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I installed them and they worked great for me. Increased my 3DMark2001SE about 250 pts.

I'll be the fly in the ointment and recommend passing on the Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I've had one for the last 9 months and it's been only a fair mb and a constant headache. I had to do a voltage mod to get it to run memory at 200MHz. I'd say it's only fair at best. My version was the 1.4 and I guess the v2 is better. It better be. I replaced it with a DFI LanParty NFII Ultra. Kick . Motherboard This board coupled with my ADATA DDR500 memory is absolutely great. It is the only AMD motherboard that will run with all my memory brands: Corsair XMS3000PT2 runs great, Geil PC3200 runs great, ADATA DDR500 PC4000 runs great. This is the only AMD board that challenges my Intel boards for my attention. Check this one out. They have just issued a version B of this mb if you need SATA RAID and mounting holes for water cooling.

haha. Show me any memory that will do CAS2 at 250MHz. Gain some performance? That's truly funny.

Yeah, it's expensive. $323 for 1G (2 512M modules).

Got my new ADATA PC4000 (250MHz) memory today. It'll do 265MHz 1:1 with dual 512M modules in place. Here are my CPU-Z screenshots. What do you think?

You should be able to go much higher than 110fsb. At this fsb your memory is only running at 220MHz. You'll have to keep the multiplier at 24 and inch your fsb up 1 or 2 MHz at a time until you run into trouble. You probably will need to raise your core voltage a little. What motherboard do you have?

You obviously don't know much about overclocking and modern motherboards. Most advise beginning by lowering the multiplier and determining the max fsb for your system. Once that is found, the multiplier is increased, then fsb and multiplier tweaked to find the sweet spot for your system. Also, most newer motherboards, and all good overclocking boards allow you to control frequencies of PCI, memory, AGP either independently of fsb, or in various ratios to fsb, so you can keep your boards, memory and video cards running within specs. Also, with Intel boards, the only way to overclock is to do it with fsb as the multiplier is locked.

As a member of the old farts brigade, I'm rooting for the old lady. In the end, I'll bet she was right to complain.

It's on the German server as well. I've installed it and everything is fine.

Check out the DFI 875Pro LanParty. One hell of a board. Here is one review. DFI 875Pro LanParty

Well, I'm 62 and you need more categories in your poll!

I think you're making a good choice with the Abit board. I've got an Asus A7N8X Deluxe, but if I were buying again, I'd get the N7S Version 2.

Do you get any other clues from the text on the blue screen? It sounds like a driver issue, or DX issue, since you say all games instead of a particular one. What driver are you using? What DX version? I'd suggest reinstalling DirectX (also suggest going to 9a) followed by a reinstallation of the latest 3.4 Catalyst drivers. Another thing to check is your boards handling of AGP frequency. Does your board allow fixing AGP frequency at 66MHz? If so, do this. It helps and makes it so you are not relying on cpu/pci/agp divisors that might not be working right.

Oh boy, a techie trashing ATI drivers. (by the way, I'm a techie too. Want to compare credentials?) Care to give up any more details of your discoveries, or do you just want to throw this in and run. For my take, and I've used 3dfx, Matrox, nVidia, ATI and other cards of all sorts, I find the latest ATI drivers among the best I've used. I do gaming, not multimedia. But from what I've read, the ATI multimedia stuff blows the nVidia multimedia stuff away.

Yes, indeed.