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Impressive, however ive seen Radeon 9600's get 100 or even 150mhz Overclocks on the core and GF-FX 5600's getting 50 - 100Mhz clocks too with stock cooling and no mods, 9600's especially. However its still a very good clock, a memory OC will give u better speed boosts i think....

try upgading to MSN 6 and see if the problem persists then....

XP Pro Sp1 all the way. Dont forget the Via chipset drivers and the Catalyst 3.5's!

softFSB will be ur best bet...

It might just be the game was designed in this way, not exactly the video cards fault. You could mess around with the graphical settings....

Silver dagger, The way to fix this is to use Disk managmenet in Admionistrator tools and re-name each of the drive letter wise. I had the same problem, and thats how i got round it!

They are 2 different peices of software. Alcohol is designed to by-pass protections on protected CD's and replicate them on the coppied CD so that you can play games using your "backup". Nero is usefull for making a music CD or just a normal data CD, but it cant duplicate any of the modern game protection! So you have to ask yourself a question, do you want to duplicate protected games or just copy random files onto CD?

isnt the 440agp a 440lX/BX chipset specific driver? And did you clean install Windows again or just move the HDD? Always when its a new mobo u shuld ALWAYS re-install windows, period!

im running the 4.46 drivers, is there any point upgrading to the 4.47 drivers....? BTW, i shuld mention i got a KT266A chipset!

Seeing the Video myself, and the Halo PC preview, i gotta say they look DAMN good. Probaly one of the reasons why i need a new rig!

usually, by rule of thub, if it cn do 266 FSB, like urs, it can, theoretically do up to AthlonXP 2600+. However, if the BIOS will recognize it is another problem....

all the updates worked for me. There was, if i recall correctly, a specific windows update that dealt with quite a few games.... and HL was one of them...

look for firmware update. My artec drive had the same problems under nForce boards, but a firmware update fixed it!

What Xp are u using. Ice heard that XP home doesnt support HTT properley?

500US???? My god people, i can get my hands on PC3200 (DDR400) 512MB for around £45.... and thats only around $75.....

Ever considered Zalman flowers..... Its near silent except for the large 92mm fan spinning slowly above it. I think its only aropund 17-20db noise....

I agree with hood, The Thoroughbreds run much cooler and therefore u can afford to run a quiter fan. I would search around for a throoughbred B since they run very cool and are great overclockers! Also, may i just say that that the AthlonMP's were first built on th thoroughbred cores.....

Thnx mate, Alec, i found out it sais VP6 on all the files, if u hold ur cursor over the file it does say vp6 at the end! i cant seem to send an e-mail, invalid_session error....

Alec, i cant seem to download those drivers.... Can u give me a working link? Also, how do i know if i installed the drivers..... there isnt an entry in the add-romvove programs....

resort back to Catalyst 3.0, they seem more stable with DX9....

it depends on stepping. JUHIB/JUIB, then ur out of luck, they suck. Anything else then ur ok!

Overclocking does come to mind here, Especially if you have a Thoroughbred B processor. One of my friends has his 2100 Tbred B @ 2700 speeds, just on air cooling. If you have decent air cooling u can reach good overclocks with a Tbred B. Get a 2100 (and make sure its Tbred and overclock! The way to tell is the following: 1)First thing to do is to see if it's a genneral Thoroughbred (A or . This is easily done! The older Palomino's have the CPU info on the actual die itself, whereas the TBreds have the info on a black sticker. 2)you can see the code through the packaging (you may need a magnafying glass tho). The only way to tell between the revisions is the 5 letter code on the last line of the black sticker. one with the 5th letter ending with an A is a Tbred A (eg AIUGA) one with the 5th letter ending with an B is a Tbred B (eg AIUGB) Go for any of the CPU's with the "B" stepping!

Hey all, Browsin the web i came accross this beauty of a mobo: http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA0NjA3NDc3N3hmTWc4TlQzcnFfMV8xX2wuZ2lm Quote: HardOCP has come across a layout graphic for an upcoming dual Socket A motherboard reportedly from Asus, supporting an "nForce FX" chipset. Not much is known regarding this new chipset, but The Inquirer surmises that it's likely an based on the NV34 version of the GeForce FX GPU, albeit in integrated-market form (obviously). The motherboard itself features an AMD 8131 "Hyper Transport PCI-X Tunnel" chip that will allow the user to use both 32-bit/33MHz and 64-bit/66MHz PCI cards on the board at the same time. That looks like one sweet mobo. I think it will add some lifetime to the Socket A architechture. Also another quote from [H]: Quote: nForceFX Chipset for Dual Socket A: A picture is worth a thousand words, right? In this case it very might well be. We came into possession of the below graphic this weekend. It shows a dual Socket A board sporting the "nForceFX chipset". The board layout is obviously an Asus board as the "BlueMagic PCI Slot" is present on the board. Dual channel DDR is present as would be expected but the board is unique in several respects compared to boards we see today. A nForceFX southbridge is shown as well, remember this gives you a HyperTransport connection. The addition of the AMD 8131 chip makes perfect sense as well as it is a PCI-X tunnel that is HyperTransport friendly. The 8131 would give the user the ability to use both 32-bit/33MHz PCI cards at the same time while utilizing a 64-bit/66MHz card, among other things. PATA, SATA, and SATA RAID controllers are all present as well. This has the makings of a fine DIY server board for sure. Not to mention a fine workstation board...or possibly a really nice desktop box as it will most likely support AGP8X. ATX12V friendly too.

it is a mouthwatering propect tho. As i said, it will add some life to the Socket A architecture and knowing that via's LAST socket A chipset will be the KT400A, the markets free for nVidia and SiS!

Th only difference is in clock speed.... nothing else i changed. PS i got this info from some Hexus.net admin/reviewer!