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When is your Hard Drive worked the hardest?

For about 300 public access computers on campus: Loading Visual Studio.NET w/MSDN (Much slower than Studio 6) Loading Matlab 6.5/7.0 Relavent Sys specs: P4 2.2GHz 400FSB 512Mb RAM (SDRAM PC100) 5400RPM 2MB cache Western Digital 60GB EIDE HDD My system: Copying files between my...
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- Post #68
- Oct 2, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Anyone with knowledge about the KT880 plz read

AsRock is not part of Asus. They may or may not have been at one point, but they certainly aren't now. I don't know how good AsRock is, but if you are worried about memory problems this chart can give you a good idea of how Asus compares to the competition with potentially difficult or quirky...
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- Post #2
- Aug 6, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Machine Tweaking Advice

Socket A VIA KT600 chipset. No AGP/PCI lock, just memory dividers. While overclocking, keep in mind that you will be overclocking you AGP/PCI bus, therefore, you will have better luck getting something like 166/333 FSB working than say 160/320 and probably better than 150/300 as well. You get a...
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- Post #9
- Jul 27, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Athlon 64.....newcastle and claw hammer

If the A64 3000 has 512K cache then it's a newcastle. With out that knowledge, I'd probably assume it's a newcastle anyway. AMD didn't release anything below A64 3200 until the newcastle core came out. Newcastle vs Clawhammer CO vs Clawhammer CG. (Newcastles all come with the CG revision) In...
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- Post #6
- Jul 26, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Abit or Asus?

If you want a VIA chipset for your S939 board, go with Abit. The Abit AV8 series boards appear to be as stable as the Asus equivalents, and they have the added benifit of being perhaps the best overclocking S939 VIA based boards. If you want an nVidia chipset for S939, well, umm, you'll...
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- Post #6
- Jul 26, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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The mobile Athlon 64 and motherboards

Bar81, You might update the top post to mention that the "true" mobiles use the drillhammer core not the clawhammer or newcastle cores. To make the distinction even easier, the drillhammer core look like a square where the other cores look like rectangles. Last I checked the 1.4V A64...
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- Post #418
- Jul 26, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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A64 Mobile

The difference between PowerNow and Cool & Quiet is basically that PowerNow has more speed/voltage settings for each chip. Technology is basically the same, but I think the motherboard has to support the extra settings. Nobody commented on DTR chips. Any input on those?
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- Post #9
- Jul 26, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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FX-53 owners, what OS are you using?

I second that.
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- Post #4
- Jul 23, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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A64 Mobile

If I got , say an Asus K8N-E, or an MSI K8N Neo Platinum, would I be able to run an A64 mobile. I know you can run AXP mobiles on normal desktop boards, but I don't know about the A64 models. Also, since A64 mobile uses PowerNow instead of Cool & Quiet, I'd like to know whether desktop...
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- Thread
- Jul 23, 2004
- Replies: 9
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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How high is a safe voltage on a mobile 2500?

I converted your temps: 98F -> 36.7C 115F -> 46.1C Your others CPUs still seem to be fine for overclocking further. I try to stay below 50C, but it is safe to go higher. To keep things in perspective: The lowest warning temp I've seen on a motherboard is 60C. The lowest shutdown temp on...
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- Post #6
- Jul 23, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Recommendation for motherboard?

As far as overclocking is concerned, the NF3 250GB should give you less problems. Outside of that, I'd say that the chipsets themselves are equally stable. If you get a VIA based board, I'd go with Abit all the way. You'll probably get the most stable/highest overclocking VIA based baord from...
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- Post #4
- Jul 23, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Does NF7-s have Firewire and SoundStorm?

No soundstorm, it uses a difference MCP chip. I don't beleive it has firewire either.
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- Post #2
- Jul 21, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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nforce2 or kt600?

I've had both chipsets (Abit NF7-S and Asus A7V600) so I'll explain my experiences with them. Both were solid boards. With DDR400 the KT600 theoretically gets half the bandwidth that the NF2 does (in dual channel mode). In practice it turned out to be an 80% difference, give or take. (still...
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- Post #4
- Jul 21, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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Unofficial ASUS K8N-E thread

Abit doesn't even have an nF3 based board. You'd have to deal with VIA if you want an Abit A64 board. Asus doesn't have the competition in the AMD market that it does in the Intel market. Also, I imagine that they are more concerned with developing a highly overclockable socket 939 board (more...
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- Post #13
- Jul 21, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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A7N8X-E Deluxe or AN7

I can't confirm either way. I've been able to get all sorts of high latency memory to run tight timings on my NF7-S. I haven't actually worked with corsairs higher latency memory, though. As far as the faster board is concerned, the AN7 may be faster at stock performance, but the NF7-S will...
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- Post #5
- Jul 20, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards

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