I was wondering if you guys thought it be smart if i took of the
onboard fan, becase it is soooo loud, and replaced it either with a
heat sink or a heat sink with a fan (if i have enough room).
Will it hurt the chipset??

I haven't been able to find any formal reviews online for the fairly new
A8V-E SE mobo:
http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=576&l1=3&l2=15&l3=143
I understand that it does a better job with dual-core CPUs than the older

assembling my new system...
pentium d 930
asus p5ld2 deluxe
antec p180 case

ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the
system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you
responded to a problem I had.
Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days

I have an ASUS P4G8X motherboard with  an Intel P4 3.06 GHz processor,
1 GB of Mushkin PC2100 memory and a GeForce 4 5600 256 MB video card.
I want to squeeze a little more life from this system before returning
to the bleeding edge.  My immediate problem is that the video card

Just purchased a a8n sli premium when I use the ntune utility I get a
message
"Warning your pci clock is currently set to track the ht bus. if you adjust
the clock for the ht bus, the pci bus clock will change as well. Please

Hello,
I have an ASUS P5RD1-V motherboard that I am having a bit of trouble
with.  I've added a PCI-Express video card (an ASUS Extreme128 MB
N6600) to the motherboard.  The PC boots up fine.  Where I run into

This might be a video card problem, but I'm posting here because my
computer didn't have problems on my previous motherboard (P4S533).
Current setup:
P5P800

We're getting a new computer to build for mother.
The mobo we're going to use is an Asus A8N5X.
Which way is better?
(PC-3200) 512MB x 2 dual - total 1GB

I would like to buy a sata-2 drive sor the a8n5x board. i know that it
is only a sata-1 board but in the bios 602 there is an option to
enable support of these drive.
should i buy one or will a incounter trouble???

Hey all, I built a system for a buddys security system. the software on the
system is proprietary and basically its used to take continuous snapshots
from the 15 cameras or so all around his liquor store. The modem that came
with the system has a problem, apparantly. He cant dial ...

Anyone Know Why? I turn my PC off every night. I live in a windy area
with a lot of dead trees hanging over the power lines.
MB KA7 (or similar) AMD Duron.
Monitor is 5 yrs old 14" Samsung.

i`ve difficulties with my ASUS A7N8X und a separate RAM Module: There are
reboots, bluescreens and sometimes the systems locks up completely. The
Problems also occurs if Linux is runnig, so it`s not a Windows/driver problem....
After several test, i removed a 512 MB RAM Module and ...

I have a A8n32-sli mainboard with a
Plextor px-716sa (serial ata) burner.
When I start up the system, after it has been
turned off for more than about  30 minutes

I have 2  256MB PC3200 DDR (184 pins) RAM modules that won't work on both of
the P4 motherboards I have. These are brand new Infineon memory modules and
both of them doesn't work, even when I put only one of them on my
motherboards, doesn't matter in which slot I plug them.