You should have another option for "the size of the case does not matter as much as you think". Sthayashi is right, there are many things at play here and you can have a bigger case with worse temps or a bigger case with better temps. Usually, the case is chosen for the convinience of either working...

Second runs at 2.5 GHz : 200 FSB x 12.5. This one is slightly overvolted, to 1.6 V IIRC. The motherboard is Asus A7N8X, I think. Tigr, have you tested your rig for stability, and if you have it, how? I have an OC'd xp2500+ @ 2.4 GHz on which Prime95 fails rather quickly unless I up the Vcore to abo...

Alpha announced new heatsinks in their press release . They are called N-series and seem to be designed specifically for convection only cooling. Has anyone seen them in the shops in Europe? They look like suitable material for the video card cooling. I would also be interested to see if these can b...

An interesting problem. Ok, so you should have gotten a sturdy stainless steel case in the first place but it is too late for that. You have to get your case to stop resonating. All aluminium cases do that and the only solution is to use some heavy dampening material on the flat surfaces inside the ...

I have now 2 machines running with Athlon XP-M 2600. First runs at 1 GHz : 200 FSB x 5. This one is passively cooled and is on 24x7 as my main machine for everything. CPU is undervolted to 1.1 V. The motherboard is Abit NF7-S. Second runs at 2.5 GHz : 200 FSB x 12.5. This one is slightly overvolted,...

Thanks, POLIST8! Well, I can see a reason for weeping. The life with Athlon 64 is not going to be as easy as it was with the XP-M. Although that may still change some time later. I really hope that the board manufacturers will fix all those boards to run with Mobile. For the moment, I guess, it's be...

Ok, folks, the Athlon 64 mobile is out in the shops. I am trying to find the information on the compatibility of this chip with the desktop boards. Does anyone have some references to: - whether it runs in the regular desktop boards - whether there are some compatibility problems with some boards - ...

The Asus boards run with the default voltage of the CPU as the minimum. In other words, they detect the voltage that CPU requires and only allow to change it upwards. This is a major drawback with XP-M processors, because the bridges are configured differently for desktop and mobile CPUs. Therefore,...

I would not see a point in having a Athlon 64 for the job. This system requires more features on the motherboard than the CPU power, right? So I guess you could take the Athlon XP-Mobile and undervolt and underclock it. Mine is running passively cooled at 200x5=1GHz in a Abit NF7-S board. I am very ...

With the Zalman, the two power supplies are actually quite different from each other. They differ in some design and some parts. For one thing ZM-400 is about twice as heavy as ZM-300. Ok, I am exaggerating, but it is close. The weight of the PSU is (more or less) directly proportional to the qualit...

If you're going aluminium, for a similar sort of money I would expect the Akasa Eclipse-62 to be a better case. ... snip ... To me it looks kinda similar to the Praetorian http://www.akasa.com.tw/spec/cases/water_mark_ak_bkcse_01_b.jpg Anyone has any idea how the abovementioned case turned from Glo...

Hey, if you begin with undervolting, then get yourself a Mobile XP, undervolt, underclock and use a completely fanless CPU cooler!

Seriously, I would recommend you to get one of Thermalright's products and pair it with a decently quiet fan.

Slowly changed all PSUs at home and at the office to Zalman ZM-400APS. No coil whine as far as I can tell from any of the systems.

Alternatively, get rid of TI4200 and get a Radeon 9600, passively cooled. TI4200 is too hot for quiet setups (I have one too and hate every moment of it). Are there any nvidia-based cards that lend themselves well to quiet computers (i.e. are not too hot)? I'd prefer to stick with nvidia because I'...

Things you describe will work fine even on the previous generation of processors. I think a VIA CPU should be adequate, although I never used one so I cannot judge for sure. All of those things you are planning to do require a large amount of system memory, not CPU power. So, I would say a GB of mem...

As for the temperatures, your problem is twofold. The CPU and the graphics card are both the problem. Since most of the heat simply goes into the case, there is no wonder that the PSU ramps up. * Change HSF to a "suck"-style setup and duct hot CPU air straight out the back of the case I would say th...

Excuse me, and what is the definition of a 64 bit processor then? Are you saying that a 64 bit processor is the one where Windows 64 bit runs? I am sure you would be excited to learn that 64 bit Linux is available to run on your 64 bit AMD processor. Anyway, correct me if I am wrong for I do not gen...

Actually, I do not know how any of those "dual kits" or "extreme performance" memory sets work. I never had any. I only used the "value selection" memory sticks and they work perfectly in my dual channel boards. I do not see any point in buying anything more expensive.

Abit NF7-S does support dual channel RAM. And it is a very good board. However, since you are buying only one stick of RAM, the dual channel will not work for you until you buy a second stick. Dual channel needs two sticks to work. On any board. For the moment, you can stick with one and buy another...

That's correct. You have to set the initial FSB with the jumpers. The board also has an "autodetect" setting for the FSB but that setting detects my XP-2600 as having a 100 MHz FSB. That's where I started. Then, BIOS also has an option for overclocking where you can select the FSB you want from the ...

Well, you are lucky that it defaulted to the lower multipier. That's how my Abit boots up. My Soltek, however, defaults to the higher multiplier for whatever reason. Now if I changed the FSB to 166, that would be what? 15x166=2490 MHz, right? Mmmm.... maybe it can take it, you know... Well, it could...

And the point is? In my understanding, 64 bit support of AMD is a genuine product while the 64 bit of Intel is a marketing trick to pull the attention away from AMD. And what the heck do I want with "64 bit memory support"? A fully capable 64 bit processor is ... well ... a fully capable 64 bit proc...

By the way anybody know of any problem with Twinmos memory? It looks like the brand Mushkin is popular in these forums? I had only a single experience with the Twinmos memory and stayed away from them ever since. I had bought 2x512 PC3200 and that memory was never able to run at the specified speed...

I haven't been able to measure my HDD temp w/ software on my WD, so I really don't know what it runs. Warm to the touch at idle. But it looks like the Samsung I ordered will work for HDD temp monitoring. An easy, albeit very unprecise, method of measuring the HDD temperature. Press your fingers to ...

If you are going to cut the grill off the back, cut the front grill out at the same time. You never know, maybe one day down the road you will want to place a fan there and you will be like "damn, why didn't I cut it out when I had a chance? Now I've got to disassemble the whole bloody thing to do i...

Hi, folks! I figure it belongs here where the discussion on Athlon Mobile XPs goes. Right. So, the whole thing with the Mobile Athlon is to be able to do 2 things: 1) run at lower Vcore 2) freely manipulate the multiplier Those two things allow us to choose that particular level of the speed of the ...

Well, you can safely cool a Mobile XP processor running between 500 MHz and 1 GHz with a Zalman "flower" (CNPS-6000, wasn't it?). The max power of the CPU will depend on your case airflow, YMMV.

You may want to double-check what you buy from Savastore and you still are running a risk of getting something else

Hi! First off, I do not understand the temperature readings that you supply. According to your measurements, the CPU is running below the case temperature? That is simply not possible unless you duct the CPU with the fresh air intake from outside the case. The 4 fans in the case (plus the fan in the...

Just off the top of the Google, check these:

http://www.12volt.com.au/webcat2003/meters.html
http://www.rapidelectronics.co.uk/rkmai ... Code=30480