Watch your chips with those ORBs Brian, a lot of ppl say that its really easy to crush the die. I haven't had any such problems myself though.. I really love that "twist & lock" mechanism on them.
 
--Cynan.

I haven't had a problem with em. I've heard the Durons and Athlons have a bigger risk of crushing the die. The Durons especially are problematic with getting the die crushed. If I'm worried, I saw a little tip about making pads for the P3/Celermine out of electrical tape. The biggest issue with the orbs is having enough space around the socket for them. I may file down the orbs on the side a little as they're really close to a capacitor or two.
 
Pimpin, try setting the drives to auto, if you haven't done so already.
Also, let it sit for a while and do something else, before you start going nuts. Shut it down and leave it be sometimes fixes things, I have no clue why though.

They fit fine on the VP6. Dang they look good. heh. I've actually been thinking I'll replace them with something "supposidly" better.. I'm getting around 46C atm at full load, and when it was really hot that weekend, 49C.
 
I am about to fit another case fan though, that might bring it down a bit.
 
--Cynan.

its not overclocking a modem, and no you can't btw. its called upgrading a modem, the modem i gave you cody has already been upgraded from 33.6 to 56k.

i got my 3d mark 2000 & 2001 scores , ed tweak my comp last night.
3d mark 2000=5695
3d mark 2001=3006

Verrrrrrrry nice!

My PC (The one that I use)
PIII 1Ghz FCPGA 133Mhz
Asus Cusl-2
512MB 133Mhz Ram
64MB Geforce 2 (Can't remember the make not that it matters)
2 x 75GB IBM DTLA HDD 2MB Cache ATA 100
Yamaha CRW 2100 16x10x40 CD RW Internal IDE
Toshiba 16x40 DVD ROM Drive
Creative SB Live! Player 5.1
100Mbps 3Com NIC
HP Travan 8GB Dat
Running W2k Server SP-2
 
Well might not be the highest config out there for those of you people who knows more than enough for my work. And most importantly It does not crash! I only have to reboot occasionaly due to MS patches or new SW.

well my burner died so i got to get a new one, i was thinking plextor
but i am not sure and i did have another rig to list but it got stolen from me so i will list all the specs to my rigs
 
 
(go-go)
mobo:abit-kt7a-raid
processor:athlon 850
ram:256 megs
Floppy:it burnt up
cdr:went bad
cd rom:memorex 48x
video card:nividia geforce 2
sound card:yamaha
modem:best data 33.6@56k
monitor:17"hp
 
 
this was my second rig
(beater)
mobo:intel
processor:celery 466
ram:rimm 64 megs
hardrive:quatum fireball 6 gig
dvd rom:genaric
floppy:genaric
on board graphics:4 meg
but that one ws stolen
 
btw ok when i am in chat rooms and i play mp3's and i hit talk my sound card plays them through the mic

Ordered a GF3 (Leadtek) but cancelled the order at the last minute so i'm gonna decide on something else. Here's my systems:
 
 
mAIN sYSTEm:
 
MotherBoard - Abit VH6 Socket 370 (1 AMR, 1 AGP, 5 PCI, 1 ISA)
Fan/Cooling - (CPU) Alpha PEP66T 38cfm Heatsink/Fan
Processor(s) - Intel Pentium III 1000@1125MHz (1.13GHz)
Hard Drive - Seagate 30GB 7200rpm IDE (Three Partitions)
Memory - 768MB Total. Three Sticks 256MB SDRAM PC133
Video Card - nVidia GeForce 2 MX 32MB AGP (Det. 12.41)
Modem - Phoebe Micro 56K V.92 PCI
Sound Card - VIA Audio (OnBoard)
MPEG Decoder - Sigma Designs REALMagic Hollywood Plus! PCI
Ethernet Adapter - RealTek 8029(AS) 10BaseT Ethernet Adapter
Floppy Drive - Mitsumi 3.5" Floppy Drive
DVD-ROM - Pioneer DVD-115 16x DVD ROM Drive IDE
CD-RW - Plextor Plexwriter 12x/10x/32x CD-RW Drive IDE
Power Supply(s) - Generic 300w ATX, Generic 235w ATX
Monitor - 19" NEC Multisync (Dead!) Using 15" Compaq 1525 Now.
Resolution - 1024x768x32bpp @ 72Hz (Using Cleartype)
Operating System - Windows XP Professional (5.01.2481)
 
3DMark 2000 v1.1 - Default Settings - 6830 3DMarks
 
Other System:
 
MotherBoard - Abit VH6 Socket 370 (1 AGP, 3 PCI, 2 ISA)
Fan/Cooling - (CPU) Generic Slot 1 HSF Combo (12VDC)
Processor(s) - Intel Pentium II 333@416MHz
Hard Drive - Fujitsu 8.4GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Memory - 192MB SDRAM PC133
Video Card - nVidia Riva TNT 16MB AGP Video Card (Det. 6.67)
Sound Card - Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE64 ISA
Ethernet Adapter - RealTek 8029(AS) 10BaseT Ethernet Adapter
CD-ROM - Teac 32x CDROM
Power Supply(s) - Generic 250w ATX
Monitor - 14" Packard Hell Monitor
Resolution - 1024x768x32bpp @ 60Hz
Operating System - Windows NT 4 Workstation (4.00.1381;SP6)

I'm still waiting for the 2nd damn cpu to come in!
The store I'm getting from finally got it in, but the stupid morons where they shipped it from totally screwed up the entire shipment of parts they sent, and my cpu was a slot 1. Obviously, a s370 duallie board will not be using that one, so it got sent back.
That company hasn't done too good of a job at keeping us informed, so the store ordered another cpu from a different company.
If I'd know the bullsh!t I'd be going through, I might have just bought two new cpu's, but I thought that companies would let their employees know the difference between a socket cpu and a slot.
 
--end rant--

Brian: Try www.tccomputers.com i've had excellent service from them.

Heh. I've traded in about $110 worth of hardware in exchange for the cpu, otherwise I'd get it from that site.
But, hey, thanx for the tip anyway. One of the guys at the store used to be a classmate back in elementry, and tries to cut me deals sometimes, plus they were the only ones in town that you can trade in hardware toward new stuff.

Well guys, I'm back to using my old P3 667, the guy next door finally bought my P3 1GHz for $250 USD. I built my Dad a computer from parts lying around and I'm getting ready to build my girlfriend a computer so I removed 2 sticks of 256 from my computer (gotta buy a stick of 512 anyway), so now i got 256MB RAM. Bit of a downgrade huh?
 
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Main Computer
 
MotherBoard - Abit VH6 Socket 370 (1 AMR, 1 AGP, 5 PCI, 1 ISA)
Fan/Cooling - (CPU) Alpha PEP66T 38cfm Heatsink/Fan
Processor(s) - Intel Pentium III 667@750MHz
Hard Drive - Seagate 30GB 7200rpm IDE (Partitioned into three)
Memory - 256MB Total. Three Sticks 256MB SDRAM PC133
Video Card - nVidia GeForce 2 MX 32MB AGP (OC: Core: 215, Mem: 210)
Modem - Phoebe Micro 56K V.92 PCI
Sound Card - VIA Audio (OnBoard)
MPEG Decoder - Sigma Designs REALMagic Hollywood Plus! PCI
Ethernet Adapter - RealTek 8029(AS) 10BaseT Ethernet Adapter
Removeable Storage - Mitsumi 3.5" Floppy Drive
DVD-ROM - Pioneer DVD-115 16x DVD ROM Drive IDE
CD-RW - Plextor Plexwriter 12x/10x/32x CD-RW Drive IDE
Power Supply - Generic 300w ATX, Generic 235w ATX
Monitor - 19" NEC Multisync (Dead!) Using 15" Compaq 1525 Now.
Resolution - 1024x768x16bpp @ 85Hz
Operating System - Windows XP Professional (5.01.2481)
Detonator Drivers: 12.41 Win2k WHQL
Pagefile - 210MB Min. / 210MB Max. Located in Root Directory (C:\)
 
More Specs.
 
Overclocked - 667MHz @ 750MHz
Front Side Bus - 133MHz @ 150MHz
Multiplier - 5.0 @ 5.0
Core Voltage - 1.70
CPU Temperature (Idle) - 84°F
CPU Temperature (Full Load) - 96°F
Case Temperature (Average) - 71°F
Fan RPM (Average) - 6892rpm

..

Hmm Havnt been around for awhile...surprised to see this thread still growing.

OK i just retired the full tower now i am down to a mid tower , but it's coolmy sound card is finally dead too and i am runnin windows me for the time being. but i since we are gonna get cable in our town i want to set up a counter strike server so i am holding the full tower for that.
 
 
server specs this is what i hope to have
 
duel duron 900
mother board is what ever there is of duel socket a's
512 megs of ram
video card will be a cheap one
beater cd rom
ibm 60 gig
and not sure what else
 
but hopefully amd or whoever is makin the duel mobo for socket a get's it done soon
 
but i do want to make a server though but though but if they don't make the dual socket moco soom i will go with duel celery 800
and a abit mobo

I wasn't aware Durons supported SMP, and afaik, Celerons don't either now so you might have a lil problem there.

The Duron's are eventually supposed to be SMP capable, but not right now. And Cynan's right, the current Celeron's aren't SMP enabled. As I recall, SMP Celeron's only go up to 466MHz without overclocking.
If you want a dual board now, it's either got to be the Celeron I or Pentium III, and I personally don't see a duallie AMD system being viable at this point in time.
I got me an MSI 694D Pro-AR version 1.0 and it's a good board.
Tyan also makes some good boards, but they are not for overclocking at all. You can overclock 'em, but they suck for doing so, just keep that in mind, but they are good boards.
Personally, any component that costs more than a cheap store-bought pc is way outta my price range.
As far as I know, AMD does not make consumer motherboards, and any that they do make would just be a reference design. The duallie AMD reference design is the Tyan Thunder K7, but it's the only one out and costs around $600--depending on where you get it and which features come with it.
MSI supposed to come out with one real soon, but there's some incompatibility with the AMD 762 northbridge and the Via 686B southbridge which they were planning to use. Abit and Asus should have there duallie boards out by the end of the year...
I'm hoping for duallie Durons, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
 
irrelevant side note: looks like I got the second most number of posts here on the board, with Eddie being 100+ posts ahead o me.
We now return you to your regularly schedualed musings.

yea i hope they come out with the dual for a cheap price3 cause thats all i relly like processor wise

All AMD 6x86 chips are SMP compatible. Though, not necessarily supported
 
 
even the K6-2s were SMP capable, they just didn't have a chipset/board to use it.
 
When the Tyan came out, they ran dual Durons on it with no problem
They ran dual Athlons on it with no problem
They ran dual Athlon MPs on it with-you guessed it. No problem
 
 
 
 
And how's this for my rig this fall(or winter if I hold out)?
 
Black (anodized aluminum) Coldforge AA-15 w/ extra hdd rack(giving me 19 bays total)
 
 
DUAL Palomino(Athlon MP) 1.4 or 1.5 ghz(depending on what's released)
DUAL Swiftech MC462a heatsinks
DUAL Delta EHE 80mm 80cfm 53dB fans (on a rheostat or 7/12 switch)
DUAL Enermax 465 Power supplies(modded for continuous Panaflo 80H & 92H operation)
DUAL Adaptec SCSI controllers(2940U2W, and 39160{which gives me DUAL channels}) giving me a total of 45 devices)
DUAL IBM Ultrastar LZX 18gb 10k Ultra 160
DUAL port Compaq NC3122 10/100 Ethernet card
DUAL Plextor 12x10x32s(or 24x if they come out with it in time)
DUAL(or Four, depending on motherboard) Corsair/Crucial PC2400(or PC2600 if released) 256 mb DIMMS.
DUAL Panaflo 120mm H series for exhaust
DUAL Panaflo 120mm M series for hdd cooling(intake)
DUAL Panaflo 120mm M series for system cooling(intake)
 
and for the stuff that isn't dual
-undetermined- 760mp(x) motherboard(MSI, maybe?)
Hercules Game Theater XP
IBM 4.5gb 7.2k U2W
-undetermined- GeForce 3 or better
Removeable(hotswap) 20GB IBM 60GXP or 9GB IBM U2W
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer w/ Ratpad
 
things that will not grace my computer:
floppy
modem
AOL
legacy devices(no parallel-unless for LCD-, no ISA, no serial)
 
 
 
all this in addition to my current rig(check sig), which will remain unchanged unless I decide to grab an Athlon