Recent content by barballs

Yep. That is exactly what I did :) So far everything seems to be running fine. Win 7 installed. Passed the Ratings check (something it always crashed on). Installing the rest of my software at the moment so I can give it a more rigorous test. I don't plan on overclocking it at all! That is for...

Hmmm upon opening the case to check that stuff out I noticed something odd. The 24pin power for the mainboard is actually a 20pin and a 4pin side by side. The 4pin was not in all the way. I unplugged both and put the 4 in first then snapped down the 20 and everything is seemingly fine. I am...

Yes the over clock switch is set to the default position. For this particular board it is 1(on) 2(off) 3(on) In the manual it mentions that it is for the FSB. Is that the only overclockable thing or should I be on the look out for a setting in the bios?

Hi All, This is my first post here. I somewhat recently got the opportunity to build my own PC. My old Dell Dimension 9200's graphics card kicked the bucket. In order to upgrade I needed to get a new power supply. Getting 5200 memory worked out more expensive than newer memory and a mainboard...