Recent content by marginalclue

I have the sonata II, and I love it. I'm sure the solo will be nice too. Because I've had it for almost a year, I'm in the market for a new PSU myself. Have you checked out the Corsair HX 520? All the bells and whistles of the 620 for less money and 40A on the 12v rail instead of 50A.

:mrgreen: :trophy: :trophy: :trophy: thank you. I think the poor quality of the SP 450 made me worry way too much :)

thanks, mpilch. do I need to worry about the PSU overheating? Or just not working as well or as long because it is pulling heat from the CPU which idles at 36c?

Hello and thanks for reading. My case temps average 30C, and I'm going to replace my SmartPower 2.0 power supply with a Corsair HX 520. The PSU is installed in the top-left corner of my case, just above my 120mm TriCool exhaust fan, which blows out the back of my case. The SmartPower has an...

can you get your cpu freq past 220 MHz with a smaller multiplier? just asking because if not, you definitely need to run your RAM on a divider, which you didn't mention among your specs. if so, it's still probably the ram. what mobo are you using?

hey oz42, thanks for all the useful info on the A8N-SLI. I'm thinking of buying a 4400 X2 (right now I have a 3200+ running at 2.4, 5/6 multi 4x htt 1.41 vcore 2.7v RAM), and am considering whether I should update the bios from 1014. As you know ASUS isn't updating the bios anymore. What bios...

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I'm running 2x1GB at 400 MHz... I should be more clear when I say 333, that's how this board displays the 5/6 divider. If I run it at 1:1, won't the RAM be running at 240x2=480 and, Idonknow, blow up or something? Thanks to the guy who recommended the OCZ platinum... it seems that if I really...

Apparently, you guys are masochists -- I got more of a response with that post than all the others combined. I do have DDR400 RAM, but it is not particularly overclockable. Guess I should have gone with 1GB of expensive over 2GB of value that supposedly ran at 2.5-3-2-5 (I learned a valuable...

Why thank you. I have the A8N-SLI vanilla. I actually did adjust the voltage from (according to AI Booster) 1.36 to 1.40. I've done some more research and I've found out that the A8N-SLI boards will not allow a Venice CPU to boot at a frequency over 240MHz with a memory divider. I probably...

I can't believe that for all the times I posted about the system I was putting together, no one could bring themselves to tell me that the A8N-SLI boards and the Venice cores don't work well together. Specifically, that the only memory divider that works is 333 MHz, and if you want to clock the...

I have the basic A8N-SLI, running BIOS 1014. However, it seems that pride goeth before the fall, or that I counted my chickens early, or something..... the system is stable as follows: 240 CPU, 10x multiplier, 1.40v 5/6 RAM divider, 2.5-4-4-7-1T timings, 2.7v 4x HTT I changed the RAM to...

CPU-Z calls it a Manchester E4, CBI calls it a Venice E6 like the seller did. In any case, I'm running it at 2.4GHz stable (Prime95 for 14h 45m ) at 1.39-1.42v up from 1.36-1.39v. Current temps 38c idle, 49c stress. I'm either going to up the HTT to 250 and stop, or buy an Arctic Cooler Pro...

Here's the machine: Antec Sonata II w/450w Smartpower 2.0 A64 3200 Asus A8N-SLI mobo 2x1GB Gigaram PC3200 Radeon X300SE (I know, I know, but all I need right now is dual display) I clocked the card from 325/400 to 425/500 using ATI tool. It was stable at 450/550, but I didn't want to push...

FWIW, I researched, purchased and assembled my first machine about a month ago, and I did my homework. I'm fairly sure the answer to your second question is no. You can get 4 SATA 3.0 slots on a non-SLI mobo (the Epox you mentioned) but not 8. The second controller required for the additional...