Shimano

I'm reading this cause I've fried two 9600 xt cards and trying to find out why. DO NOT CHANGE THE VOLTAGE TO 3.3bold text 1.5 is where it should run. And Smart Doctor is anything but....or maybe not. I kept getting agrivating messages about voltages and shutting down Forgotten Battles till I used pitched smart doctor. Also noted memory running hotter than GPU. Asus tech thought that was too high too. I guess I'm saying be careful and don't throw out your old vid card yet, you may need it one day. I have...twice.

I have to differ with the opinion on FSB settings. A7N8X Deluxe AMD 2500 Barton 200x10.5 multiplier 2-sticks 512 LL Corsair 3200 Asus 9600 XT - but not for long it's a piece of crap I run this puppy with the FSB set at 200, never change it That puts the Ram, the MB and the CPU in sync. The difference in test scores between running the CPU at 2100 vs 2200 is only about 10% increase. Not worth the instability to me. But... when I bump the FSB from 333 to 400 performance and scores jump about 30%. The system reads it as an AMD 3000 and it performs like one. I can run the CPU at 2200 but it crashes when I play Forgotten Battles. It has run like this for six months now and I have never had any issues related to overclocking. The reason I stopped by here is problems w/ the 9600xt and was looking for compatiblity issues w/ the A7N8X. Recommendation Check Power Supply Be sure you have a good heatsink and fan Check Bios settings - this can cause blue screens too Put a heatsink fan combo on the FSB I took off the HS that came on the board and put a on Vantec copper orb that is really meant for a vid card. Good luck and happy gaming