What's your power supply wattage?

Dude, really.

If at all possible, please break that up into paragraphs so that people will actually take the time to read it instead of seeing that glob of text you call a justification for...

Honsestly, you're betting off waiting until the FX comes down in price, or you just go with a normal Athlon-64, but the socket 940 will be defunct in well less than a year as it's basically a stopgap...

Ouch...

That's about as powerful as you can get in mATX.

No. You can set the ram timings seperate from the fsb in the BIOS.

That board can support a 200fsb, and if you feel like overclocking that Barton, you can probably set it to 200fsb and forget...

Right. For all that wish to get involved, all they need to do is perform a little bit of research and get some knowledge in their brains, be sensible about things, and they'll be fine. :)

SNDS? System Near Death Syndrome? :lol:

Of course there's always a risk involved, but that doesn't mean good clean overclocks without issue cannot be obtained.

OC'ing a recently released 3GHz...

The posters on this site aren't going to care because they're biased. They all ready have a pre-conceived notion that the black plauge is going to consume their family and next of kin if they up the...

You can disagree until your blue in the face about it, but there will be someone just as inverse proportionally calm and cool about it on the flip side of the coin.

Overclocking has it's place,...

Well yeah, of course.

Your argument is flawed because overclocking a system isn't just about the chip, it's about everything involved in the system.

Take the CPU. Is the 2GHz machine a...

Look up the Abit NF7 (or -S model). Rave reviews about that particular board, especially with the 2500+ Barton's.

With the retail heatsink, expect no less than 2.2GHz, with little or no voltage...

I've got a 1700+ Thoroughbred-B that says exactly the opposite.

And the Asus board listed is an nForce2 chipset based board. One of the good features about that is the PCI bus is locked at...

Or stability, quality, support, warranty services...

More RAM never hurts anything, but 98 has issues with anything above 512MB. If you add another 256MB stick, you'll be fine.

Are you serving music, editing?

You should upgrade, regardless....

The best thing you can do with OEM machines like this is call up the manufacturer, tell them your problem, and if the product is still under warranty, they will fix it.

Since you took the side...

Put both sticks in when you do this...

www.memtest86.com (http://www.memtest86.com)

Download the 3.0 version, boot up with it on a floppy, test it for a few hours, see what errors it reports....

It took you a month to come up with that flame?

You're losing your touch.

Yes, it will line up.

ATi licenses their technologies out for other companies to produce their products, most of the time at a lesser cost to the consumer. What you'll be getting is a reference...

I re-read this thread, and it's definitely the PowerNow feature that is similar in function to Intel's Speedstep technology.

What happens is the laptop clocks the processor up and down given the...

It's either going to be a Thoroughbred B or a Barton. The Bartons are available in 2500+, 2800+, 3000+, and 3200+ currently. Thoroughbred B's are everything else. Companies do and should denote if...

Anything with an nForce2 chipset.

Epox 8RDA3+ would be my choice. I have an 8RDA+, which is just an "older" version of the 3+. It's a great board.

I've heard the DFI LanParty is a decent...

Could be your power supply, motherboard grounding out, or an "iffy" connection with the ATX power connector (assumption that it's an ATX PSU).

Disconnect everything from the motherboard, plug it...

Some BIOS'es can detect what kind of wire you're using.

Though, 40-pin cables are capable of running ATA-33 spec...80-wire is what they introduced for ATA-66.

d2...are you sure you don't mean...

In all reality, you can buy whatever speed you want, as long as it is at least PC2100. The higher speed stuff will downclock itself to match the lower speed.

And if you have to ask about...

You don't need 256MB of any memory to play CS efficiently.
Nor a PIII, whatever speed.
A Voodoo3 PCI would handle the amazing graphics that CS produces. :rolleyes:

Actually, I'd love to see the "ISP" that the PRoC has.

While I'm sure the DoD has some serious computing power, I doubt the average user would be able to get a handle on the hardware.

Not to harp, but there was never a 500MHz PII. PIII (Katmai), sure, but PII's only ramped up to 450MHz.

Download a boot disk from www.bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com)

I own an Athlon 1700+ (that's 1.47GHz) overclocked to 2.2GHz seated in an Epox 8RDA+.

The hottest thing going currently however is an Athlon Barton core 2500+ paired with any nForce2 based board....

There should be an option in the Control Panel to shut that particular "function" off when you're plugged in. Sniff around.