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Durvelle27

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Of course it does, it's Asus! ;)
Why ASUS has always been my favorite and first choice for boards up until AM4. They had a really bad start.

But nonetheless trying to see how far I can clock this thing and how the 9400GTs do :roll:512MB FTW
 
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I would have to say that Asus was (and is) absolutely #1 in the terms of quality & performance, I love their boards! TBH, I don't have any experience with their newer models, but everything up to the P5 series was just perfect!

In fact, I love Asus so much to the point where I just bought their smartphone two days ago! :)
 
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ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, Athlon 64 FX X2, and a Nvidia 9400GT
I recommend buying four 2GB DDR ECC memory sticks to have that 8GB standard :)
 

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I used 4x2GB Samsung's ZCCC chips (got them locally a year ago).
There are few in Germany : LINK (only 6GB tho :/)
^Those are not how mine look like (my have two chip rows).
Like those : LINK.
My memory : http://imgur.com/a/oEwQN
 
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Speaking of the PCIe video cards... I probably shouldn't jump ahead of myself at this stage, but I'm seriously considering to upgrade my existing 8800GT for something better. I'm thinking GTX 660Ti - from what I heard it's a perfect replacement for my trusted GF8!

And besides... To be quite honest, I'm tired of being the laughing stock to everyone, whenever I mention (still) using 8800GT for regular & daily purposes. Heck even gaming ... I'm running all my Steam games set to "max" without any lag whatsoever. But then again, I don't really play that much games in the first place, especially the newer ones :p So therefore, investing time & money into a video card seems pointless to me, when I could easily invest it into the new phone for example, or new (retro) hardware piece. So instead, I came up with the idea to try & see if I can trade my old HTC M8 phone (that's still under warranty) for something decent, which would bring a lot more power to my old Q6600 rig. And that something would most likely happen to be 660Ti :)
 
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isnt 660Ti quite a bit overkill for that rig? :)
 
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Well, I suppose so. But I'm trying to think in advance...

One of these days I'm going to swap the CPU & mobo for something better, so at least I won't have to worry about the graphics :) I was actually referring to the power consumption, as 660 Ti draws pretty much the same amount of juice as 8800 (according to Game-Debate) where upgrading to let's say 770 GTX (or higher) would require a whole new PSU :p
 
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Had a cheap machine I picked up sitting about and noticed it had four out of six stand offs, there were six in the case but two were in the matx position.

Pulled the board and check the back, around the stand offs in the wrong position they hadn't done any damage but I noticed a trace that had burnt through!

Board oddly worked fine!

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Repaired it and put it back in with mounts in right place.

Lives on :)
 

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Ah, Hercules! I had a Hercules 9500 Pro years ago on my #2 PC, at least it ran Flatout 2 flawlessly. :toast:

Loved that blue PCB. :)
 
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It's blue! It's Hercules! It's Disn ... wait, never mind :) On a side note, I do happen to have a demo version of this game on one of those small CD-ROMs, I'll see if I can dig it up
 

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It's blue! It's Hercules! It's Disn ... wait, never mind :) On a side note, I do happen to have a demo version of this game on one of those small CD-ROMs, I'll see if I can dig it up
Damn, that's one of my favourite childhood games! :D
 
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Right, here it is! And please excuse me for the quality, I took this shot with my 4.5yr old Samsung since I'm having minor technical issues with my new Asus phone, but I should be back on track soon enough :)


Oh and @Bungz... Looking at the board, it might had been the grounding line. Which would explain why the board still worked, despite the PCB damage. Lesson to be learned (for all of us), always double-check the standoffs before placing the board into the chassis, especially if it's pre-owned case.
 
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Yeah presumed it was a ground as it was quite chunky.

Its somthing I always check, never know how who as put the system together!

Recently I bought a lot of 5 very high end gaming machines to break, nice corsair cases.

Oddly Corsair leave a stand off out the factory in a place which would not be there on 90% of boards, and yep every system had the stand off there!
 
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Yeah, I've noticed that some cases (and their manufacturers) use pre-installed, permanent standoffs which are not removable from the frame. Usually the common ones, for all ATX standards such as top-left corner, right next to the keyboard & mouse interface. Makes installing the motherboards a lot more easier, especially if you don't happen to have identical, matching set of standoffs (since most of them seem to be different in shape & size, especially screw threads)
 

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Free to a good home, you ship it, you buy it :)
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that's a Pent 200MMX, Manuf 4/01/98. win98 would come with the cert and key :)
 
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Another thing I can take off from my TO DO LIST! :D

Full story later...

Let me guess ... Slot-1 heatsink clips? Oh man, I hate these things, I've had so many of them which fell apart when I tried to pull them out :(

And @Ahhzz, you have a message :)
 
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Sound Cards for old 98/DOS games :


My DX9+ PCI (non-E) GPU collection :)


@Robert B Which one whould you pick for your Slot 1 ?
 
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