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That's what I originally thought... every article I read online mentions idle temps around 35 and overclocked, full load temps around 55-60 degrees celsius. Now that I've been checking my CPU regularly, however, I notice that even at stock speeds my idle temp is around 48 and at full loads I'm...

I've got an old Slot-1 P3-700 (100mhz fsb) that I've overclocked to 933mhz (133fsb)... with core voltage at 1.80. I've got PC133 ram and the system seems stable, but Motherboard Monitor has shown me that the temp goes as high as 72 degrees celsius under load. The alarm on MBM defaults to 70...

I have a Pentium3-700 (100mhz FSB) with a socket 370 to slot 1 adapter so I can use it in my ASUS P3V4X (Via Apollo 133A) motherboard. I've also got 512 megs of PC133 ram. I wanted to try my hand at overclocking to get a little more juice out of my system while I'm saving up for an upgrade...

I just read a solution over at Tom's Hardware. There is a new converter for socket 370 motherboards to accept Tualatin processors. When they tested it, they even used a slot-1 MB with an Abit Socket 370 to Slot-1 converter. In the process, they upgrade a P3-600 on an Abit motherboard (BX...

Actually, it does support 133mhz FSB (and I'm already using 133 ram). That's the only reason I was considering the upgrade... not only would I gain 300mhz CPU speed but also an additional 33mhz FSB speed. I still need a major upgrade (to a P4), but as a temporary stopgap measure, while waiting...

I have an ASUS P3V4X (slot 1) motherboard with a P3-700 (100mhz FSB) and 512megs of PC133 ram. If I upgrade to a P3-1000 (133mhz FSB) will I notice much difference? Is it possible to upgrade to a P3-1.13 or 1.2 or any of the higher P3's? If the interface is different, can you buy an adapter...

Hmm.. that seems like such an important upgrade to be left out of Intel's motherboards, especially after their announcement that they will be discontinuing support for RDRAM in future motherboards. Is there really a huge (noticeable) difference when you upgrade from PC2100 (266mhz) to PC2700...

So only the SiS chipsets support DDR333 ram natively? Intel and Via don't have anything out that will (for P4's)? How about upcoming chipsets too? Anything announced by Intel that will?

1. If you get a motherboard with integrated video (i.e. Intel 845g) and install an AGP video card, can you use the AGP card as primary video and the integrated chip as secondary video for a dual monitor setup? And to go even further, if the AGP video card supports dual video output, can you then...

I need to upgrade my system really soon. About every 2 years I upgrade and as part of the standard upgrade process, I need a new cpu, motherboard and memory. My old system is a P3-700 with 512megs of PC133 ram running on an Asus P3V4X. I have an Asus GeForce2 GTS Deluxe and will probably get the...