Recent content by Matrix187

I bought my 6800gt / Athlon 64 3400+ Clawhammer computer last July, and I plan to keep it 2 more years, so a total of 3 years. Once college starts (2007), I will build a new computer for vista.

Would it make sense if the same psu worked on a 1.6 ghz athlon xp (old old one) with an asus board? The only new things I have are a gigabyte nforce 3 250gb socket 939 /w a 3000+ venice. Would the new set up use more power? I also noticed my old motherboard /w the pre-barton athlon xp doesnt...

Sometimes on boot up it freezes also, but it still seems like power instability.

Ive isolated the problem. Whenever I put a cd in the cd drive (plextor or lite-on), and it starts spinning, the computer locks up. Maybe PSU problem?

Specs: Maxtor 40 gig 7200rpm -3000+ A64 Venice -GIGABYTE GA-K8NSC-939 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb -Stock heatsink, Arctic Silver 5, idle temp of 30°C in the bios. -ATI Radeon 9800 pro -1gig corsair xms Ok, so heres the problem. I just did a fresh install and the computer works for the...

That card would be perfect, it can play doom 3 with high settings, and most likely wow with everything on high. You could check around for some benchmarks at anandtech.com, or the doom 3 benchmarks here on hard ocp.

This new AMD based system is for my cousin since he is still using a athlon xp 1.6 ghz, but he already has a 9800 pro and corsair xms memory so all he needs is the above. Im sure this setup wil greatly increase performance, thanks for all of the help.

Will I be able to overclock this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103537 using this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813128286 to 2.0 ghz without upping the voltage?

Yes, its 256 bit, I would believe it would atleast have the same performance, but better when you unlock the pipelines (assuming you do).

Its surprising how close the x850 actually is though for an older gen.

I can do 400/1100 stable on my leadtek 6800gt, but, is it bad for my lcd screen when it flickers during the coolbits test or when it finds the max overclock?

Leadtek, gigabyte, too bad theres not bfg though =)

Agreed, but it does make sense that it would be an ultra, otherwise they wouldnt make such an extreme breed of air cooling.

Im waiting until next gen, it seems like my 6800 gt runs everything perfectly fine, and you can still have everything on high. Current setup: s754 A64 3400+ Clawhammer, 1 gig Corsair XMS 2-2-2-5, SB Audigy, MSI K8T-Neo, etc

I have a spare Geforce 4 ti4600, bought back in the day when it kicked extreme ass and was $400 =)