Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-22, 17:18

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... One big point for AM2 is the cooler retention mechanism, I didn't try an AM4 cooler, but you can use the same cooler for 754-939-AM2/+ and AM3/+, the only thing to taque care is the mounting presure. ... Sorry, but I wouldn't say it works to any way. I couldn't setup an ordinary S754 cooler …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-22, 15:46

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From my point of view, the strong points of AM2 against 775 are the memory controler that was ahead of it's time in concepts, like it hapened with the Athlon ev6 bus, and the wide CPU compatibility, AM3 CPUS can run on AM2 boards, whille in 775 boards are more limited. For example, the Core 2 CPUs …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-22, 12:28

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I have a Msi 785GT-E63 with a Phenom II 960T and 8gb DDR2 800 and a Radeon HD5870. From my experience with RAM, it is better to have a lot of not so fast ram than not having enought RAM and have to use a big swapfile. Maybe is an old abit of the 90's. Is true, that this is a late motherboard for AM2 …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-19, 18:34

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I always priorize AMD over Intel, so I always chose AM2 over 775. I always had the felling that AMD was more honest on the cost, performance ratio. But is very likelly that I'm mistaken. I don't think I'm a fanboy or someting like that, I also have 775 based computers.

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-14, 20:17

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I used for a long time a Phenom II 1100T with a 990fx and 16gb ram, the last graphics card I used in it was an RX580 and the lack of instructions left me with no other option than to change the equipment. As always, it depends on what the computer is used for. The last "modern" game I tried on that …

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-14, 15:52

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The processors that this motherboard supports do not have instructions that today are almost essential, so its total usefulness reaches 2016 at the latest. I see two options, Windows 7 32 bits or 64, although with a mechanical hard drive the difference is noticeable and the 64-bit version suffers in …

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Re: AwdFlash part number mismatch error

Posted on 2023-01-14, 11:26

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From my experience making hotflash, the awdflash version is the most problematic since it has to work with your motherboard and recognize the eeprom chip you are using. I have always achieved it after trying a lot of versions of awdflash until I found the right combination. You can use the version …

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Re: Manufacturing amount of large 17,3" laptop models ?

Posted on 2023-01-05, 19:30

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Well, I see quite a few 17-inch laptops for sale that are not gaming, at least I wouldn't say that an I3 without a dedicated graphics card can be considered gaming. With a simple Google search, in the first result this appears: https://support.hp.com/es-es/document/c08080993 I would not say that its …

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Re: Manufacturing amount of large 17,3" laptop models ?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 19:20

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I use a 17.3" laptop daily and my wife does the same, my goal is a screen of an adequate size and low energy consumption. The usual use is browsing the internet and some light games. In some things size really matters. 😀 But it is also true that my laptop weighs only 2.2kg.

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Re: Chinese Rage XL PCI mods, improved compatibility and looking for a good overclock.

Posted on 2023-01-03, 11:19

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My idea was to come up with a simple method to make these cards more compatible; so any method seems interesting to me, and the more affordable the better. My interest was also in overclocking, for that reason I used the 1117 with its capacitors and the xl4005 to regulate the voltage. I'm curious …

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Re: Proper use of low ESR and "slightly low ESR"

Posted on 2022-12-28, 11:02

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Could you show me its waveform on an oscilloscope? You wouldn't know how much I would like to do that, but, I can't afford an oscilloscope so the only reference I have is the stability and temperature of the components. I have used this method several times without problems and the only strange …

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Re: Proper use of low ESR and "slightly low ESR"

Posted on 2022-12-27, 22:20

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I do the polymods using capacitors rescued from defective or useless motherboards, I'm not an expert in anything so I can't give many explanations, I just followed the explanations of a member of this forum and a few hours on YouTube to reach the conclusion that this way of doing it could work. …

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Re: VRM 5v 3.3v

Posted on 2022-12-25, 18:58

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I have used a DC-DC step-down based on an XL 4005 that costs about €3. If the motherboard has the option to use the 3.3v you only need to know where to solder the wires. Why do something new when it already exists and is so cheap and they are also efficient and offer the possibility of controlling …

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Re: A program to refresh a hard drive, to stop data loss?

Posted on 2022-12-22, 19:32

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clueless1 wrote on 2022-12-22, 18:05: Hoping wrote on 2022-12-18, 16:10: What motherboard did you use? I could not find a good board. Finally remembered to check. Intel DG31GL Great, it's a shame those aren't common around here. But I will be very. Watch out if I come across any Intel motherboard.

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Re: Dead Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+ with shorted +5vsb

Posted on 2022-12-21, 22:01

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Gigabyte used "customized" versions of the I/O chips. Here https://jucetize.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/2/0/37200949/chip_compatibility.txt you have a compatibility list, I know that your chip is not there but you can se that Gigabyte used "customized" chips, the last I've remplaced was from an AMD 970 …

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Re: CPU/GPU Undervolting experiences, is it safe for the rest of the components?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 21:47

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Admittedly, my usable overclocking experience comes from modern tech ( 2011 and onward ) because I didn't bother overclocking my stuff when I was younger. I didn't know much about it, never could afford better cooling solutions, and was rather scared of frying my stuff. Most current tech has …

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Re: CPU/GPU Undervolting experiences, is it safe for the rest of the components?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 21:44

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I am confused - Why do you want to undervolt then? - How do you define a problem with power consumption? Lets say, I would not be surprised if in total all the worlds k7 Athlons wasted more power (in kWh or Joules) doing nothing, then all Core-Duos used for doing something. This curiosity began …

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Re: CPU/GPU Undervolting experiences, is it safe for the rest of the components?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 19:46

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I expected at least to be able to testing 1.3v and 1.1v would be great. I figure it is unlikely that motherboard designers add such undervolting functionality. Because it can easily result in a non-working or unstable system, resulting in time/money-wasting troubleshooting support calls. Maybe you …

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Re: CPU/GPU Undervolting experiences, is it safe for the rest of the components?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 11:46

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Ok, I'm disappointed, I got two broken 462 motherboards for this experiment, an A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 and an A7N8X-X 2.0, I understood that they are the best with nForce 2 chipset, so far I only repaired the A7N8X-X and it works perfectly, stable at 11x200 and 1.7v in the mosfets according to my …

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Re: A program to refresh a hard drive, to stop data loss?

Posted on 2022-12-19, 15:36

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Is it true that over time, the data on a mechanical hard drive can breakdown and become corrupted, due to the magnetic 'bits' of data losing their charges? If so, then I'd imagine that there are utilities that can refresh the data, probably by going through the hard drive and reading each part of …

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