The Celeron M is the same as a Pentium M with half the cache and fewer power saving features. Which means you need a Pentium M motherboard to use it. I read a review (sorry can't recall the site) comparing two identical notebooks with the only difference being a Celeron M CPU and a Pentium M CPU, an...

I have a 5 metre VGA cable, which gives perfect reproduction at 1280x1024 on TFT. Just make sure the cable is shielded - more expensive, but at first I bought an unshielded one, and the signal was unacceptable.

I think they are the same - just with different connecter

in some review on here regarding the SP97, the reviewer mentions there is no difference in temperature whether a 80mm or 92mm fan is used on the heatsink. Also, the 92mm is a bit more noisy. While both are good heatsinks, I would go for the Zalman.

My ASUS VIA chipset results in BSODs if it gets over 40C

This one's been mentioned before - price tag isn't too bad. Haven't noticed any owner's opinions about it on here, though.

Perhaps when I get back to England next year, I'll buy one.

http://www.bvm-store.com/ProductDetail. ... ductId=149

Thanks for the info jojo. So if the cool n' quiet makes the standard athlon64 idle at 22W, what will it do with the 35W mobile athlon64?

it said at the bottom of that benchmark chart that the AMD cpu was running on a modified ASUS A7V8X-MX, which is the board I have. Wonder what they modified

DG wrote: Don't know what to say, i have a radeon 9800pro, 1 samsung hdd 80gb, barton 2500+, nforce 2 mobo, 1 cd rom 1 cdrw/dvd, audigy 2. 300w isn't enought for my pc, IMO...

That setup will use hardly any power (less than 100w). I have roughly the same setup and use a 200w psu.

I got a similar problem to this with my barton system on an Asus micro-atx motherboard. It was unstable in the same way as yours when running at 333mhz bus, with 3 different sets of RAM and different PSUs. I think it might be because the chipset was not being adequately cooled. I turned my bus speed...

You could go for an Alpha one. I have one of those in my micro-atx and there's over and there's about 4cm headroom above the 80cm cpu fan. Dunno about the width of your case compared to mine though. Alpha heatsinks are also designed with sucking fans in mind which should benefit your plan. BUT I don...

You could always ditch the 40mm fan, cut an 80mm hole in the case above the CPU, screw a panaflo to the case, and use this to cool the heatsink

I have the PATA version. The 9C initial temp doesn't make sense, maybe the sensor isn't ready at that stage, I dunno. The HD does seem hotter than 30C after it's started though, which worries me a little.

OK, calm down - it's a big manual, but nothing to panic over. What it indicates is that you do NOT have to go into the RAID BIOS tool if you are not configuring a RAID, which sounds like common sense to me. If you don't configure any disks in the RAID tool, then you will automatically have a non-RAI...

Well it sounds like your hard disk was working ok at the beginning of this topic. Can you go into the non-SATA BIOS and configure the IDE settings like I said, or switch them all to auto? You usually enter this BIOS by holding down the delete key during the computer boot-up.

I think you have misunderstood some things here, JVM. Firstly, the message about Primary slave failing is no big deal. That's not your hard disk. Your BIOS probably has something configured for position "2." below, but it is empty. So ensure position "2." in your BIOS is "none" to get rid of that me...

I've found my spinpoint boots up at 9C and goes up to 30C under load, haha

just downloaded DTemp, and mine shows 26C idle, 30C under moderate load, but it feels hotter. Hope my temp readings aren't proportional to yours!

Who said the temps of this drive are lower than average HD? My IDE one runs very hot indeed - in fact, I am beginning to suspect it was the cause of my plague of BSOD recently, so I have had to rig up a ghetto fan to cool it :( My Seagate 7200.7 seems to run much cooler. Sorry to wander off topic a ...

exhausting hot psu air into your case is not a good idea - your case temps will go up lots. I tried that once before, and my temps didn't stop rising, haha. Run a test if you like, it's pretty easy to do.

Here's one I just whipped off google:

www.materiel.net

Someone pointed out that the 1.2ghz version is available in Germany. I googled around and found some places in Germany selling them, but not really anywhere else. Dunno why.

Korean memory manufacturers only make the memory chips - they get those assembled on the sticks in Taiwan or some place by another company.

Graham

I would say avoid the Samsung. I have two sticks, and they are both unstable at 333mhz with my Asus board. Could be Asus's fault, but who knows...

Barton 2600+

Idle 42C
Load 49C

Palomino 1800+

Idle 32C
Load 42C

Both using Alpha PAL8045. Barton has generic thermal paste, Palomino has Arctic 3. I'm a bit disappointed with my Barton idle temps.

I've just build a system, and it keeps rebooting randomly in XP also. I used samsung 2700 RAM and an Asus motherboard - how can you tell whether the RAM is the problem or not in a situation like this? Use Memtest86 t test your RAM. Run it for a few hours at least. No errors are acceptable. If you g...

Thanks Ralf, that should put me on track. It could well be my psu, which is a cheapo $15 chinese one, temporarily in my system until MikeC's legendary modded seasonic arrives on these shores ;) MGP make sure your Alpha is firmly tightened, and that you have the correct nylon standoffs installed. I f...

I've just build a system, and it keeps rebooting randomly in XP also. I used samsung 2700 RAM and an Asus motherboard - how can you tell whether the RAM is the problem or not in a situation like this?

I have a 7200.7 and I know what you mean about the seeks. I cannot decouple it, because I have a mini-itx case - but putting that box in a cupboard pretty well kills any sound. I've just got a new setup, including a Samsung P80 drive, which has been mentioned a lot in these forums as being one of th...

Evo,

I have read reviews on normal watercooling kits tried without a radiator fan, and the temperatures were between 5 and 10 degrees higher than usual, which was around 40C in their setup. So it doesn't sound too difficult to achieve.

Graham