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Entonite

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    Entonite reacted to BobVonBob in Confirmation   
    It's definitely not that. Maybe you bumped some SATA or power cables when you were installing the card. Try pulling them out and reinserting them.
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    Entonite got a reaction from kelvinhall05 in PC not updating/ locking up during   
    Uses real office, Adobe reader and WoW. Bill pay. 
     
    And almost on cue 

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    Entonite reacted to mariushm in Best Hardware Of 2002   
    Around that time, there was Socket A (462) and the best for that socket was Barton series of processors (AMD XP 3000+ , 3100+ , 3200+ ). Before Barton, there was slightly less good Thoroughbred.
     
    AMD XP 3200+ Barton was launched in 13th of May 2003 : http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon XP 3200%2B - AXDA3200DKV4E.html
    It's still around 30$ on eBay.
    The Athlon XP 3000+ is cheaper, if you're lucky you can get it below 10$, 15-20$ is common.
     
    You would pair this with a Socket A motherboard and the best of these had nVidia nForce 2 chipset and 2 GB of DDR (or was it ddr2 already, not sure)... well, a lot of motherboards had 3 memory slots allowing for up to 3 GB but if you want dual channel, you used only 2 slots, so 2 GB max.
    It will be difficult to find such boards and they'll probably be a bit expensive because of collectors and because around 2000-2002 there were a lot of problems with electrolytic capacitors (used on motherboards to regulate power to components) that failed even with the motherboard not being used.. so unless people repaired them by replacing said capacitors, a lot were just thrown away.
    Also you'd be stuck with AGP 8x video cards and so on.
     
    Around 2005 the best price for performance was Intel D805 (dual core, 2.66 ghz, 533 mhz socket 775) ... you'll find a lot more motherboards for such a cpu and you're definitely in the DDR2 times already, so 4 GB of memory and you have 2 cores...
    You're also in the pci-e times, so you'd get decent choices for video cards, all the way from AMD HD 2400 to 3450, to the very popular for the time HD 4850 and HD 4870 , and 10$ these days gets you cards like HD 6450 or GT 210 which support even the latest DX versions.
     
    The D805 is 4-5$ on eBay... worth it. 
     
    THe D805 was cheap because it was limited to 533 Mhz FSB ... a notch better (but more expensive at the time) was Intel D820, which run at 800 Mhz FSB and 2.8 Ghz (compared to 2.66 Ghz) and it's even cheaper on eBay ... costs as low as 1.85$
     
    For socket 775 you have loads of options in the motherboard department... I wouldn't even know where to start.
    Asrock typically has a nice site, so you can go back and look at what they made and easily see all their previous Socket 775 boards: https://www.asrock.com/mb/index.asp#AllProduct
    Asus is a bitch to look back, Gigabyte may be somewhere in the middle.
    I don't know about MSI and others.
     
    Probably boards with the P45 chipset would be best suited (not suited, more like highest end) for these processors but you have to be careful at supported list of processors if you go with D805 ... some motherboards don't support it due to the 533 Mhz FSB.  Intel D820 is much better supported, with its 800 Mhz FSB.
    For example, Asrock P45R2000-WiFi can't handle D805 but can do D820 just fine... and it's 100$ on eBay : https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASRock-P45R2000-WiFi-P45R2000-WiFi-2x-eSATA-SATA-RAID-SPDIF-DDR2-DDR3/372628067904
    It's expensive because it was high end back then, and supports DDR2 and DDR3, SLI , wifi on board, 2 gigabit network cards, 8 x sata 2 and so on..
     
    P43 chipset based boards would also work very well and would be cheaper, I think difference is just no RAID and I think less OC potential.
    Cheaper but still decent would probably be G41 chipset based boards. These would also give you integrated graphics (in chipset). 
    Not sure I'd go lower, because you're starting to lose features like SATA 2, DDR3 support etc etc..
     
    For graphics as I said, HD 4850 was great, but it's a 2008 card. Still, it should still work very well for games from 2002 onwards, and would work great with D820 or D805 from 2005 - i can attest to that because I actually owned a D805 and a HD 4850
    They're also reasonably priced, for example here's one for 25$ : https://www.ebay.com/itm/HIS-HD-4850-IceQ-4-1GB-256bit-GDDR3-H485QS1G/153533276273
    The "reference" design with 512 MB and tiny cooler are even cheaper, some at less than 10$ but those can require cleaning often (because of the heatsink design with lots of fins close together that catch loads of dust.
     
     
  4. Funny
    Entonite got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in R7 1800x and MSI X370 (with some Corsair h100i)   
    First off I'm in my phone so I apologise, but I just got my 1800x and MSI X370 Mobo installed to my case and naturally , something is wrong. 
     
    No post or bios! 
     
    Push the power button, CPU error led on the board comes on (RAM light too but for a known reason) re installing the CPU and powering on same lights. 
     
    The other issue is Corsair has some bad instructions for the H100i and with powering on my system no pump and no rad fans, I assume I need the Data cable plugged in to, but with my Corsair CX750 I'm not getting a cable where I need it anytime soon
     
    PS the known ram issue is I don't have any installed yet.
     
    PPS, I may have made a mistake when first installing the CPU by not lifting the Bar first and did that with the CPU in it's correct spot, no damage to the CPU seen. 
     
    Please help.
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    Entonite got a reaction from themctipers in SSD boot issues/power supply issues   
    this computer is So bi Polar right now. Its working, booted and let me sign in after Windows Updates. like wtf. still will be happy when the PSU shows up to see if that was an actual problem 
     
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