A Series Of Questions

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Keikan@1 February 2004 - 05:22
epox..?

it's called asrock....

now i dunno who to trust.

John is suggesting you get the Epox board as opposed to the ASUS board

[Keikan]

Another question

6. As stated in the videos here http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...%5e6678,00.html
When your using your cpu for along time without taking the heatsink off you should use a thermal pad instead of thermal grease. Is this true?

A. Yes use a thermal pad
B. No you should use thermal grease

[Lite]

Use Artic Silver 5 - the "best" thermal compound you can get

[Livy]

i have an aoc monitor, a 17" flat crt, its pretty decenct for the price anyway, only £70 and im pretty happy with it.

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by Keikan+1 February 2004 - 06:36--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Keikan &#064; 1 February 2004 - 06:36)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>When your using your cpu for along time without taking the heatsink off you should use a thermal pad instead of thermal grease. Is this true?[/b]

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Use Artic Silver 5 - the "best" thermal compound you can get [/quote]

ANSWER HIS QUESTION&#33;&#33;&#33;

no i have not heard that. the asshole who sed that is obviously trying to have AMD customers smpke their chips and buy new 1s sooner

[Lite]

I did kinda answer the question&#33;

Pads are easier to use and last longer (but isnt as good&#33

Grease is harder to apply (propaly), but gives better results and doesnt last aslong.

Artic Silver 5 is made of silver and is the best thermal compund you can get

[Keikan]

@livy Thats the one I was looking at, at the same price too

Uhh how long does thermal grease last? If you are only the computer like 12 hrs a day

[Smurfette]

Originally posted by atiVidia@1 February 2004 - 14:31
no i have not heard that. the asshole who sed that is obviously trying to have AMD customers smpke their chips and buy new 1s sooner

You didn&#39;t even look at the url, did you?

[Smurfette]

Originally posted by Keikan+1 February 2004 - 05:20--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Keikan &#064; 1 February 2004 - 05:20)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>1. If buying a amd barton processer (not 3200+) the speed of ram to buy would be (price is not a factor)[/b]

Get the fastest you can afford - it&#39;ll run at a slower speed until the rest of your system catches up and you can tweak the system&#39;s memory settings a bit without worrying about the RAM coping.

Originally posted by Keikan@1 February 2004 - 05:20
2. Does onboard ac97 have good sound quality?

My on-board realtek seems fine to me but then I haven&#39;t got 5.1 speakers to fuck around with.

Originally posted by Keikan@1 February 2004 - 05:20
3. Does onboard ac97 sound drain your cpu?

Hmm, depends on the chipset, but if you&#39;ve got a Barton 3000, how much of that can sound processing actually take?

Originally posted by Keikan@1 February 2004 - 05:20
4. Does the brand name AOC make good monitors?

I have an AOC Spectrum 7vlr which has stood me well for 4 or 5 years. Looks pretty good to me, even if the max resolution is 1200x1024 @ 60Hz. At the cheaper end of the market, I&#39;d have liked a Hansol when I was buying but I was £50 short of the £200 required.
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5. Does the brand name BenQ make good monitors?[/quote]AFAIK they&#39;re an OK brand; their CDRW drives seemed to be respected when they were called Acer.

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by Lite@1 February 2004 - 08:24
Use Artic Silver 5 - the "best" thermal compound you can get

Another Fan boy it looks like.

http://forums.amdmb.com/showthread.p...hreadid=292028

Read that, before you judge all the competition.