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[OutlandishTrendz]

Whats your 64 bit rig consist of? I dont have mine completely put together yet. I will put mine down when its complete.

[Visentinel]

PlatForm:

- Socket 939 Athlon 64 3200+ 2ghz @ 2.5ghz 250HTT 1.7Volts
- Oced Performance: Athlon64 FX53
- Super PI Checked and Double Checked - Zero Errors all the way to 60 Celcius
Idles 40 maxes to 50 with current Ambient of 24c it does 45c idle and 52 c
max when its 33 ambient

- Asus A8V Deluxe Via K8t800 Chipset Socket 939
8 usb2 / Normal IDE and RAID SATA (2 ports) and a single Raid IDE CHannel for up to 6 ata Devices / onboard gigabit lan / And a bunch of other usuals

- Kingston ValueRam PC2700 2x 512mb 166mhz (333 ddr) 2.5-3-3-7 4.1 gbyte/s
- Oced Performance: 178.6mhz (362ddr) 2-3-2-6 5.2 gbyte/s

- Gecube Radeon 9800pro 128mb 380mhz Core 340mhz (680 ddr) Mem
- Oced clocks only while in 3d mode 405mhz Core 365.4mhz (730.8 ddr) Mem

System Parts:

- 3 Hdds
-Maxtor 80gb / Seagates 160 and 200gb all 7200rpm all 8mb Cache
- SB Live! 5.1
- USB 2 PCI card adds 4 Ext 1 int usb 2 ports - total of 13 usb 2 ports :rolleyes:
- 500 Watt Semi Custom PSU my rough estimate places a 420 Watt loading on it when the cpu and Radeon are at full go
- 100mb PCI NIC
- An elaborate web of fans and auto / manual RPM controls
-Very Silent cooling, unless the fans start to get more Volts
- The same ATX case ive been using since my Athlon XP 1.6ghz days back when i bought it in year 2000 - It has seen my 80mm holesaw a few times, and my Sheet metal cutter once or twice but everything sits very snuggly and theres enough cooling to handle even hot sweltering days playing Doom3 and HL2 but why should i ? i have an A/C B)

Pictures
http://visentinel.co...gicam/mypc1.jpg
http://visentinel.co...gicam/mypc2.jpg

[OutlandishTrendz]

Im gettin the same mobo, had any problems with it at all?

[Visentinel]

yes, the radeon 9800pro would destabilise Even in 2d activity and cause the motherboard to reset itself (not windows really, the mobo would hit reset)

Not every ati card is effected

you might need to run ATI cards on almost any VIA chipset with agp 1.6 volts and if thats not enough then 4x agp aswell.

I'm an unlucky one that had to do both but made no difference to my frame rates, i cant notice any Diff between 8x and 4x to be honest.

Its a Fantastic Motherboard, speedfan works on it aswell, fan ports 1 and 2 can auto control rpm, it even handles a 120mm Delta Fan

[BeGiNnEr]

Hardware:
-AMD Athlon64 2800+ "NewCastle" (1.8GHz)
-Gigabyte K8NS Pro Socket 754 Motherboard
-Kingston 512MB ValueRAM PC-3200
-ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB 8x AGP
-Hitachi 7K250 160GB SATA Hard Drive (8MB Cache)
-Optorite 16x DVD+RW Drive
-BTC CD-Writer 16x10x40x
-BTC 16x DVD-ROM Drive
-ViewSonic G790 19" CRT Monitor
-Microsoft Internet Keyboard
-Microsoft Optical Mouse By S+ARCK

Software:
-Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
-Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
-SuSE Linux Professional 9.3

[OutlandishTrendz]

Got my rig last week... Specs in the sig...

[Oubipaws]

Just got mine

HP zv6005us Laptop
AMD 64Bit 3200+ (3500+ will be put in during the summer)
128mb ATi 200M (new card coming in the summer)
80gig 5400RPM Hard Drive
512mb PC3200 Ram (another 512 stick coming during the summer)
8x DVD -/+ RW
Windows XP Home SP2 (70gigs) / Auditor Linux (10 gig)

I love this laptop to death and it blows away the p4 3.2E I have.

[theman]

Mine doesn't exist yet.

[KelpFries]

Just built:

ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe (939)
AMD AthlonXP FX-55 2.6
ASUS Extreme 6800GT (Want to get a second one for the mobo)
2GB Kingston Memory
2x300GB SATA HD's (Raid 0)
Thermaltake Super Tower
Sony Dual Layer DVD-/+R - DVD-/+RW
Windows XP Pro 64 Bit.

Took me long enough to get the damn thing built!!

[OutlandishTrendz]

I thought you got a Gigabyte board?

[KelpFries]

I went through two boards and had problems with them both. An ASUS A8V and a Gigabyte. I got the A8N as a promotion and it actually works and works good. The first ASUS board was terrible, nothing worked. It kept locking up Windows on startup, the Gigabyte board had problems with the built in NIC's and the built in sound. I couldnt get either to work and couldnt get good help from Tech Support although I have a Gigabyte Sigma board running a P4 3.6 and it is and awesome mobo.

[OutlandishTrendz]

Ah nice. I got A8V, only problem I had was it didnt like my ATI 9550 at first, then I updated my BIOS to 1011 and didnt have a problem after I reinstalled it.

[KelpFries]

Everything is working great on the A8V so far, no complaints! It's funny though how I could have so many problems with my first ASUS 939 mobo, the A8N but no problems at all with the A8V, go figure... I did everything I could to get that A8N to work but no matter what I did, it just didnt want to cooperate. I upgraded the BIOS, got the very latest drivers for EVERYTHING, reinstalled several OS's, XP 64, 2003 64, multiple times, but damnit if every single time it didnt lockup on the welcome screen, even in safe mode.

Oh well, all is well now and I am happy with my A8V. I also just have to say (not on a 64 bit topic, just general mobo) that the Gigabyte Sigma board is absolutely the best mobo I have ever used. I have a P4 3.6 running on one and damn is that board awesome. I would recommend a Sigma board to anyone (they also come in 939 Athlon64 configs too).

[OutlandishTrendz]

Well I will have to take your word on the Gigabyte board as I'm kinda an Asus fanboy per say. I have yet to have any problems with any of the ones I have bought.

[Visentinel]

Kelp i used to hate Asus
Asus boards where crap, unstable and well crap.

I dono what motivated me to get an Asus for my socket 939, cept the fact its the only 939 i could find that had extra pATA and an AGP port and all the rest i wanted.

Its turned out to be a very Solid Platform to my suprisement also.