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I would appreciate some advice. I am owed a motherboard and memory (I have
to purchase the CPU). My current system is the A7v8x and an Athlon 2400+
with 512 MB of generic ddr400. I prefer a gamer setup which is why the AMD
64 is my first choice (but also encode DVDs). But I am being ...

Is it worth getting a copper shim for my AMD XP when I fit a new
cooler? What exactly do they do?
TIA
Alex

Just lately I have been having troubles with my RAM. I had 2 sticks of
512mb PC3200 onboard a Gigabyte 7N400 with an XP3000 CPU. They were
running in Dual Channel Mode...
The system never really performed like it had 1 GB, always running

"Dear" Hank,
if you think that my questions are annoying, please, DON'T SAY A WORD. You
are only a ill-mannered person, I don't tolerate your idiocy. Why don't you
go in another newsgroup to do the CLOWN? Try this one: alt.idiocy.hank! And

Athlon XP 2800+ on ASUS A7V600-X with 512 MB DDR400 RAM. Setting in BIOS
are:
CPU SPEED: 2083 MHZ
CPU FREQ. MULTIPLE: 12.5x

I have an nf7-s 2.0 mb, xp 2500+ barton, 512 ocz performance 6-3-3-2.0, 500w
ps. my games run fine when at stock settings. there is an option built into
my nf7-s to overclock it to 3200+. when i do that, my games don't run long
before they lock up. the mobo under long period of ...

Even after I turn the power off from the power bar I can still feel an
electrical charge when I touch the outside of the case. I've changed
the power supply (420w Antec), the mainboard (8rda+), and the case.
Still the same thing and  sometimes it won't power on. I figure

I'm a newbie here, please be gentle....
Can anyone give me some tips for a mild (10-20%) OC of the Barton
3000+ (2.167GHz, 400 MHz FSB)? Does this chip require soldering/silver
laquer/etc? I've seen several conflicting mssg. now - are some of

OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum what chips does it use ?
You know like bh-5,6, ch-5 or whatever anyone know ??
Whats the best fastest ??
Thanks.

I have an Athlon XP 2400+ OC'd to 2.26GHz.  (FSB bumped just a little to
137MHz or 274MHz)  The multiplier is at 16.5.  The VCORE is at 1.7.  'Big
Mutha Truckers' will barely run on my computer.  It's really slow loading
between screens.  When I freshly installed XP, I tried putting ...

I have a IC7-MAX3 motherboard and a P4 3.2C Northwood CPU. Using the
Motherboard's Voltage Measurement tool from the BIOS setup menu, I
noticed that:
Vcore measures 1.5V even though it is set (by default) to 1.55V. Now

Anyone recommend a good site for sorting this pc out?

Hi there my setup is
2.8C p4 running at 3.5Ghz (14*250 dividor at 5:4)
in the bios the voltage is set at 1.6250V (on an ic7 max 3)
but mbm reports 1.57V to 1.62V and the average being 1.6V. I have no

There have been a few posts in aus.computers about
- lack of availability of AMD XP-M  processors in Australia
- high cost of what little is available
- etailers like newegg etc does not ship internationally