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Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors August 1st 04, 06:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.emulators.executor,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.freeware.games,alt.comp.freeware.gdp,alt.comp.fsp,alt.comp.goldmine,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 2
Views: 389
Posted By Ben Pope
Nick Berg Alive

john wrote:
You stupid *** were you born , if so you are a waste of a semen


There is no need for such language and quoting the whole thing again makes
you the same. No, worse. It makes you as...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 31st 04, 09:37 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64,alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
Replies: 16
Views: 741
Posted By Ben Pope
Socket A & 754 Sempron caution.

Ed Light wrote:
Yes, it will have to scale it down from the bus, instead of up from
133/266 as it is now (still runs faster than in synch on benchmarks).

It probably will be faster on a VIA.

...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 30th 04, 11:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64,alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
Replies: 16
Views: 741
Posted By Ben Pope
Socket A & 754 Sempron caution.

Ed Light wrote:
I was hoping to use my two pc2700/333 Corsair Value Selects, but the two
are totally different and not actually made by Corsair.


It should be fine, just set the timings such...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 23rd 04, 08:52 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 12
Views: 439
Posted By Ben Pope
Asus A7V8X and a XP 2500 AMD, help

Bradley Moser wrote:
This board board is the cheap model.
I only has 5 dip switches to change the Freq
That is it.
I mite buy a new motherboard

5 dip switches is 32 options. Which would...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 22nd 04, 11:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 12
Views: 439
Posted By Ben Pope
Asus A7V8X and a XP 2500 AMD, help

Bradley Moser wrote:
Ok, I changed it.
It still shows 1100 XP CPU.

Then you only *think* you changed it. It's still 11*100MHz.

How did you "change" it?

Ben
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Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 22nd 04, 09:36 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 12
Views: 439
Posted By Ben Pope
Asus A7V8X and a XP 2500 AMD, help

Bradley Moser wrote:
Last weekend i went out and bought a XP 2500 AMD CPU and got it home
thinking it would work in my motherboard.

My older motherboard only goes up to 266 bus speed.
So I...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 18th 04, 09:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 7
Views: 399
Posted By Ben Pope
Not sure - might have fried the CPU

Amol wrote:
How can you rule out a a bad motherboard? The case power switch signals
the mobo, which in turn signals the PSU to power on, right? So if the
mobo is bad, then the PSU will never...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 6th 04, 05:56 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 1
Views: 395
Posted By Ben Pope
Excessive CPU Usage

Al Pal wrote:
Howdy,
I have a stand alone box with my DVD burner in it
Gigabyte 7VRX M\B
Xp1800 CPU
Runs XP Pro
No network card or internet connection
I just use it for burning Dvd's
...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors July 6th 04, 02:45 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
Replies: 10
Views: 546
Posted By Ben Pope
Newegg doubles price!

Wes Newell wrote:
I'm a little ****ed about this. Newegg has raiseed the price of the
TR2-M1 cooler from $8.99 to $15.99. The only reason I can see for this is
the popularity and the five star...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors June 22nd 04, 12:34 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 2
Views: 328
Posted By Ben Pope
Installing fresh copy of Windows XP

DougH wrote:
and that the very
first thing that should be installed are the chipset drivers??? Is this
correct? My notebook will have a AMD Athlon 64 3400 processor in it, do
AMD's have...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors June 14th 04, 07:59 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 3
Views: 444
Posted By Ben Pope
Athlon CPU Upgrade in Compaq Laptop

DougH wrote:
As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle
100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile
Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB....
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors June 2nd 04, 08:18 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 3
Views: 300
Posted By Ben Pope
Trying to max a motherboard

Matthew Mucklo wrote:
Hello,

I'm trying to max out a motherboard that's rated for AMD Athlon XP
processors.

It's a Gigabyte K7 Triton based GA-7VKMLS with a 266 mhz FSB which
says it...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors May 19th 04, 10:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Replies: 11
Views: 607
Posted By Ben Pope
Pending configuration for budget gaming

Zigzag wrote:
I am building a computer for my neighbor whose son plays Sim 4, Populus
and 4 x 4 Screamer, soon to upgrade to newer games once he has the
computer to play them. They currently...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors May 17th 04, 08:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 23
Views: 926
Posted By Ben Pope
test of thermal pad on AMD

Don Taylor wrote:
Does anyone know of a relatively cheap smoke detector like device
BUT it will switch off maybe 1000 watts of power when it thinks
that something has caught fire? I'm...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors April 25th 04, 11:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 5
Views: 547
Posted By Ben Pope
Spectacular power supply failures in In Win micro cases.

Baelzar wrote:
Last July I ordered 11 systems built for the company I work for.

Specs:
Case: In Win CA-BT553

Who chose the case?

Motherboard: MSI MS-6378 v3
Processor: Athlon...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors April 22nd 04, 12:02 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 3
Views: 330
Posted By Ben Pope
Can 400Mhz memory run in a 333Mhz board?

Larry Roberts wrote:
I'm wondering if 400Mhz DDR memory can run at 333Mhz? I can get the
400Mhz rated DDR for a few bucks cheaper than the 333Mhz rated
version, but my board only supports upto...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors April 22nd 04, 12:00 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 1
Views: 267
Posted By Ben Pope
Which one

Paul Bassman wrote:
Hi Folks,

IF money was no object, and IF what you know about the FX 55, and IF it
was out now. One question Would you buy a top of the range ( I know you
would build...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 29th 04, 01:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 1
Views: 321
Posted By Ben Pope
A7V8X-X WITH 2500+ Barton

yaesu wrote:
I have my chip set in Bios as :
cpu speed 1833
muliple 11.0x
cpu ext freq 166/33
I have 512Mb of PC2700 memory.

Could someone with similar setup advise if these...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 22nd 04, 06:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 16
Views: 714
Posted By Ben Pope
Confused about RAM types and Athlon64?

Mr. E. Mann wrote:
"Ben Pope" wrote in
:
1GB modules are overpriced and usually overkill. I have 1Gig and have
never...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 20th 04, 08:37 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 16
Views: 714
Posted By Ben Pope
Confused about RAM types and Athlon64?

callsignviper wrote:
Maybe an obtuse reference to "dual channel"????

Could be but memory isn't dual channel, chipsets are.

Ben
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A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html
Questions by email...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 19th 04, 08:43 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 1
Views: 416
Posted By Ben Pope
QuickTime Problem

ExtantOne wrote:
I have an Epox 8RDA3+, Athlon 2600, running XP Pro.
Boot Drive is SATA Western Digital 120Gb. D: is Zip 100, E: is CDRW.
System runs great except for one problem. When I open a...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 19th 04, 08:39 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 2
Views: 243
Posted By Ben Pope
Can a 200/266fsb board use a 333fsb 2600+XP chip?

Blaedmon wrote:
Just wondering. Keep in mind the mobo is a serverboard (Tyan) which has NO
cpu options to speak of in Bios. Wondering if the system would simply
downclock itself to something it...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 19th 04, 08:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 16
Views: 714
Posted By Ben Pope
Confused about RAM types and Athlon64?

Daniel wrote:
Hey there guys :)

First post here! I haven't bought a desktop puter since my Thunderbird
800 MHz in 2000 - now I'm gonna build a wicked kickass Athlon64 :D

Only thing is,...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 12th 04, 11:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 8
Views: 397
Posted By Ben Pope
Whats fastest 266fsb XP chip?

Wes Newell wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:48:32 +1100, Blaedmon wrote:

I'm wanting to put an XP 3200+ in a Tyan 2462 mobo - but do they make a
266fsb xp3200+ at all?

if you want to run...
Forum: AMD Thunderbird Processors February 11th 04, 08:40 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
Replies: 2
Views: 210
Posted By Ben Pope
Hard drives

napol wrote:
scsi or not?

Depends what you want to do, but for anything other than a server with very
high I/O, I'd say not.

If you want a fast drive, look at the WD Raptors, especially the new...
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