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This is not directly directed to you nmX.Memnoch, but this is what I would like to say: I do OC as much as I can (10% less then stable, so not 3.66GHz but 3.33Gz for my setup) to play the latest games on a not so powerful Video card, but then, I make big jumps from 2.0 to 3.33GHz (RAM 800 to 1000MHz with the same or better timings then stock) and still on my OCed 7200GS (yeah, don’t start please ). Sure it lowers life of components, but most of us will not use the components more then 2 years. To bring an E8400 to 3.6GHz will not require more voltage in most cases, so I would say it would have no negative effect at all to set it 20% over its stock speed. Also a P35 can handle everything just fine, even with tight RAM/chipset timings and the stock cooling . By the way, that Celeron 300A idea, that never stopped. I started with 486DX2 50MHz to get them on 80MHz, then the biggest OCer after that was the Pentium pro 180 that could hit twice the stock speed by a voltage mod (as the design was not 3.3 but 5volt) and brought it over 300Mhz . Then there was the Celeron 2 600Mhz, way up to 1130MHz. These days we have the E1200 and the E21xx series that OC to twice the stock speed, and with tight RAM/chipset timings you will get less performance loss because of the smaller cache, and that’s in contradiction to other sites that say that a CPU with 1MB shared second level cache doesn’t give you any thing more over 3GHz.

No, he definitely meant that the integrated video would affect how much you could overclock. That´s right, you have to remember taht in most cases you OC the Video core too.

No they don’t, the next gen will. Even there highest clocked 630MHz 7150 GPU will not outperform onboard Intel, even AMDs 690 series for AMD CPUs will do better still. The nVidia GPU has just more features, that’s true.

ASUS thought to be smart en just delete it out of some BIOS updates for some models. But they didn’t realize, or they didn’t want to see, the problem they were creating on the other side, let alone slowing the whole system down and that even with Vista...

That depends on what you do! Now you are talking about OCing the E8400 as high as you can, so you need other stuff for that, nothing more .EDIT: by the way, the mobo I advised you here cost about 89USD, ad a simple PCI-E 64bit card on it and you will pay the same price as a board with G33/G35 chipset.

No board with onboard video will OC really good, but Intel will release there new G45 in a few months from now, giving you a 10 Unified shader processors . For now it’s the G35 or G33 that you can buy. But, if you have a case for a "full" ATX board then a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L with a cheap PCI-E video card will do way more in performance and overclocking!

Indeed, that would work, but it could be hard to find a BIOS with AHCI fucntion for ASUS (with ICH9).

Pues, porque no usas el babelfish? Why don´t you use babelfish?

Do you know that: the product cost of the chip itself is about 8 USD and that the slowest model at 800MHz will be sold for 20USD (in batch packages). The 1.86 version will be sold for 135 USD as Intel finds it a competitive price they say.

Try also CPU-Z, Everest, Sandra and more .

Keep a DVD/CD in it and it should be fine. It’s just a problem with sticky "center-plates".I’m sure you cleaned the lens and dusted it out so I can’t think of any thing else... EDIT: Hmmm... you didn´t...

Yeah I forgot to write that indeed.

But you have a PCI-E or at least 64bit/66MHz PCI for sure. The VIA chipset on the 4COREDUAL-SATA2 doesn’t do more then "normal" PCI and a "more or less" PCI-E 4x sloth that will be only compatible with a few VGA cards and not with the AGP card in use and a PCI-E add-on card.

I would forget the setup you have now and start from scratch to avoid compatibility problems in hardware and software. This ASRock motherboard was designed for people that had a good AGP card already, but we are talking about 2.5 or even more years here that this motherboard was released. Good CPU, but The new E8xx0 line will have the same performance for the price as the E6xxx series, while the E6xxx will have less features. You could do that but you will be slowing down your CPU. The best performance you will get when RAM runs 1:1 or faster with the FSB of the CPU, so, a 1333MT/s CPU will prefer 667MHz (DDR) or better. Old but still useful, however, it’s AGP and a board with a "not to bad" RAID controller will have PCI-E. Even a 7200GS/64bit 256MB PCI-E will outperform the GF4 card and that for under 30€. Most of them are passively cooled so you will have less noise too. The onboard VIA solution works, but with that all is said. To avoid compatibility problems with your older hardware and future hardware it’s advised to stay a way from VIA. Via already announced to pull it self out of the Personal Computer Chipset market and that should ring a bell to most of us.So, in general what I’m saying is: When you want performance like it should be and no compatibility problems then setup your computer like this: - Good motherboard with P35 chipset and ICH9R - E8xx0 Series CPU - 1.8v DDR2 667 or 800MHz RAM (2 sticks to work in 128bit RAM mode) - Simple PCI-E Video card - New Power supply if the one you have now is older then 2 to 3 years

Intel does that a bit better then nvidia as far as I know.

It is known to us that the section is dead. To merge it with another forum part would not be a solution although “Customizing Windows” would fit best, but we stand open for any other suggestions.

The Q9300 CPU would perform best of those 3 CPUs in your case, however I can’t tell you much about "Streaming audio 2312 listenering" and that CPU.

That depends, I sell basically 800MHz as more computers go out with onboard VGA and there you will have a big performance gain. EDIT: By the way, onboard VGA will be faster at 800MHz RAM setting, also throughput benefits a bit over 1:1 setting, as long as the timings don’t go worse...

yes, that should work, but I still don’t get it why it gave read errors except for a faulty CD... I think he did that.

Looks like your motherboard is really messed up. I would try a BIOS update. The RAID setup doesn’t show any thing as you don’t have the drives set in RAID. Also reset your BIOS to default, could be a faulty BIOS setting...

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I think I should move this to the funny farm and laugh about it!

That’s true and a known "problem". What you can do is download the latest firmware for your drive, which could solve your problem.

I will if it is needed but the SP3 will be released soon so what´s the point to dispute about it.

They are called "leaking caps" and look like this.