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drummingpariah · 10-30-2003, 10:37 PM

almost everything i have was used, which is why it was so cheap. we did some testing at the shop, and it's all legit, it all works fine. i also get a decent discount, because i work in this computer place. people come in with junk computers, like compaqs or hp's. normally the mobo dies in them, because that company uses crap parts. they can't screw up the cpus though. amd/intel makes those. no matter what. anyway, people come in with dead boxes, and just want to get rid of them and have us build them a new one. sometimes we use what still worked from theirs, sometimes we don't, sometimes it's completely unsalvageable(lightning, power surge, water, etc). that's where i got the hard drives, humungous case, cd-r, psu, and cpu. everything else i bought new or very-near-new. i just kept my eyes open, had money saved up, and made offers when they presented themselves. things work out pretty well that way, you know. i just bought the mobo last night, btw.

i have a couple qualms though. perhaps someone here can help. when i get the fsb up to 149, everything's all fine and dandy, but as soon as i try to bring it up to 150, the ram's bus speed drops down. WAY down. then i get this warning telling me not to bring it below 333 and such, and i was under the impression that i was going UP, not down. it has a configuration that allows me to manually control the ram bus, and offers 3 options before i get to fsb150. the 133, 166, 200 bus speeds, becoming 266, 333, and 400 respectively. they go up as the fsb goes up, until i get to fsb150. at that point i get dropped down to 320 or something close to that(i'm not sure at the moment). i can remedy this by bringing my fsb up to 166, but that causes serious stability issues. when i get back up to 166, it offers me all my options again. even if i bring down the multiplier, it's very very instable. any suggestions are appreciated. thanx!

10-30-2003, 10:37 PM	#3
drummingpariah Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 45	almost everything i have was used, which is why it was so cheap. we did some testing at the shop, and it's all legit, it all works fine. i also get a decent discount, because i work in this computer place. people come in with junk computers, like compaqs or hp's. normally the mobo dies in them, because that company uses crap parts. they can't screw up the cpus though. amd/intel makes those. no matter what. anyway, people come in with dead boxes, and just want to get rid of them and have us build them a new one. sometimes we use what still worked from theirs, sometimes we don't, sometimes it's completely unsalvageable(lightning, power surge, water, etc). that's where i got the hard drives, humungous case, cd-r, psu, and cpu. everything else i bought new or very-near-new. i just kept my eyes open, had money saved up, and made offers when they presented themselves. things work out pretty well that way, you know. i just bought the mobo last night, btw. i have a couple qualms though. perhaps someone here can help. when i get the fsb up to 149, everything's all fine and dandy, but as soon as i try to bring it up to 150, the ram's bus speed drops down. WAY down. then i get this warning telling me not to bring it below 333 and such, and i was under the impression that i was going UP, not down. it has a configuration that allows me to manually control the ram bus, and offers 3 options before i get to fsb150. the 133, 166, 200 bus speeds, becoming 266, 333, and 400 respectively. they go up as the fsb goes up, until i get to fsb150. at that point i get dropped down to 320 or something close to that(i'm not sure at the moment). i can remedy this by bringing my fsb up to 166, but that causes serious stability issues. when i get back up to 166, it offers me all my options again. even if i bring down the multiplier, it's very very instable. any suggestions are appreciated. thanx!