[ale] Who's Your Mother...

[Van L. Loggins]

I just recently built myself a new computer at home. I used an Epox 
8RDA+ Nforce2 based MB in it.

this is my first Motherboard from Epox but I am very impressed with it, 
with the AMD Athlon XP 2400 t'bred Revision B core cpu I have paired 
with this MB along with the Volcano 9 Heatsink and fan I am getting very 
cool cpu temps, even when I overclock the chip by dropping the 
multiplier and raising the frontside bus to 166 MHz from the stock 133 
MHz. cpu temps on this unit just barely break 30 Celsius unless I 
overclock it.

my System at work is running an Abit KR7A-133 with an AMD Athlon XP 1800 
Palomino core that has always ran fairly hot. I have it paired with a 
volcano 6cu+ and have never been able to get this system's cpu to stay 
cooler than the mid 40's (celsius)

No major problems out of either systems, however I have had problems 
recently with a MSI motherboard that I bought less than a year ago that 
has popped 4 capacitors. and believe me MSI has been giving me the run 
around about replacing it. If I had been overclocking the system (which 
I wasn't) then I wouldn't have even attempted to get the motherboard 
replaced. but if I buy something that has a 1 year warranty and it craps 
and dies on me less than 8 months from when I bought it I expect the 
company to replace it.

Maximum PC magazine has a small article in this months issue about the 
bursting capacitor problem, it seems a inferior lot of capacitors got 
dispersed throught the electronics manufacturers of the world and we 
will be seeing the effects for a long time to come.

any thoughts on this one guys?

>Message: 10
>Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:44:07 +0900
>From: Keith Hopkins <hne at hopnet.net>
>Organization: Hopkins Network Engineering
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] Who's Your Mother...
>Reply-To: ale at ale.org
>
>In order of preference:
>
>For servers:
>   Tyan, SuperMicro, Asus, Gigabyte
>
>For desktops:
>   Asus, Gigabyte, ABit, MSI, IWill
>
>For small-footprint application specific designs using a generic mobo....
>   Via Epia, Shuttle
>
>  
>


-- 
Van Loggins        vloggins at turbocorp.com

1-770-532-2239 Extension 9404

Assistant System Administrator

Turbo Logistics

http://www.turbocorp.com

I must not fear. 
Fear is the mind-killer.
I will face my fear, 
and I will let it pass through me.
When the fear is gone, 
there will be nothing.

No Fear!




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