550, with the P5AD2 and 1 gig of Corsair PC5400. I want to overclock the crap out of it. I want to get about 4.2. That;s my goal. I have all SATA drives. I ordered a ATI X600XT card. I was going to go...

First, EASY KILLER. This is not a FLAME, it is an owner's experience. I have an BFG 6000 GT OC 256mb Ram. I have an Asus A8V with 1 gig HyperX PC 4000. I can't OC cause of the board. My Futuremark 05 scores were poor. It should have screamed. Tell you what. I will do a bench...

I have an FX-53 939 Pin. I am not overly impressed with it. I am switching to a Intel 550- 3.4 and will OC it. The gaming performance is good with the FX series, but for the $$$, I want to be awed and I just wasn't I am an AMD supported and have alot of AMD stock, but...

I saw a post that they are selling them in England too. I think they want to liquidate all of their current 32 bit chips first. We are talking Billions in lost profit, if the 64 take off with tone of 32's in stock.

I bought the Premium P5AD2. I will get it on Wednesday. When I get it, I will let you know what it does or does not do. Stan

I used the OEM baseplate without any problems. Just screw the fan to it.

CURE FOR THE VIDEO ISSUE 1. Take out 9800 Pro 2. Buy big, Ball-pien Hammer 3. Smash numerous times.. 4. Go Buy Nvida Card- 6800OC at Bestbuy $299- includes Far Cry and Doom3 Actually, in the bios set the AGP Mode to 4X and the Fast Write to DISABLED. Solved my...

I also bought both. The Asus is the one I went with. The MSI was nice, but difficult to set up. The Asus is almost plug and play. The asus does not overclock, until board revision 2.0, but if that isn't a concern, than get it now.

34-36c idle, 46-50 load- playing call of duty I love the fan.

I have an Asus A8V version 1.02 with an FX F3. Don't hold your breath too much on the oc. I have dumped up the FX53 to 13X200 with a bump up in voltage. I am using the Zalman copper fan and my temps were 60+ C quickly. My computer would reboot after stress tests. I can bump up the voltage...