Xp2800+ retail?

Will the Xp2800+ come retail'd with a HSF soon?

if not, what is a quiet fan, that will do the job..

no overclocking will be done

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Im pretty sure ive seen one in Australia.
Regarding cooling the stock fan isnt too bad, but if you want uber cool something large that can accomodate a big and slow 80mm fan is good.
MCX-462, alpha PAL8045, SK800, Ax-7, Volcano 7+ or 9 etcetcetc.

<b><font color=purple>[Rik_]</font color=purple> I wonder how many people have made their own phasechange system?
<font color=blue>[LHGPooBaa]</font color=blue> I get phasechange whenever i eat a hot chillie </b>

Sounds like you're getting yourself an Asus A7N8X (nForce2). ;-)


<i>/Copenhagen - Clockspeed will make the difference... in the end</i>

From the above statement, it is quite clear to me who is the dumb [-peep-] here.


<i>/Copenhagen - Clockspeed will make the difference... in the end</i>

no because if you were "smart" you would know if you are so serious into overclocking A p4 rig is a better choice, even tho "I" like AMD, for their price performance/ratio... p4 is a better overclocker.

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Wow! That was a pretty vicious attack. I don't think any of Copenhagen's posts give off an air of superiority. I think the post titled "Asus A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2) NOT recommended !! " was a bit irresponsible as the A7N8X seems to be an awesome board albeit not a great overclocker.

It's good to see people reporting on their experiences especially with regard to overclocking and tinkering. Some good ideas are to be had from experimenting. Although I agree with you that the P4 is a much easier overclocker (I have one myself) at least Copenhagen is giving it his best shot with the Athlon.

Just my 2 cents.

To start press any key. Where's the "any" key? --Homer Simpson.

Yes, everybody knows that a P4 is most likely going to overclock well even with the stock cooler, although there's no guarantee. But maybe I was getting bored with all the reports on overclocking a P4, that I just had to try something else. This combined with the fact that THG's latest VGA charts update:

<A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/index.html" target="_new">http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/index.html</A>

actually showed a P4 3.06GHz HT / ASUS P4PE combo being beat up by a XP2700+ / ASUS A7N8X combo. Yes, read it again, even the mighty 3.06GHz P4 with HyperThreading is being beat up by a XP2700+ when used together with the most common DDR SDRAM P4 chipset at the moment, the 845PE.

Also I had a potent watercooling kit lying around, and I felt that the small Thoroughbred B core would probably benefit the most of watercooling. Well, with my XP2400+ now running at something close to XP3000+ specs, I'm sure it's able to beat a P4 3.06GHz HT in at least Aquanox, Dungeon Siege, UT2K3, Jedi Knight II, 3DMark2001 SE and probably a lot more benchmarks. I don't think I could have obtained significantly more performance had I chosen to go the P4 route. Luck also plays an important part in this; how well will a given CPU overclock; you never know.


<i>/Copenhagen - Clockspeed will make the difference... in the end</i>

ok well lets just drop it then, cause it's not getting anyone anywhere..

i just think if you wanna overclock big.. go with p4..

and i just didn't think it was cool of you to attack the nForce2 board and make it sound like a terrible board..

it's a great board.. but for you and your needs it obviously wasn't,
so i hope you find the board you are looking for.. goodluck

so.. im gonna end this convosation with that.



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