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    Official Athlon 64 X2 preorder/instock thread...

    I hit DFI street a couple of times a day, myself. And yes, the moderators are getting kinda burnt. I remember around the first of the year, the forum still had a fresh feel to it. Now, it's getting kind of flat. But, it has to be a tough job and they probably should take a break from it and let...
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    *Official* Venice Core Price Guide *semi-updated 4/27*

    Sparco has the SD and Venice in stock
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    *Official* Venice Core Price Guide *semi-updated 4/27*

    Cool! Does Fedex overnight come in on Saturday?
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    *Official* Venice Core Price Guide *semi-updated 4/27*

    Joe Did the 3700+ make it in today?
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    *Official* Venice Core Price Guide *semi-updated 4/27*

    Monarchjoe I just checked Monarch site and the 3700+ now show 19th of May. It was the 6th of May this morning. Does this mean that the second shipment of 3700+ has been delayed, or that the second shipment is gone already? I checked my preorder status and it still shows at the warehouse.
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    *Official* Venice Core Price Guide *semi-updated 4/27*

    Joe, if we didn't make the immediate shipment of the SD 3700+, do you have any info on when the next batch will be available?
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    *Official* Venice Core Price Guide *semi-updated 4/27*

    Someone over at Extreme Systems has gotten one today. And from A US retailer. http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=834920&posted=1#post834920
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    Onboard SATA CPU utilisation

    what are you using for bench? I was getting 32-36% with an older copy of HDTach. Downloaded the newest version and now get 2-3% Cpu Utilization.
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    A8N-SLI VCore BIOS Modding?

    mofrack No problem. I most certainly am not here to put the hate down on ASUS. I STILL have a box with an ASUS CUSL2 mb that has a PIII 850 o'clocked to 1.2GHz. I use it as a media server for the upstairs bedrooms. I have done nothing but put bigger drives in it for the last four years. Who...
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    Kensai Just for info, have you tried your Winchester on the MSI? And, how do you like your ATI mb?
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    Not everyone with a Winchester core CPU can get even 2.5 at the 1.5 vcore. 2.7GHz is in the top 1% on all the Overclock databases that are available to peruse on the www. I am glad if you can, but don't be making that statement just because you have one and it gets a good overclock at low...
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    Big Bunny As I posted earlier, I did get 180mhz higher (2674 to 2854) by doing a volt mod on my MSI SLI, taking it from 1.53-1.55 to 1.62-1.64 vcore as measured by several software monitors. I do watercool, so only seen 2 degrees C increase in CPU temp. I do the same thing to cars. Buy fast...
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    Amen Brother donnelly. testify! After doing the vcore mod, my bitch about the board is done. Should not of had to do it, but so far it's good. I am watercooling the cpu, chipset and both 6800gt's, so I felt comfortable putting the 1.68 volts to it. Still have a DFI coming this week, tho. Too...
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    FastEddie and Tanclearas I don't have a problem using hacked bios'. Or doing mods to the hardware. But, I actually do appreciate the info he put in this post. I wouldn't take just one man's word about a problem like this, but this isn't the first time I read it. I will pass on the ASUS unless...
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    Tanclearas Well, lucky you. Here you are, overclocking, and then giving guys who are overclocking sh!t. That is a close minded and arrogant attitude. In fact, you sound like a 10 year old. Go play with the rest of the little boys and leave the overclocking to the real men who don't mind...
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    No current bios allows for more than 1.55vcore on A8N SLI or MSI!

    Guys, I don't have an ASUS NF4, But have had 2 Gigabyte SLI and had 2 MSI SLI (still have one), I gotta tell you, the NF4 is far from being mature. However I do agree with Housecat. The MSI Platinium SLI board has the same limitation. No matter what you set the bios for, you can't get over...
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    MSI Diamond beta bios 5.04

    This is supposedly a new bios that you can get from the MSI Diamond Club forum. It has more voltage for vdimm. Does anyone have this they would like to share? It would be appreciated. For the 7100NMS board.
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    Firmware update for Maxtor NCQ drives.... fix nf4 issues?

    Are you loading the nVidia IDE drivers from the 6.39 drivers? I have a MSI SLI board and a Diamodmax 10 250gb not in a RAID configuartion, but just SATA. I wasn't loading the IDE drivers (never liked them in previous versions). I had to reinstall twice because of data corruption. To get it to...
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    Another SLI Motherboard Round-UP

    That was a terrible review. In the overclocking experience section, they didn't even mention the MSI. And, with all the attention that the problem with MSI and the new Winchester cores, they are still using the FX-55 CPU to test these boards with. Do they think everybody has the cash to buy a...
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI BIOS

    One of the reasons I got rid of my Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI was the lack of .5x multi's. And the big jump from 1.55 to 1.65 in the vcore setting was bothering me. If you have your mem set at 200, it will be sync'ed with the fsb. Set it for a lower value (183) and then up your fsb until the mem...
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    New Winchester Issue - Won't post past 219 FSB on MSI Neo 4 - possibly others

    Heinrich I was tweaking around on my board and found that, at leat in my case, it will post consistantly at 230 fsb if I set the HT to 2x. It will post most of the time at 240, but may have to reset a couple of times. This is too strange. Also, when in windows, Central Brain Identifier and...
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    New Winchester Issue - Won't post past 219 FSB on MSI Neo 4 - possibly others

    I agree with Heinrich. I posted a similiar problem in Gigabtye section. The first guy to reply had to get a gouge in on "why overclock you moron" and "you didn't research enough". I just don't get why people feel they need to second guess everybody just because they don't agree. Just close...
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI buyers, please read

    That is the onboard voltage regulation. There are USUALLY 3 devices (MOSFETS) that are tied together, thus an "array". In this case, they are to regulate the voltage applied to the CPU socket and do the main job of keeping the vcore stable. These things work hard, and the more stress on the...
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI buyers, please read

    RoomRaider All due respect, your reply is just another one of those close minded tirades on "why would anyone want to overclock". Regardless of what you think (and it's your right to think the way you want), it's my money, my equipment, and I'll do what I want with it. And trying to explain...
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    *** Official GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI nForce4 Thread ***

    just as a precaution, you should read this thread. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1531758&enterthread=y You should really consider actively cooling your MOSFET array, especially if you are going to SLI and overclock.
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI buyers, please read

    Zip Zoom Fly has RMA'd both Gigabyte boards with Full refund, and shipping on this last one (still had to pay 12.50 to ship first one, myself). Ordered MSI and hope to have by the weekend. We'll see how it goes.
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI buyers, please read

    Here's the story, a long one. 2 weeks ago, I built a SLI system using all NEW parts. A GIGABYTE GA-K8NXP-SLI, AMD64 3500+, Mushkin 3200 LVL2 with TCCD chips, and a Rosewill 550W Rp550 in a Sunbeam Transformer case. I started tweaking it in to see what it would do. Everything was going FAIRLY...
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    Performance problems with Asus A8N-SLI mobo

    ahurtt said it once, already. don't get the pci bus mixed up with the pci-express bus. I don't have the asus, i have the gigabyte. there isn't a pci bus speed adjust in my bios. But, I do have a pci-express adjustment. It should be set fo 100mhz, not 33mhz. If you have your PCI-E bus set for...
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    Philips Acoustic Edge OEM 39.95 w/MIR

    Bummer. If box has a upc, I will try anyway, but you are probably right.:o
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    Philips Acoustic Edge OEM 39.95 w/MIR

    My First Post Order card for 59.95 from: http://www.computergate.com/cgi-bin/search?sn=41846695893642&ty=nx&ct=&ds=&pc=&mf=&lp=&sq=C3PC01&hp=&on=&is=&ky=16&cn=21 Bizrate.com gives them an 8.5 rating get 20.00 rebate coupon good until 30 sep from...