I can't believe there are 0 topics about the new AMD architecture. Me I am super stoked about this. I am a huge fan of AMD and can not wait to see the day when AMD can finally have a superior CPU to intel.
Come on guys WTF where is the love.
Ok I have a socket 754 Athlon 64 3000+ @ stock 2 ghz with stock cooler. Since I can?t afford a proper upgrade (mobo, cpu, ram) I am considering overclocking my current cpu.
I have an epox nforce4 socket 754 8NPAJ motherboard and one gig of budget corsair ddr400 memory. I want to overclock as...
Get a 98 boot floppy (aka rescue disk) from someone that has a working 98 system.
I forget the process (I havent ran windows 98 in over 5 years) but I do know it will create a bootable floppy disk with CD ROM drivers to reinstall with.
The reason you cant boot off the CD is probably that...
UPDATE:
Ok, I got the arctic silver and alcohol and decided to reseat the heatsink one more time with the new thermal grease.
I removed the heatsink/fan, cleaned off all of the stock thermal grease from the chip & heatsink (remember I did this already about 3 weeks ago but used stock...
Well here's the thing.
Tonight I was playing Rome Total War Barbarian Invasion (great game btw) and the system shut down. I set in the BIOS to shutdown @ 70C and apparently it did just that.
Upon rboot I see my CPU temp @ 67 so I think I'm gonna need to get that replacement heatsink/fan...
LOL I'm not using RAID for backup purposes :)
There will be offsite backup in place, RAID is for uptime purposes never backup
Also thanks for the suggestion I will go with the Western Digital drives
I?m building a web server for a non profit organization that will be running mostly dynamic database driven content on apache 2 w/ php4. I?m pretty confident in my choice of hardware so far except for the hard drives. I will be utilizing RAID 5 for reliability reasons and since SCSI is out of...
I think the poster is saying the BIOS doesn't have an elegent way to idle, i.e. it doesn't HLT the processor, just spins in a thight loop (while polling hardware, sleeping for en event etc.), which is the same as running under 100% load.
Ok well the temps seem to have dropped a bit. I switched the power connectors on my intake fans and routed the internal cables a bit better which should help airflow.
I still idle around 40C, and go up to 52C at load but this seems to be OK since I have 0 stability issues.
This machine has been rock solid stabiloty wise since I've had it. I changed mobo once from a VIA chipset MSI board to the nforce4 epox board I have now to get PCIe. I've never had any lockups or reboots ever. But, I thought 70C was WAY to high a temp for such a humble processor.
EDIT: The...
Ok let me restate this.
On my case there are a total of 5 fans, 2 x 120mm exaust on the rear, 2 x 120mm intake on the front and 1 x 80mm blowhole on top.
And thanks for the thermal paste tip, I didnt know one should have the heatsink actually spread out the paste.
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