I'm glad I dared to mention the XP Power settings then! Anyway, just to follow up, as hopefully this thread will be useful for anyone else considering buying the AOpen AK89 Max m/b, I received the following reply from AOpen (I asked them whether the AK89 supported C'n'Q): Hi David, Thank you for you...

I don't want to be accused of trying to teach a granny to suck eggs, but I assume you set the Windows XP power management to Minimal Power Management as well? Other than that, bad news indeed. I was so pleased, and now i'm upset again. :( Let me know if you get any response from AOpen or AMD. I emai...

Excellent news Mike, fingers crossed that the rest works equally well. How many sticks of memory do you use? My budget might just about stretch to 1gb, but i can either get one stick of vanilla or a pair of 512mb Crucial or Kingston Value - something I obviously don't want to do if it's going to per...

Thanks Mike. Well, now I'm upset. See, I'm mostly keen on the AOpen because I can get one half-price (maybe i'll tell you where after I decide!) which probably means a saving of £40 ($60) over the Asus board I'd buy otherwise. Anyway, I'm sure I'd read someone on the SPCR Forum say it COULD do Cool...

For anyone considering using Raid striping - make sure you back up everything of value on the striped drives. I found out the hard way when one of my striped drives died and I lost everything on both. The slight performance benefit certainly wasn't worth the trauma it caused me! It was quiet though,...

Thanks for your help so far, can someone confirm though that the AOpen AK89 will definitely do Cool'n'Quiet? I'd be gutted if I buy it and it won't. So far as cases go, i looked at several, including the Antec AMB or BQE. But the Acousticase comes with the pre-cut Acoustipack material, and if you ta...

Right, I've been lurking and reading for some time now, and I think I'm about ready to buy, so any last minute crys of "DON'T BUY THAT" would be appreciated right about now. Here's what I've specced: AOpen AK89 Max Athlon 64 3000 Zalman CNPS7000B-?? 512Mb PC3200 (Possibly Crucial/Kingston Value) Aco...

http://www.globalwin.com.tw/products/power/index.html Does anyone have, or know about these PSUs? Certainly the claimed 18dba on the Onyx sounds very impressive, though i know that doesn't mean much, if anything. www.overclockers.co.uk are selling the Sapphire ones here in the UK, but can't find the...