interesting brainstorming going on.. all i would be glad of is an pci-e 16x 90 degree angle adpater to mount my vga card pcb 90 degrees turned/bent, don't even mind blockin all other adapters with my full functional atx mainboard. (pcb parallel to mainboard) with an 3way sli board using the bottom s...

@angelkiller, i like you sarcasm, reminds me of myself. remember those days, when expansion slot were used to expand the pc's capabilities? well i had 1-2 ethernet nics, a sound card, a video card (just dumped an old Riva TNT 32 a week ago) to fill those slots. nowadays, well there's just one huge v...

you're correct the old amd 64 4000+ are single core cpu's.

- no gaming ...

I will check the e5200 combo with asus p5q-vm and 2 gb ram

thanks for helping!

@efcoins2 - thanks for your input. I do not think it is heat related, this system was running fine for over 1 year now. i can stress test the cpu/gpu and have a freeze after 10 minutes or 2 hours - completly random, temps not going over 38-45, or I can surf the net & listen to music for 4 hours stra...

dear forum, have been reading along for quite some time - great place here! now this is my first post, any help would be appreciated: situation: i've got a nice silent (dead silent) rig running in an older coolermaster tower (damped): amd 64 4000+ with msi k8 diamond and arctic freezer cooler 64, 2 ...