Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug - Seems to Okay Now

["Wonkey Donkey" <wonkey_donkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug - Seems to Okay Now
>

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>> 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

Slightly off topic, but out of curiosity David, which boards are you using 
now ?

Steve




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