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[man1c]

After my old system died a few weeks ago due to the heatsink shearing the clips off the mobo, so I built myself:-

ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe
AMD 3700
ASUS 6600GT x2
2GB Kingston Memory
Windows XP Pro 64 Bit.

This is the first Asus mobo I have owned and TBH i'm very impressed and will be buying Asus again.

[Nvyseal]

Nice setup, im running 2 64 bit systems now, both with Gigabyte mobo's one with SLi. OS's: Datacenter 64, Server 2003-64 and XP pro 64 and XP pro 32 Quad booting

[OutlandishTrendz]

Nice rig and welcome. I have never had a problem with an Asus board. I will return to them only until I have a reason not to.

[Tambotsoo]

i'm using
-Epox 9npa+sli
-athlon 64 3500+ (stock cool)
-2 pcs palit 6600 gt (sli)
-1 gb giel ddr 500
-hec winpower 550 watts
-liteon dvd writer
-2 pcs seagate 120 gb strip raid

[Neon]

Just for people who don't know this, Asrock are made by Asus but they are they're budget range

[Visentinel]

lol samsung do that to, they have a a budget CRT monitor range called Samtron.

Thermaltake also have a budget range but iv forgotten its name.

[A4U]

I am scared of the expense, maybe sometime in the future

So is 64-bit really that good?

[Neon]

Yeah mate though i don't own one, aren't they cool guys?

[ss1]

Hi All
I got..

AMD64 3200+ 939 Venice Core
Gigabyte K8NF-9 Motherboard
1GB (2 x 512) Dual Channel PC3200 RAM (generic)
MSI 6600GT Graphics Card
Compro DVB-T300 HDTV card
200GB Western Digital HDD
Pioneer 109 DVD Burner
LG DVD-ROM

hmm...I thinks that's it. Hope I havent left anything out

Edited by ss1, 22 October 2005 - 11:54 AM.

[Visentinel]

KW13, on Aug 22 2005, 09:29 AM, said:

Yeah mate though i don't own one, aren't they cool guys?

Even if your not going to use the 64bit of an Athlon64, the chips still perform amazingly in 32bit, and are faster than Pentium4's

Short Answer, YES

[Neon]

I HAVE ONE...WHOO WHOO

AMD64 Venice 3200+
1GB Ram
Two 80GB Hard Drives
DVD Writer

[m.oreilly]

KW13, on Oct 23 2005, 06:28 AM, said:

I HAVE ONE...WHOO WHOO

AMD64 Venice 3200+
1GB Ram
Two 80GB Hard Drives
DVD Writer

what mobo did you/will you go with? glad to see you went with 939.
two drives...time for raid0

[stevenaxe]

i was wondering (with disregarding what is better for upgrading) would it be better to have 512 mb of ram on one stick, or on two? just in general with any amount of ram, is there better performance with the same amount of ram on two sticks rather than one (1gb on one stick, or two 512 mb)

[Neon]

Well one stick is better i would say but thats my opinion and i am not sure if thats fact

m.oreilly my motherboard is an Asrock Socket 939 Dual Sata2

[m.oreilly]

stevenaxe, on Oct 23 2005, 12:18 PM, said:

i was wondering (with disregarding what is better for upgrading) would it be better to have 512 mb of ram on one stick, or on two? just in general with any amount of ram, is there better performance with the same amount of ram on two sticks rather than one (1gb on one stick, or two 512 mb)

it would depend on the latencies you were after. the present athlons
love low latency, so if you can find a large enough stick with tight timings
(2225 @ 1T) go for it. but with the larger amounts of ram, you run into
having to run with more cycle time (2T) for stability. depends on what you
want to do i guess.

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my motherboard is an Asrock Socket 939 Dual Sata2

great. i don't have any experience with the ULI chipsets, hope you
have fun with it