Off Topic, AMD 1.4 ghz

Atrocities · #1 June 27th, 2001, 10:28 AM

Fan is installed correctly, and all on board software is, or rather, was working. I checked the stats before starting Tribes, and everything was within norms. I played Tribes for about a half hour before ending the game. I went to click on the Big Blue E thingy, and the mouse froze. Nothing worked. I rebooted, and nothing happened. I checked the temp of the CPU, by moving my hand near the fan, it was working, and the cooling fins were luke warm. Go figure.

Yes I reoved the TAPE before I put the fan on. Duh.

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Atraikius · #2 June 27th, 2001, 12:34 PM

I've got an athalon (older one though) and other than taking some work to resolve a problem with my video card (issue with motherboard chipset and G400 video card) it has been the easiest to assemble and most trouble free computer I have ever had. I havn't had the computer lock up or have any of those page fault errors in over a year, when I would get them on a daily basis with my old intel chip.

Seawolf · #3 June 27th, 2001, 06:28 PM

IMHO,

When they rush chips out to be the fastest there will always be bad chips out there. I am waiting for IBM's copper based chip which should prevnet these types of issues as well as being wickedly fast.

Still using my P-133 for over 6 years.

Instar · #4 June 28th, 2001, 12:54 AM

Despite all the stuff they say, I never liked Athlon. Intel seems the way to go for most things. (Heck the Army is using them in their Land Warrior program)
Intel I think already has the copper chips already out. (I think its called the Coppermine chip, but Im not sure.)
What I want to do with a system is overclock the processor and install a super cooling system, like a water cooled one maybe.

Phoenix-D · #5 June 28th, 2001, 03:27 AM

All my Athalon systems have worked fine so far..

Phoenix-D

dmm · #6 July 3rd, 2001, 08:21 PM

We just got a 1.2 GHz Athlon here at work. It has been running almost continually for a month, and no problems. Maybe it's your motherboard, not the CPUs.

dmm · #7 July 3rd, 2001, 08:33 PM

AMD is off the hook! Here is a quote from another thread by Atrocities:

Well, off topic news is that my new system is now working, and I am using it to post this message. The FIC AD11 motherboard I had ran very very hot, and burned up its heat sink. I later discovered that this is a common promblem with FIC Boards. I now have a MSI KT266 Raid MB, however, it is only configured to run 200 FSB right now as I have not been able to find the jumper to allow the DDR 266 memory to run at full speed. (133 x 2)