Well guys, how are you enjoying life in the fast lane?
What HSFs are you using?
Have you noticed that these chips seem to heat up/cool down almost instantaneously?
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Well guys, how are you enjoying life in the fast lane?
What HSFs are you using?
Have you noticed that these chips seem to heat up/cool down almost instantaneously?
I'm using the stock cooler with stock thermal pad and yes I did notice that.
At idle it runs @36°C.
Instantly hits 41°C under full load (folding)
Instantly drops back down to 36 if I pause work.
Case temp shows 32°C.
I cannot get over the fact that the heatsink actually feels cold to the touch under load!
When they say these new 90nm CPU run cool, they're not kidding.
I haven't tried overclocking yet. I really don't see the need to. It runs fast the way it is.
I nabbed a CM Hyper48 HSF yesterday (my watercooling setup is undergoing a major revision) and am quite pleased with it so far.
Installation is a snap and the supplied 92mm fan is almost dead silent.
Naturally, I can't leave well enough alone, so tonight after work I'll be adding a 120mm fan to see what happens.
My running temps have been marginally lower than yours VB, but not by much ( and within the margin of error), so my results should be applicable to you also.
I'll let you know.
@clocker,
I just tried an experiment you might be interested in...
The Cool 'n' Quiet technology feature of this motherboard.
With Cool 'n' Quiet - Off.
Idle: 36°C
Load: 41°C
CPU fan speed is 3200 RPM.
Now with the feature - On:
Idle: 37°C
Load: 43°C
But now for the best part... The CPU fan speed has dropped to:
Idle: 2050 RPM
Load: 2050 RPM
Very impressive results. It sounds dead quiet.
I have always had "Cool & Quiet" off anyway.
Not gonna pollute your thread with my experiments, VB.
I have a huge pile of parts to add so I'll just start yet another "Modding Sprocket" topic.
Believe it or not, I only just flashed my bios today using liveupdate. Kept putting this off cause 512mb was enough to keep me going until I installed Azureus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
This indeed was the problem as we thought, now showing 1.0 GB of ram :rolleyes:
Could you afford anything better? :blink: :lookarounQuote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
I couldn't at the time, Remember, some of us don't get an "allowance" We have family's to feed and other bills to pay. I allow myself an upgrade about once a year, depending on whats out there. I enjoy my PC, but its not the most important thing I have. I much rather spend money taking Sideswiped out :w00t:Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkin Park
:rolleyes: I get stuff bought for me since im special :D Whole new custom pimp rig commin (Summer 05) :w00t: :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by RPerry
I could have any (more expensive) one I wanted but is it the best choice? In fact I could spend a whole lot more if I want to. I have the money. It's just a choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkin Park
The prices at the time were about:
3000+ $185
3200+ $265
3500+ $390
3800+ $600
FX over $1000
So you can see that for an extra 200+ speed increase you have to spend quite a difference in money. To me it wasn't worth it. I'm better saving my money and if I wait for prices to drop... I might even be able to buy the FX for a few hundred dollars later on.
And oh... 3000+ is plenty fast.
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Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
Not to mention we automaticlly had to replace our mainboards too, and they were almost as much as the processor ( socket 939 ) :cool:
Just as long as it works fine for you, then its all good. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
Sorry to stray from the topic a bit, but I had a question about this statement...Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
I just bought a Athlon 64 3500+ winchester with the 90nm for my ASUS A8V-Deluxe, I was wondering if I'll need to flash my BIOS before I'll be capable of booting, and if so, is it possible to do so without temporarily installing a floppy?
I had no problems booting, just a problem recognizing the RAM. I didn't even bother with a floppy at all, just used the live update program to do it through windowsQuote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
Does ASUS have this feature? Or is it a windows feature?Quote:
Originally Posted by RPerry
(I'm still using Win2k, but going to use the Retestrak XP Corp MegaDVD edition for system I'm building...)
Damn, It's an MSI feature. Check on the website for your MB, If I'm not mistaken, the newer Asus boards have dual bios chips and you might have something similiar for your MainboardQuote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
Asus have an online bios update feature too.
But the Winchester's have been out long enough now, so the bios should support them straight from the box (my Abit board did, it even says 90nm on a sticker on the box) unless it has been sitting on the dealer's shelf for a while. You know what some of them are like, spend so much time OCing their systems they forget to rotate the stock. :rolleyes:
Thanks for checking that out Lynx, I was being lazy myself, had alot to do yesterday/last night :(Quote:
Originally Posted by lynx
Thought you could slide that by me, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by lynx
So far, all of our boards have dealt with the 90nm Winnies just fine and as long as the RAM is 512 sticks it's been recognized as well.
1GB modules are another story.
Yesterday's build (3000+ on a Chaintech board) would only recognize the RAM in slots 2 and 4.
No real problem as he only(!!??) wanted 2GB, but as he had hinted that he might add more later, we tossed in two more sticks just to see what happened.
Only showed as 2.75GB. No matter what order we installed.
Hope he doesn't decide to get more later.
On a side note...
I've now used the nVidia 6200 "TurboCache" video cards on two builds with surprising results.
Essentially, they are 6600GTs with the memory stripped off and they use system RAM.
Works very well for a <$100 card and is a cheap way to get into PCI-Express, with room to upgrade later.
It should boot with the older BIOS and once you do that you can see the BIOS rev. on the first black screens. With the revision number in hand, check ASUS web site to see if you need a new revision or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory