- Apr 20, 2003
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I was screwing around with overclocking settings in the bios on thursday night and I got a little carried away and killed my P4 3.06Ghz. Not exactly sure how since I didn't raise the voltage, only the FSB, but I guess it must have overheated very quickly.
Old Specs:
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz w/ HT
ASRock P4V88 Motherboard
4x512MB DDR400 Ram
Sapphire Radeon X800GTO 256MB GDDR3 Video Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 Tuner
Avermedia A180 HD Tuner
1x320GB Western Digital SATA Hard Drive
1x300GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drive
1x200GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drive
1x200GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive
Lite-On 16x DVD+-RW
Windows Vista Home Premium
Anyway, I was in the market for a new system so I had already been looking (my previous thread) but since I was without my primary computer I quickly decided to order all of the parts for a new pc that friday morning before class so it would ship by friday instead of monday.
Here is what I got:
Core2Duo 1.86GHz
ECS SLIT-A (V5.1) Motherboard
pqi TURBO 2GB DDR2 667 Ram
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1650XT HDCP Video Card
I didn't do a whole lot of research before hand like I normally do so I'm just wondering if I'll have problems, especially with Vista. I hate ECS but I got that mobo because it had: 2 IDE instead of 1 (which I need for my hard drives and DVD burner), 4 ram slots (so I can add another 2GB in the future), and both optical and coax digital out (which my ancient Santa Cruz doesn't have). The next board that had all of that jumped up to around $200 or so.
I purposely got the Radeon X1650XT over an Nvidia card because I knew that their Vista drivers are horrible at the moment. What I forgot though was that the nForce is Nvidia. Anyone know how the nForce drivers are in vista? Are they as bad as the video drivers? Also will the nForce chipset play nice with my ati card?
Also, is this card a step down compared to my X800GTO? Even if it is, I still really wanted the dual DVI and the HDCP since I have an HDTV hooked up as well and will probably get an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive in the future.
Old Specs:
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz w/ HT
ASRock P4V88 Motherboard
4x512MB DDR400 Ram
Sapphire Radeon X800GTO 256MB GDDR3 Video Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 Tuner
Avermedia A180 HD Tuner
1x320GB Western Digital SATA Hard Drive
1x300GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drive
1x200GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drive
1x200GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive
Lite-On 16x DVD+-RW
Windows Vista Home Premium
Anyway, I was in the market for a new system so I had already been looking (my previous thread) but since I was without my primary computer I quickly decided to order all of the parts for a new pc that friday morning before class so it would ship by friday instead of monday.
Here is what I got:
Core2Duo 1.86GHz
ECS SLIT-A (V5.1) Motherboard
pqi TURBO 2GB DDR2 667 Ram
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1650XT HDCP Video Card
I didn't do a whole lot of research before hand like I normally do so I'm just wondering if I'll have problems, especially with Vista. I hate ECS but I got that mobo because it had: 2 IDE instead of 1 (which I need for my hard drives and DVD burner), 4 ram slots (so I can add another 2GB in the future), and both optical and coax digital out (which my ancient Santa Cruz doesn't have). The next board that had all of that jumped up to around $200 or so.
I purposely got the Radeon X1650XT over an Nvidia card because I knew that their Vista drivers are horrible at the moment. What I forgot though was that the nForce is Nvidia. Anyone know how the nForce drivers are in vista? Are they as bad as the video drivers? Also will the nForce chipset play nice with my ati card?
Also, is this card a step down compared to my X800GTO? Even if it is, I still really wanted the dual DVI and the HDCP since I have an HDTV hooked up as well and will probably get an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive in the future.
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