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[Mikki]

I had to tie-strap my 40mm fan onto the hs of my BE7, screws wouldn't bite....

 

[maxSe]

Yeah, both BH7 & IT7 has their NB HS's held down via similar to spring type clips that hooks onto 2 hooks. This is basically my BIGGEST complaint with these Abit board... There're no fr*#king mounting holes around the NB... :disgust:

I got around to intall my Vantec Nexus, and it tells me the NB shoots upto ~45C while looping 3dmark 03 (idles ~38C). Wonder I should stick another fan on top of that sucker...

Btw, you guys notice that about 90% of our threads seem to just take on another topic entirely...? heh...

 

[THUGSROOK]

Btw, you guys notice that about 90% of our threads seem to just take on another topic entirely...?

yep
np tho

 

[maxSe]

heh... thanks bud... Speaking of going astray on topic... just noticed that you and Mikki are now running W98SE (or were you guys always running it...?). Any particular reason?

 

[THUGSROOK]

ive always been running it ~ i forced Mikki to re-try it, and im pretty sure hes sold on it too.

my Win98se is completely unpatched and IE & IE integration free
its a nice small and easy OS.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

I always thought you ran it because of the unethical EULA Microsoft put out for XP

 

[THUGSROOK]

i dont use WXP for alot of reasons

i will be using WXP for HT testing tho when the time comes

 

[SinfulWeeper]

I'll be using 2K

 

[THUGSROOK]

if i get hooked on HT im gonna have a real delema

 

[oldfart]

98?? Yeah, its light weight, but man does it have a TON of shortcomings compared to 2K/XP. My only complaint with XP is the Teletubby interface. You can turn most of it off to make it look almost like 2K. I'll probably stick with 2K until I need XP for HT, then I'll be forced to "upgrade" to XP.

I guess it depends on what you use your PC for. Win98 dont cut it for me.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

I thought 2K was SMP capable?
Dasm... I hope I do not need to upgrade to WXP...

 

[THUGSROOK]

could always try out Win Server2003

 

[SinfulWeeper]

 

[oldfart]

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper
I thought 2K was SMP capable?
Dasm... I hope I do not need to upgrade to WXP...

It does support SMP but not Hyperthreading according to Intel. I'm sure it could with a patch. It looks like its a Microsoft "decision" to not support Win2K (force an XP upgrade). I would like to see someone try it and see if it works,

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
could always try out Win Server2003

Don't think you would like it too much

 

[SinfulWeeper]

It does support SMP but not Hyperthreading according to Intel. I'm sure it could with a patch. It looks like its a Microsoft "decision" to not support Win2K (force an XP upgrade). I would like to see someone try it and see if it works,

According to M$'s life cycle (whatever it was called) they will need to do patches until q4 2004.
So we will keep on seeing SP's just like we did with NT even though 2K was released.
I see no reason why Microsoft would not patch it.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Just read the link. It looks like an Intel patch and not Microsofts if I am not mistaken.
It is a wild card if Intel decides to put a W2K patch out .

 

[oldfart]

I'm not gonna sweat it. I dont have HT now, so its no biggie. Once I get a HT CPU, I'll go to XP if need be. Gotta move with the times.

 

[THUGSROOK]

i thought this was a ddr thread?