I just upgraded my system for the first time in 3 years. I had
selected the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice for $150 to go with an Asus
A8N-SLI motherboard, but the store only had used ones. I was then told
for $20 more I could get a used Athlon 64 3500+ with one of the "older

Have been taking a look at the AM2 processors.  What's the big deal?  Is
there a major performance jump for AM2 chips?  Clock speeds are roughly
the same.  Architecture isn't that much different.  DDR2 is no
advantage, is it?

I'm going to be building a new PC from scratch this weekend or so.  I
am planning on buying an AMD Opteron 165 with an Asus A8N-SLI
motherboard.  I have never overclocked a cpu, memory, or gpu.  I would
like advice on anything and everything anyone would happen to know

In general, which of these boosts "overall" performance of a computer
(multitasking, office, xp pro, etc... not a gamer)
1024mb mem instead of 512
dual-core vs hyperthreading

I've got a Winchester [3000] at 250 FSB and 1.6v.  It's been there a month.
I'm wondering how 'dangerous' 1.6v is.  Without any guarantee, would it seem
safe to increase from 1.6v?
Thanks

I'm thinking of buying a Sempron 64bit 2800+.  The motherboard I'll be
buying for it is the ASUS K8V-X SE.  What kind of overclock can I expect
with this setup?  I'm only familiar with overclocking AMD XP type CPUs.
What settings should I use?

I have 2, 120mm fans cooling my sytem.  One fan is weaker than the other.
Should the weaker fan be in the front intake or the rear exhaust?
Thanks.

I've bought PIII 533 in order to replace celeron 300. My motherboard is:
http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=71
and it can manage with PIII. The model is 6BB / 6BB v1.0 and on
http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=15 is written that it supports this

On the Biostar tforce 6100 there is the normal HT setting in the
overclocking screen, then in the advanced chipset screen there are
NB-->SB HT Speed
The Choices: 4X (default).1X, 2X, 3X, 5X.

Here's the deal:  I've got a (old, yes) DFI AD70-SR mobo, with the Via
KT266A chipset, and an Athlon XP 2100+ CPU running at 1.70 volts (down
from the spec 1.75).
For various reasons (less heat, noise, power, and just to see if it can

To start out I don't know very much about computers, trying to learn
however.  Someone put this computer together for me and took off the
overclock for my x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~1102
Mhz.  How do I get it back to a 1.8 Mhz?

I was looking for a processor upgrade for my socket 754 motherboard to give
it a little longer life.  had a sempron 2600 in it.  went to Fry's
electronics in Fishers, IN and they had Athlon 64 3200 for $89 US plus tax!
Hell of a deal!  I normally buy from Newegg.com online but ...

Now that I have my system stable. I am thinking of making the transition
from Windoze to Linux SuSE 10.1.  I was curious to hear opinions or horror
stories from anybody else that has tried swapping systems.  I also was
hoping that there will be as many unix overclocking tools as ...

Hi there, I have just put together an old 775i65gv with a Pentium 4
3.2GHz. The question I want to ask is what motherboard do I select
under MotherBoard Monitor, as it doesn't have the 775i65gv listed! :-/

this is my actual setting (default) i'd like to speedup it a bit
CPU-Z Report
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CPU-Z version 1.33.1.