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  1. LOL I absolutely agree. Go ahead and put those suckers in and just tell us your results. I remember my vantec tornado days...I had that fan in a small form factor case and that sucker was LOUD, but gave awesome cooling for my tiny case.
  2. Well, it was actually my HT Frequency setting. I had it too high. I set it down to 2x and now I am at 2.78GHz (309MHz x 9) on my Athlon 64 3200+. Memory is back to 2-3-3-5 1T at DDR266. My new 3dMark05 score with the overclock is 11,189!
  3. I may be wrong about my video cards, but I figured my under clock would have to do something with the video cards and BUS being hand in hand, maybe the cards don't like anything above 240MHz FSB???. Heck if I know, when I get home later today i'll do more testing. As for the power supply, it is brand new out of the box and i did monitor it after i overclocked it to 2.4GHz. The rails were fine idle and under load. Who knows what it could be?
  4. Well everyone, here's what I did: 1. Upgraded MSI 6600GT video card with dual SLI MSI-7600GT's 2. Upgraded power supply from Aspire 500W to 600W 3. Upgraded case from Aspire X-Dreamer II to NZXT Lexa So upon booting the new system it wouldn't get past the post screen. That immediately told me my overclock didn't like my video cards. So now I went from 2.8GHz on my Athlon 64 3200+ to 2.4GHz. That is the most stable I can get it on stock voltage at 1.4v. Any higher and the system will hang every other bootup. I'll keep trying to fiddle with my voltage settings and maybe find the right spot, but now I am thinking either motherboard upgrade to an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe or a better processor. Right now I am thinking motherboard just for the fact that the way my ABIT motherboard is setup, I can't plug in my front USB header cables onto my motherboard because the DUAL VIDEO CARDS HANG OVER THE USB HEADER INPUT ON THE MOTHERBOARD!!!! Stupid design by ABIT. Gaahhh!!!! On the bright side, my 3dMark05 score jumped from 4,006 to 10,454!!!
  5. I figured I'd get some input from you guys first. I'm afraid that the X2 Manchester core won't overclock as well as my Venice 3200+. I figured I'd save myself the $150 and skip buying the new processor and spend it on something that can give me real performance improvement results. I'm about to purchase two XFX 7600GT's to go SLI but if I skip buying the processor, I just might get dual 7800GT's. Maybe in the end i'll wait for the FX processor prices to drop.
  6. Well everyone, I have been looking to replace my Athlon 64 3200+ for while and I am looking for a dual core Athlon 64 processor. Naturally I looked at the X2 3800+ for its affordability. My question is, test after test in review after review, the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ performed the same as (or worse in some cases) than a single-core 64 3800+. My problem is that my overclocked Athlon 64 3200+ runs much faster than a single-core 3800+, so I can't really see the performance increase in buying an X2 3800+. Most reviews state that the better performance comes in the form of smoother usability of the operating system and applications with the dual core. The review conclusions all give it thumbs up and recommendations, but I myself don't see the justification of spending $150. Can anyone out there give some insight in the performance of the X2 3800+ and its overclockability? Will my Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.78GHz perform better than an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ overclocked? EDIT: My usage is moderate gaming, running music software when the computer is on, and daily internet usage. Some photoshop usage but not hardcore editing. I'm not sure if I will see any performance increase by going to an X2 3800+ processor for my usage.
  7. I agree on the of the quality of the capcitors used. Abit now uses Japanese Rubicon capacitors, and for that fact they found it necessary to even advertise it on their motherboard boxes! (something to be very proud of after numerous capacitor failures, something I think most MB manufacturers suffered from at one time or another!). I also not only read the reviews from just websites alone. I learned that after I read an article on the video card manufacturers doing the same thing with paying the reviewer(s) to rave on their video card in the reviews. I've been on the ASUS forums for the last 3 years (around the same time I signed up on this site), and I read the many many problems with the chipset fans dying. I was actually dissapointed at ASUS for such horrible quality for the first time. I went to the ABIT forums to read up on the problems users were experiencing with the ABIt AN8-SLI boards. IMO, and of course its just IMO, the ABIT seemed to be a bit more versatile and for a bit less, came with the passive cooler on the chipset. If I bought the ASUS A8N-SLI and had to purchase a passive cooler for the chipset that would have ran me into the $160 territory easy. For my $129, I am completely happy with the board. It's actually rare that my expectations are surpassed on computer component I buy, but the 3200+ venice with this board overshot my expectations. I read up on the DFI's and Neo4's, and they are VERY nice boards, but with my pockets, they were just a bit out of my price range. ( I also learned my lesson with the K7S board..... )
  8. Are you completely sure on this? When I boot up, my BIOS string indicates an "A1" which means my motherboard is an actual ABIT motherboard, not manufactured by Hsing Tech. I haven't found anything that indicates they are an actual division of Hsing Tech, but even if they are, it doesn't necessarily mean that the quality of the ABIT boards are on the lesser scale of Hsing Tech's "generic board" manufacturers. ABIT's quality control standards are far better than those of PCChips or ECS. You're comparing apples to oranges. I've read review after review and came to the conclusion ABIT was a great buy. I would like to know how the Q-Otes would "die" on me as it is a passive cooler? Is there a time frame for when these Q-OTES coolers die, as in 3 months ? A week? 6 months?
  9. I've ALWAYS been a die-hard ASUS fan for the longest time. But when it came time for me to upgrade to 64-bit, I wanted something under $140, so I chose the ABIT line of boards, only for the fact that ASUS boards were having MANY problems with the chipset fans going bad and frying motherboards once the chipset overheated. It happened to my friends ASUS board and I had to research and think long and hard what was the best bang for buck. I decided to go with the ABIT AN8-SLI, for the fact that it uses the silent Q-OTES heatpipe cooling for the chipset, has SLI, and it cost $129!!! Plus, as you can see in my sig, I overclocked the hell out of my Athlon 64 3200+ processor. So for $129, I'd recommend the ABIT AN8-SLI. I've also heard great things about the MSI Neo4 boards, but I've never had any experience with them. I'm more than happy with my ABIT AN8-SLI.
  10. I'm using the Thermalright XP-90C for cooling. Worth EVERY penny!!! I turned the vcore down to 1.575, so far so good.
  11. Also, anyone know why WCPUID reads my processor as a Socket 754 Platform?!?!?!? I updated with some screenshots.
  12. I actually tried 2-3-4-6 and it was still causing me problems. I'll try the 2.5-3-3-7 timings tomorrow, that looks promising. I am still amazed at how high my clock kept going and going until it froze on me after about 5 minutes of usage at 2.83GHz. Oh, and I looked EVERYWHERE for your Thermalright SLK-948u heatsink (in your sig), but I couldn't find an online store that sold it anymore. I absolutely loved my SLK-900 that I used on my Athlon XP 3000+, and I wanted a similar one for my socket 939 processor, those SLK heatsinks are the best IMO. I settled for the XP-90c and I couldn't be happer though. I also almost went with the Neo4 board but price of course kept me out of that range of boards. I was skepticle of using the ABIT boards because i've been a loooong time ASUS user, but with the problems of the chipset fans plauging users (including my best friend who lost his MB because of the fan dying) I went with the ABIT AN8-SLI and its great. Thanks for the advice.
  13. Well you can read my specs below. I am running stable at 2.79GHz, 310x9. This is soooo much better than my 2.5GHz overclock on my "old" Athlon XP 3000+. The speeds are just unreal and all at only 1.6vcore, these Athlon 64's just amaze me. I got all my new parts this past friday and I spent the whole night trying to find that sweet spot. I actually got it to run stable at 2.83GHz but I had to clock my memory down to DDR200 speeds and it hurt it's bandwidth a bit. But at 2.79 I got it right where I want it. Anyone else want to share your Athlon 64 3200+ overclock?
  14. Hey everyone, been a while since I posted. I have yet to convert to 64-bit, i just can't let my 32-bit baby go...anyway here's my trouble. I have an Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.5GHz (192x13), 1.80Vcore on an Asus A7V8X board. I can only get that overclock with my memory set at stock timings in the BIOS (2.5-4-4-10). I am using 1GB PC3200 Patriot High Performance Stick stock at 2-3-2-5. Is there any way I can get the memory bandwidth faster by altering the 2.5-4-4-10 setting in the BIOS by maybe changing the memory voltage? Sisoft Sandra benchmarks my memory at roughly 2600GB/s and I'm thinking it can be faster. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
  15. Now I know....I definitely will keep this in mind in the near future when I go looking for a new motherboard. My last 3 motherboards were all ASUS and I've always been satisfied (no I didn't fry them, they were all upgrades!)... Thanks for the info...
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