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I am running a p4c800-e dlx in my gaming rig still (waiting for dual core before upgrade). I reformat my main 250gig harddrive every 6 months. Every driver for the MOBO and utilities can be dowloaded from the web here sre the sites. For Chipset: Intels Webiste > Dowload Center > Chipset >...

I recently instaled the micro ATX version of this mobo to replace a crapy mobo in a newer compaq system. I used 2 sticks of crucial pc3200 (2.256) with a sempron 3000+. However, I am using a cheap MSI FX5200 (starforce) for internet and word processing. They only Issue I have is its runnning...

My wife recently bought a Wal-Mart puter Compaq Presario SR1303WM. Reason for this was to free up my gaming rig so I can play in more LAN parties and Grad Work. I did some mild upgrades added a dedicated inexpensive video card MSI/Nvidia 5200 128 meg. 256 megs of Crucial pc 3200 and a better...

I agree, I seen alot of boards that basicly stuck the middle finger up at people when you push them hard. I have read that the Vcore on these boards do the same when you stress it. I do not majorly overclock, 5 to 10% is as much as I will puch any board, guess thats my comfort level. I like to...

After toying around a bit with the bios and Motherboard, I finaly managed to get this board running GREAT!!!! I am getting over 1.9k in benchmark with gl excess, as well as real high scores with 3dmark. I have the overclock set to 5%, Turbo and PAT enabled, with 1 gig of geil ultra dragon...

Yeah, I killed the warranty(had to look inside). Some of the connections was barely hooked up. Two lose connections arched and wallah!!! Fried PSU. A shame to Vantec maked great products. I love the Thermaltake I have now, nice looking psu. On my MOBO, Aida 32 is now seeing it as an agp...

Well, I am stumped. I downloaded the latest 875p drivers from the intel website, reinstaled the video drivers and it is still stuck on PCI-1. Smartgar is identifies it as an agp card and is set to agp8x. Dxdiag recognized it as an agp and has enabled texturing. Is PCI-1 the default agp/pci...

When I first put together the system, I had a vantec 520a stealth psu. When I hooked it up the psu went pop, sizzled and smoked. I went over all my eq soon afterwards, nothing was wrong (whew!!)) . However, I am puzzled by the way the modem is acting and that the mobo will not recognize the...

I just got done putting together my new system, after a bad power supply accident. Everything is running great except it will not recognize my Radeon 9700pro as being in the AGP slot. The card is running at 8XAgp, but in the bios as well as in aida systems, it says agp slot is empty and...

I took the new mobo, psu, cpu and ram back to the shop I got them from. They are going to RMA it, if there are problems with one of the components. I was told my 9700pro card was fine because the surge would of stoped at the cpu before it it the graphics card. I also ordered a new Thermaltake...

I hooked up the old mobo first to the new psu (300 watt fortomo) and it barely ran the fans and got no post error. I hooked up the old psu to it and got the post error of the cpu. I tried various cpus with the old mobo and new psu as well and the same thing/the fans run but no post message. I...

I need desperate help. I have been building systems for awhile, but have never ran into the problem I am having now. I was in the process of upgrading my home system from a Asus P4B533 mobo to a p4c800-e. I got everything connected to get a post on the mobo and cpu. bur rite when I pluged my...

It is that time of year again, time to do the yearly upgrade. The system I am upgrading from is a Asus p4b533e with 1 gig of geil pc2700 ultra ram and p4b2.8. The system I am wanting to go to is in debate. I am caught between getting a Asus p4c800-E Deluxe and a Soyo dragon 2 board. I am also...

Welp!! I was going to upgrade my Mobo and processor but seeing that the P4s are all done with. I decided to wait for the P5 to come out to those components now. My question is, is there a release date on the P5s? I was going to upgrade from a asus p4b533 to a p4c800. From a 2.4b clocked at...

Cool! That is what I am running pc2700 ultra ram with copper heatsinks. I bought a additionl small fan for the ram incase I would ever need it. Rite now I am running the ram at stock timing of CAS 2.5-2-2 1T. I am going to the MML next weekend, so want everything to be ready. This will be my...