Recent content by Crazy_Eddy

^ AFAIK, intel 845 based boards support a max of DDR 333 Mhz, but i'm not sure. Either way, no harm in going for 400Mhz DDR memory - there's not much of a price difference. DDR2 is a poor joke - the latencies on those things are pathetic ! I'm not sure higher speeds would make a difference.

Yep you can use memory rated for any speed and it will work at its maximum speed provided that max speed is supported by your motherboard. What motherboard do you have ?

L&C is the OEM for Zebronics & Powersafe. i.e. they make the SMPS's for Zebby and Powersafe/VIP. Powersafe/VIP employ better Quality control AFAIK.

Monitoring temperatures depends solely on the GPU in question - the FX series never supported temperature monitoring AFAIK. Only the newer 6xxx series support temperature monitoring. P.s: Nice Car PC you got in your avatar ! Did you fix that up yourself? :)

Hey first off digitized - great work with the configs ! Though a couple of errors i'd like to point out : You're talking about the HT (HypterTransport) bus, not HyperThreading! It is quite true that this is AMD's weak point - if you start up multiple applications, it cannot properly...

^ Dual-channel for Athlon64 is irrelevant of what board you have! It depends on the platform/socket you are using - Socket 754 does not support Dual-channel memory (only Socket 939 does). As per RAID, AFAIK performance increases ARE noticeable.. however the added risk of the disks failing...

^ The Opterons available here are not the Socket 939 versions. Considering they're all sold out in the US itself, would be almost impossible to find them here.

1. Yes you can combine nvidia cards from different brands and run them in SLI. However, the GPU should still be the same, eg. an XFX 6600GT should be combined with a Leadtek 6600GT only, you cannot combine it with a 6800GT. 2. AFAIK, the need for a crossfire master card has been eliminated...

1. Thats a wrong notion that AMD procs are the only ones that OverClock. Even Intel procs support OC'ing. The Northwoods were very good OC'ers. Even the current Prescotts overclock well provided you have *very* good cooling. A P4 1.5Ghz is definately no Northwood - looks more like a Williamette...

You can recognise the Venice core by looking at the Heatspreader on the processor - look for the ending DAA4BP for E3 Venice or DAA4BW for the E6 Venice . The heatspreader is easily visible through the AMD Processor box window. Have attached a pic for you to understand what I mean...

@HellGuardian, you're on a Socket 754 Athlon64 system. Socket 754 systems do not support dual-channel memory, so do not add another mem module to expect dual-channel performance! ;) On the other hand, 1GB of RAM will do wonders for your gaming needless of dual-channel support not being there...

A64 X2 4200+ is the only X2 part "officially" available from AMD India. Costs around ~ 26K. The 3800+ X2 is not available.

Use memtest = *www.memtest86.com/ If you have a CD-writer, Download - Memtest86 v3.2 ISO image and burn it to a CD. Reboot, setting your PC to boot from your CD drive in the BIOS. Let it boot from the memtest CD and use it to test your memory. A single "pass" will take roughly around...

^ LOL! Where did you get that from ?? Check out: - *www.bfgtech.com/6600GT_PCIX.html - *www.big-tek.com/geforce6600PCIgt128.htm Notice the similarity between the two cards? Apparently both BFG and BIG source their 6600GT cards from the same manufacturer. I believe that...

^ Not exactly, it is pretty easily available in most metros these days.