Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug - Seems to Okay Now

["Morris, David \(Allvac, UK\)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I re-checked prices of kit from some of my favourite on-line 
> stores and decided that I couldn't afford to go for new kit 
> with the expense of
> DDR2 RAM and a PCI-E grpahics card so hunted round on ebay 
> and managed to get myself an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe plus a Athlon 
> XP 3200 for under £100 all told.  The RAM I have fits that 
> board so I don't have to go to the expense of more memory but 
> I decided to invest in a Zalman AlCu Flower from thecoolingshop.com.

Good luck with the A7N8X board. I've been through three of those. I found them extremely unreliable when it came to booting. They also had a buggy bios which was prone to zap the board when doing a 'save settings and exit'. The recommendation was to save settings and return to the menu then exit without saving settings. All mine were rev 2.0 mobos. The whole experience put me off nVidia / AMD for a while to such an extent that my current Windows box and my home Linux server are both Intel chipset boards and (touch wood) have been rock solid.

The Zalman flower 'sinks are nice though... Don't move the box too far with them on though. I had an original copper flower which weighed a ton and was prone to dislodging the CPU if I transported the box.

-- 
David

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