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    Love my 9NPA+ Ultra!

    My first attempt at overclocking and I get a FX-55. My GOD DO NOT BUY THE 3700 SAN DIEGO FOR STOCK SPEED--IT IS NO FASTER THAN A NEWCASTLE 3500, BUT BUY IT FOR THE SERIOUS OVERCLOCKS YOU WILL GET!!!!! System spec: EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra San Diego 3700+ 1 Gig Patriot XBLK (2 x 512MB) eVGA...
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    What do you think?

    I was running a EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra motherboard with 3500+ Newcastle and 1 Gig Patriot XBLK with a Seagate 7200.8 200Gig drive. GeForce 6800GT. Chaintech AV-710, with Klipsch Promedia 2.1's (yeah, it rocks). However, I was not ENTIRELY satsified with the speed increase over my older S754 3200+...
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    OCZ is AWESOME

    Just wanted to let everyone know of my experience with the OCZ PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum Edition series RAM. I bought a 1 Gig dual channel kit (2x512MB sticks) and it is running quite happily and very stable at 2-2-2-6 1T command rate on my EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra mobo with A64 3500+ Newcastle...
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    Man, did I learn something about heatsinks today

    In my quest for an ever-cooler system, I picked up a Thermaltake K450 dual-heatpipe heatsink/fan that is good all the way up to FX-55 for my A64 3500+ Newcastle. Upon receiving this thing ($30) at NewEgg, there were no instructions and that is kind of what this learning experience is all about...
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    My final word on the Foxconn nF4 Ultra board

    Well, despite the good reviews and my initial excitement around this board (not to mention ChineseDemocracyGNR's warnings), I had to replace the Foxconn board. It simply has VRMs that totally suck. It undervolts everything. My DIMM voltage was 2.48 volts, my VCORE was 1.43 (I use Newcastle...
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    Got the Foxconn NF4 Ultra Board System Up!

    For any of those who are interested in my opinions of this board, the Foxconn Winfast NF4 Ultra PCI-E S939 Mobo, please read on! The following is my setup: Foxconn Winfast NF4UK8AA-EKRS mobo Newcastle A64 3500+ 1 Gig (512 x2) PC-3200 Patriot XBL eVGA GeForce 6800GT PCI-E Seagate 7200.8...
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    Chaintech AV-710 in digital mode

    Hey all: Who here has the Chaintech AV-710 or Gainward Hollywood card in 24bit digital mode via SPDIF to an external DAC? I intend to hook my Chaintech up to a Denon 1705 via toslink, and have a couple of niggling questions: 1. The QSound option found in the 442a driver set--does this...
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    EPoX 8KDA3I--Great Value Mobo

    For those looking for a no-frills value board for $65, NewEgg has the EPoX 8KDA3I available. I just completed a second build using this board. Like the first time around, no issues. Very stable board. Everything works perfectly. Used A64 2800+, single double sided stick of 512MB Patriot...
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    Unbelievable

    <rant> I'll tell ya, it is totally frickin' unreal. I have been hawking mwave, NewEgg, and ZZF for over 2 weeks now, since I have finally decided on the sound card I want (Chaintech AV-710), and when it comes into stock, it literally is out of stock again with 30 minutes--literally! Is this...
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    Sound quandry

    I have resolutely refused to use Creative cards since the SoundBlaster Live! POS that gave me so much trouble -- and not just with old VIA southbridges either. BUT, I am now building a new rig, which has integrated Realtek 7 Channel AC97 (850 codec) built in, and have been using Turtle Beach...
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    GeForce 6800GT PCI-E or X800XL

    Ok, which would you folks go for? I know the 6800GT will cost me about $100 more, but it *is* faster. Help me decide....please make the case.
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    Foxconn nF4 Ultra board reviewed at ClubOC

    http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/motherboards/foxconn/Winfastnf4/index.htm Basically, they flesh out what I have been saying here. 1. Highly stable. 2. Crappy overclocker. So, if you don't care about overclocking, this is a good board to get! This makes the fifth review of this board...
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    Anyone using the Foxconn nF4 Ultra Board?

    I have had my eye on the Foxconn nF4 Ultra board for some time now, and it has a couple very positive reviews up (OCWorkbench, Neoseeker), and I am looking to make the buy/not buy decision on this mobo. Any realworld experience with this board from someone on the forum would help. Please post...
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    K8T890 Done Right

    http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/slk890pro939/index.html For all of the nay-sayers about the VIA chipset, this should set you correct. As you can see, and from the Legion Hardware review as well, VIA/SOLTEK has a SERIOUS contender here. True, the nForce4 has more features...
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    nForce4 -- What driver????

    Well, now that I am going for a nForce4 Ultra mobo, I am researching the drivers and the Unified 5.10 driver does not support the nForce4 Ultra, but this is the latest available driver on the nVidia website. Ok....so what driver am I supposed to use?
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    So...why no reviews of the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

    Folks, this is weird. Asus is not exactly an obscure brand, and has at this moment the only shipping K8T890 PCI Express based mobo out there. And there are NO reviews. I decided to chance the Asus name--I know, probably a bad decision--and bought one. I have yet to install it, as I am...
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    Will I have trouble....?

    I building a new PC, configured as follows: Athlon64 3200+, Soltek nVidia nForce250Gb chipset motherboard 512Megs OCZ RAM, 2-3-2-5 XFX GeForce 6600GT AGP Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound card Hitachi Deskstar 120Gig SATA NEC DVD 16X Dual Layer In-Win 7 in 1 USB card reader (takes a 3.5"...