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I just put together a system with an Asus M3N78-PRO and 2.3ghz X2 EE 4400. So far I'm stable at 2.95ghz with stock cooling and a mild voltage increase, FSB at 257mhz. Has HDMI output for fancy setups and comes with a dongle for DVI and a bracket for VGA. The board is 105$ at newegg, will...

Heya, I posted a while back about some iMac's at a school where I work that were going to be junked since they had busted CD-ROM's (the cost of repair being higher than the value of the iMac's). I managed to get 'em going again using standard CD-ROM's, and was given one of the iMac's in...

Heya. I'm working at a Mac only school for a while. They've got a bunch of older G3 iMac's some graphites, most a step down (not quite as old as original iMac's) that they're using to set up mini-labs in classrooms They've got at least four of these machines that have busted CD-ROM's, and...

Thanks for the advice, but the fan is running fine, the heatsink is attached properly, and I've tried different molex connectors (on both machines). I'm pretty good at the elimination game :). I'm really stumped as to why it keeps restarting the VPU when I reboot after driver installs. All I...

Heya. I noticed my 9800 Pro was artifacting when I was playing Doom 3 (hard to explain, but flickering around edges and the like). Warcraft 3 had the problem to a much lesser degree when looking at 'fog of war'. Halo also had the problem (to the same extent Doom 3 did), but other games (UT2004...

Sorry, the start is happening slow --I don't want to just post pictures of some cut panels I've cut and parts I've got ready, and that's all I have since I had to start rebuilding my deck (rotted :| ) right after I started this project ;). As soon as I have enough done that pictures will give...

There's actually a HardOCP article that says how to do this, way back in the Pentium 2 / Celeron A days (for some reason I think the article was about Pentium 2 HSF's though). Erik

Surprisingly few things, given the amount of systems I build and how all of my personal systems get overclocked. I watched as a friend fried my p3-550e (which was an awesome overclocker, I had it up to 792mhz) by using it to test his asus slocket card. For stuff I personally killed...

I don't buy cases without trays. At the very least a removeable mobo tray makes it much easier to install a HSF on the CPU. It makes pretty much every other hardware change easier too. Erik

June 3rd, 2004: Materials Got some of the major materials for my case project. -3ft x 4ft sheet of acrylic -6ft of L-shaped aluminum -two sawhorses (I ran out of work tables. This seemed like a good solution) -four clamps I already have all tools needed, except for some dremel rotary...

I'm sure you've checked but just in case you haven't: you've got the power button connected to the right motherboard leads, yah? Check to make sure you don't have any shorts. Probably not a short if you can get it to turn on with the trick you mentioned, but could be the floppy drive being...