First post, by stuvize
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Ever since my D875pbz failed I have been wanting to replace it but wanted to have a little bit more power and since there isn't a big selection of high end 875 motherboards especially at a good price, decided to go with a 865 motherboard instead and settled on a AS8 for $27. Put the board in the modified Micron case my D875pbz used to be in along with most the old parts except the hard drive, PSU and RAM. The Corsair VX550W was running low voltage like 11.89 under load on the 12V rail with P4 640 and the 540 at 4Ghz had to replace with a Cooler master RS700PCAAE3 that I had lying around also had to go from 4x512mb to 2x1gb sticks of ram to run 1T command rate and running 4 sticks of ram caused artifacts at 230Mhz bus and above in the CPU test in 3DMark03. The GFX card is a 512mb 7950GT made by Axle sound card is Audigy 2ZS platinum pro memory is 2x1gb PDC2G3200LLK CPU is a Pentium 4 640 at 4Ghz 16x250mhz. This has been a really fun build mainly put it together just to have something to run GTA SA good again but it surprises me how fast it is even running Fallout 3 which pushed the 3.2Ghz northwood to its limits in my old D875pbz. Ran some benchmarks with several CPUs at different speeds a 3.4Ghz Gallatin, 3.2Ghz 540 and 640 Pentium 4. All benchmarks ran at 1024x768 Doom 3 at ultra and GFX card at 625/648Mhz the super PI is the modded version from the super PI thread, couldn't get the scores to post properly so I just uploaded a text file