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Actually I was wrong. It's a 250 watt PSU (300 watts peak). I ordered the GIGABYTE / AMD II X3 combo originally recommended. Let's see what happens with that. Incidentally, for posterity, I flashed the BIOS (using the latest ROM on a USB thumb drive and the ASUS EZ Flash 2 utility) but the...

Well I pulled out the board and I see a few problems. 1) The power supply is only 115 watts whereas the AMD II X3 is 95 watts itself. 2) The CPU power connector from the power supply is 4 pins whereas the GIGABYTE board has an 8 pin connector. Searching all of the other possibilities I get...

This definitely looks like a possibility. It's not much more than buying a board for the existing E5300. I just need to pull the old board out and make sure there are no obvious cable / connectivity problems. However it does use significantly more power. Does anyone know if I can mess with the...

Hi All, After about a year of running happily without any environmental changes that I know of, it seems the motherboard in my ASUS Essentio CM5570-AP002 has become unstable. Sometimes the boot drive is not recognised. And if it is, sometimes it kernel panics. And if it boots, the network...