Recent content by wakedog102

Maybe I'm wrong... Hey I HOPE I'm wrong. Tell me, I've never owned a CPU that told me the operating temp.

Mine seem to idle at 40C w/o Cool'n Quite on. With Cool'n Quite they are 30C. I have an Antec Sonata case which has a powersupply with only one fan. For a little while had a different powersupply with a fan that sucked air up from the case right above the processor. I think I noticed that the...

this is what I'm going to school for! yey!

tried unplugging *everything* all fans, hds, dvd drive, floppy and just booting with cpu power, cpu fan, and video card, got same result. I checked the wattage estimateor and i got 370Watts. Currently i'm running 380W PS. i have a feeling the card is drawing a lot of power on startup, and the...

I tried other molexes with no luck. The card does power on at first, indicating there is some power coming into the connector, but then shutsdown before the rest of the system boots. I forgot to mention I'm running an ASUS K8V with an A64 3000+. I'm getting so sick of all the problems I'm...

RMAed first BFG 5900 from GameVE (Thanks a lot). Same problem everyone else has recently been posting about. Mine wouldn't even boot. My mobo would just sit there. The new BFG 5900 came in today (from BFG, thankfully didn't even bother with GameVE) and seems to run ok (at least i get a...

I was messing aroudn with Cool'N Quite on my ASUS K8V w/ A64 3000+. It seems like when it is enabled (verified by CPU-Z and ASUS Cool'N Quite Software) that there is a signifigant performance hit taken when loading apps, and doing general work. On the plus side, my processer temps were very...

well I've got no technical advice to give other than, I had an MSI K8T800 which would freeze on WinXP install all the time. I just basically had to keep trying over and over to get it to install. The board finally stopped booting at all (wouldn't even power on to POST). RMAed it and got an...

correct me if i'm wrong, but since the memory controller is on the A64 chips now, doesn't that directly limit the overclock potential? I just sent back a MSI K8T800 board and am waiting for an ASUS SK8V. I didn't go with AOpen because they didn't have the other features i need, like firewire...

i had a lot of problems with my msi k8t800 mobo as well. RMAed it to Newegg and have an Asus in the mail. mine would constantly freeze at POST, freeze if bootable media was in the cd drive, freeze IN the bios screen. it took me something like 4-5 attempts to install windows without it...

EXCELLENT. Thanks for the link. Too few features, but it sounds like the overclock with AGP lock on this thing is a beast. Something to consider.

Let's hope it's not my RAM... Mushkin L1 PC3500 512MB stick. UPDATE: NEWEGG is going to hook me up and let me get an ASUS or ABIT board. NEWEGG rep was incredibly quick polite and understanding. So far, A++ for Newegg, definately doing buisness with them in the future.

I've been tinkering with computer innards for nearly all my life, even back when all my games had to be run through the DOS prompt, so replacing parts or upgrading my comp. was never an issue, however, I had never fully built a computer using parts I selected. Recently I decided to build my...

My MSI board is acting up now too. Hangs all the time on boot. Considering RMAing. If I do I'm sure this will be my first and last mobo from them. -N

I have the same mobo/processor. I was screwing around with my RAM settings and pushed them to 2:2:2:5 and the same thing happened. I had to power down, and switch the CMOS jumper to reset, wait for about 10 secs. WITHOUT powering back on, then switch the jumper back to regular. I got full...