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Couldn't find a fix, Blake. There's a mention of the problem when benchmarking processor speed, but eTesting Labs' suggestion to ignore the error message doesn't work. However, I worked around it by changing the Test Settings - Error Handling to continue instead of stopping after a retry.

Tea :profright: :profleft: Tannin :roll:

I realize it's an obsolete benchmark, but has anyone noticed that Winbench 99 Business Diskmark spits the dummy with Athlons over about 2150MHz? I don't know the exact point, just that 2200MHz and up causes it to have a wobbly at the end - about interrupts and changes in CPU speed.

Filling both DIMM slots doesn't appear to make any difference to onboard 3D performance, Buck. Not surprising if it's only single channel. :( Would I be right in concluding that the onboard video hits performance more than it should?

I thought that nForce 1 was dual channel DDR-SDRAM, but it doesn't seem to make any difference on this board. Is there some secret to it, or has Asus short-changed me? Are there any other settings that Buck, e_dawg, etc could suggest for smooth operation of this board? BTW Buck, I know you use...

Ditto, ditto, ditto ... :D

Hysterical! Now if only we could hear him saying it out loud ...

I very much doubt that this report from The Times will find its way into the US media. Please don't be offended, but this view of the US military is quite common in the Australian armed forces as well. What is perhaps troubling, is that Australia and the UK are America's closest allies.

He meant instead of packet writing. CopyTo creates a shortcut on the desktop for you. All the user has to do is insert a CD-RW and double-click the shortcut. The software synchronizes the CD with your preprogrammed selection. Sounds like just the ticket for your brother - all you need to do is...

So true.

200W would be plenty - for a single midrange CPU and one drive.

I can't help but notice that the Athlon XP1700s I bought have different coolers from the XP2400s. Firstly, the cooler is bigger: 77mm vs 68mm fin length, or +13%. The fan has a shroud, mainly to adapt the 60mm fan to the 77mm heatsink, but IMO shrouds are a good thing. The fan blades have...

How about a 100:1 advantage in capacity? BTW, I'm planning to construct a 20 drive cluster of Raptors.

Check the dimensions. It's not a standard minitower. 60mm fans don't have to be noisy - you're just used to the ridiculous high speed versions favoured on CPU coolers. The CD drive is nowhere near the PSU. :roll: Frankly, I think you're talking through your posterior. 'Small' PCs have been a...

Although I prefer midi-towers for most applications, I do feel they waste a lot of space. Searching for an alternative, I've become all fired up over the "Tiny Tower" range from Yeong Yang. Like Shuttle's SFF (Small Form Factor) PCs, they only have room for one each of FDD, HDD and CD/DVD...

I've seen someone mention an AMD rated limit of one-point-nine-something (1.92?), but I haven't downloaded the AMD processor PDF to check, so it could be just their imagination. Abit limited their boards to 1.85V, for whatever reason, although other boards can go much higher. Anandtech...

Ummm, I'm all out of decent RAM; the nice memory supplier couldn't give me anything I wanted last week. :( So had to run asynchronously with PC2100. :cry: To date, I've managed to refrain from spending US$200 on a pair of 512MB DDR400 sticks. :roll:

Sorry, forgot to mention I used a mix of FSB and multiplier increases. The default multiplier for the XP1700 is 11, and I was unable to increase it past 12.5. Note also that the Epox FSB settings are very slightly conservative - I read the results from diagnostic tools. 12.5 x 164 (164.9) =...

At 2200MHz, CPU temp is reported as 41C after running stuff like 3DMark. Doubtless it would rise a couple more degrees with Prime or similar. Oh yeah, ambient was about 23C.

My understanding is that EasyTune doesn't change the PCI divider, thereby making it largely useless? In any case, can you autostart it at boot?

I bought some Athlons Friday, including two XP1700+ at US$60 each. Here's my overclocking results with one in an Epox 8RDA+ (nForce 2), topped with a Falcon Rock II cooler. Standard frequency = 1466MHz (PR1700) At default voltage (1.63V reported) = 2061MHz (~PR2500) At 1.70V (1.74V) = 2161MHz...

You left out Opera: "Copy image address" or "Copy link address".

I've read that the latest versions of this board have replaced the dual DIP switch with a single switch to control the FSB range. That is, you can no longer select 100/133/166MHz, but only 100/Other. Or is it the other way round? I found seemingly hundreds of clueless individuals with the...

Does anyone know? I seem to recall LiamC being unhappy with the 40GB version as well?

Okay, obviously you're reading a different link to the one I am. :-? In my universe, the Anandtech benchmarks read as follows: Test XP2800 P4 2800 AMD/Intel Content Creation 44.8 45.4 -1.3% Business 34.0 32.0 +6.3% DiVX MPEG4...

The table on Anandtech is flat wrong. That's not maximum dissipation, but the figure Intel provides as a design guide to a minimum thermal solution. Until recently, the typical dissipation of Tbreds has been higher than it could be because Suspend during Idle (or whatever the hell it's called)...

Different temperatures on completely different chips means absolutely nothing. The smaller Athlon also has a smaller contact patch, so it's logical to expect a higher temperature if everything else was equal (which it isn't). In actual fact, the P4 is more susceptible to overheating than the...

Sysmark 2002 was comprehensively discredited last year. If you're going to quote Anandtech, at least use a more up to date article: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1746&p=11 The Athlon XP2800 appears to win slightly more benchmarks than the P4 2800, although the difference in many...

Never seen it. Your hardware's crap. :)

Mercutio, Do you mean that the first one you tried hit 2167MHz? :o

AFAIK, you still need a motherboard that can "unlock" the CPU. nForce 2 boards as well as other boards from Epox (and Abit?) can do this. I optimistically tried a Gigabyte KT400, but it was no go. :(

Is it just me, or is Spire completely blowing away all competitors? (no pun intended) Maybe they employ one or two real engineers? I just noticed the upcoming KestrelKing II (SP708B3). If their thermal resistance claim of 0.28C/W is to be believed, this is the mother of all air coolers. And...

I notice that Digit Life compared these boards when they reviewed the Intel 845G chipset (i.e. the Gigabyte GA-7VKML and a Leadtek implementation of nForce 420). (Caution - the benchmark page of that review causes both Opera and Mozilla to hang on my PC.) The results confirmed what I'd seen...

Ummm, which one are you talking about? The Gigabyte KM266 or the Asus nForce 420?

You're happy with laptop drive performance? :eekers:

I've become disillusioned with Gary Morgan's polls - he was miles out with the last federal election. For the record, I don't believe the questions in his poll were properly framed, but more significantly, it was a telephone poll and is consequently unreliable. Here are the results from...

In particular, Gigabyte GA-7VKML. There's also Shuttle and ECS boards kicking around with this chipset. It appears to be KT266A with integrated Savage 8 :roll: graphics. I'm also curious about low-cost nForce 1 implementations such as Asus A7N266-VM. I saw one review that suggested stability...

Working hard, I see, Clocker? :mrgrn: I'm pretty sure I only got to 3 under ... :(

Unfortunately, I'd have to agree with Blakerwry. From memory, the first 80mm fan that ever failed on me was a Sunon. I didn't mention my complaints about their 80mm fans, but they exist alright. Again, excessive vibration (even without Magnetic Levitation) was the killer. In particular, I was...

That would be a lot of trouble to go to just to shoot poxy 40mm fans ...

No. :-?

This is a thread for people to share their experiences with different cooling fans; a sort of group therapy where you can pillory brands or models that caused you pain and suffering. There's a lot of hot air in fan specifications and claims. Air flow always seems to be overstated and noise...

I just used a Spire Falcon Rock II (get it right, chaps!) on a Thoroughbred XP2400+. It overclocked from 2GHz to 2.25GHz without breaking a sweat. The socket temperature sensor said 41C (106F) with a room temperature of about 24C (75F). I saw similar readings on a different brand of motherboard...

I would have thought that a pure KT133A solution would perform better than KT266A talking to SDRAM. Does anyone know?

It's Shuttle's fault because it's an undocumented variant. When Mercutio bought it, he had a reasonable expectation that it would support both types of DRAM (thanks to their website). It's doubtful that his supplier realized what they were getting either.

I have two of the Legend PC2700 sticks (256MB each). A customer decided he wanted 512MB instead of 256MB, so I decided to use them in a Gigabyte 7VAX (KT400) instead. Guess what? In this board, they won't work even at 133MHz! :boom: The PC posts alright, but any attempt to run (or install)...

This is a caution mainly for Australian readers, although the product concerned is exported to a number of countries. Legend PC2700 DDR-SDRAM modules are currently incompatible with Epox 8RDA+ (nForce 2) motherboards when run at their rated speed of 166MHz. Legend is working on the problem...

I'll second the vote of confidence in HEC.

How about Zalman?

The article is only good as garden fertilizer. Interestingly, the Epox does have the jumper, and it's the first thing I tried when the 8RDA+ here wouldn't post after excessive overclocking. However, it didn't resolve the problem! Perhaps the jumper only controls the FSB and not the memory...