Just got mine from ZZF on friday.
Here's the stepping:
Here's the stock heatsink which I gave a little lapping love.
And here's my results.
I'm pretty sure the board is my limiting factor here.. I can't get it stable at 290mhz for the life of me.. Tried upping the LDT and NB...
So today I upgraded from my 9600XT to a 6800 vanilla.
so happy as can be im gaming away and BAM my screen goes black. no response from the system at all, so i have to hold the power button to get it to turn off. I get back into windows and there's no "system has recovered from a serious...
I'm in the market for an Athlon X2 this summer and I was hoping for the SN25P.
Well I went and checked the BIOS revision history and sure enough...
FN25S01K
Checksum: FA00 Date: 2005/05/11
Added "LED Bright" function
Added Support of Dual...
My friend found this while driving to work one day.. never really noticed before. So we went to snap some photos..
Here are a couple and the rest can be found here
There are full size images there as well.
Onto the pictures.
I took a bunch of black and white and a couple color...
Well lately (last 2 days) my hard drive has been making some strange noises. Mobile drives in my experiences aren't usually that audible.. This thing has been making some pretty loud CLUNK kinds of noises. I was planning to upgrade it eventually because it's only 4200 rpm but uhh... I wasn't...
I was checking out the new seagates with NCQ, I did a little reading on them but I still want to know something..
Does this require a special controller or can I use any old SATA controller and still see the so-called performance gain? Is there anything else I'm missing that I'd need...
Ok I do freelance computer repair and I've been doing it for a few years now.. I thought I had saw it all until now. I have been messing with this computer for 3 days now and I've exhausted every possible option that I can think of, including googling for answers.
The computer itself is a...
So I get an email today from the college I will be attending as a freshman next fall.. I'm going to be attending NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) as a Computer Science major. They send me an email stating they have a strict requirement for the computer you can have. Thinking nothing of...
The reason behind the subject of this thread will become apparent pretty soon here.
First, let me start with the story.
I was sitting around at a friend's house, not much to do.. Someone gets an idea that they want to watch a movie that I had on my laptop. My friend has a 53inch Hitatchi...
I searched around a bit but I did not see a similiar problem. First, system specs:
IC7-MAX3
2.8C
One optical drive
One hard drive
3 80mm case fans
1 92mm tornado
430 watt trupower antec
radeon 9700
Heres the problem.. I'm trying to overclock it a bit and seem to be having some...
I received my laptop Monday morning from JandR.com.
The packing was pretty good, no room to move around.
In the box I found the laptop and a box of accessories.
Contents: manuals, phone cable(yay), AC adapter, and the lovely battery.
The real goods:
This laptop is not a...