I figured I might as well post my system's specs - might make some of you lot feel a bit better about your own PCs.

Fortrex "Magic" MG-780 ATX Full Tower [a.k.a. that rather big full tower that Maplin sell under the wrong name :)] [They call it a "Jupiter Full Tower"]
Macron MPT-300 PSU
K6-2/500
TMC TI5VGA mobo [w/ 2MB cache]
320MB RAM
IBM 75GXP 30GB
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo
Sonic Vortex 2
Lite-On LTR 12101B [12x 10x 32x]
BTC BCD24XHM 24x CD ROM
3.5" & 5.25" floppy drives [1 of each]
Antec EzUSB
Realtek RTL8029 based NIC
MRi PCI1456 56K modem [just in case cable server dies :)]
Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem
Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor

my crappy PC is as follows:

Asus K7V VIA KX133 chipset BIOS 1008-D Beta
AMD Athlon 750 SLOT A
512 MB PC133 RAM
Panasonic S70 Monitor
Hercules 3D Prophet II MX
LG 52X CD-ROM
Mitsumi 4x/4x/24x Burner
Maxtor 20 GB 7200 RPM ATA100 Hard Disk
a couple of floppy drives
Altec Lansing ACS54 Speaker set
SB Live Player 1024
Lucent 56k Modem
Linksys USB 10/100 Adapter
Belkin PCI 10/100 Adapter
Logitech Wingman USB Gamepad
A crappy 5 dollar PS/2 mouse
and an ancient 101 AT Keyboard

Well, the Epox is in. Had to up the memory voltage before WinXP would stop giving me a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSOD. I also found out the HTP372 controller doesn't like my rounded cables...

Well i got a 1.8a p4, very nice, 2.4gig an climbing, quite impressive.

Yeah, the Northwood is a nice overclocker. I know some dude that's trying to hit 2.6 with his 1.6A, and he might do it too with his H2O setup.

Also, managed to grab some new drivers for my 8500, just given me 500 more 3dmarks which was nice 10,000 is in reach, ill be well impressed if i can manage that.

I found out something: shims suck! I had one on my T-bird and it was preventing me from using anything but the default multiplier. That sucked!

yea shims allways seemed kinda sketchy to me

Maybe you should try a non conductive 1

Taken me a while to get a pc im happy with!.....

Windows XP Professional
AMD Athlon 1333mhz on 266 FSB
MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition Motherboard
768 Kingston PC133mhz Ram
40 Gig Western Digital 7200 rpm ATA 100 Hard Drive
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum Soundcard
Sony 12x CDRW\DDRW Writer
Ricoh Combi DVD/CDRW Writer
MSI Gerforce 4 MX440T Graphics
Voodoo TV/FM Tv Tuner Card Nicam Stereo
HP Scanjet 6200c
HP Laserjet 5
Creative Webcam go
Samsung digimax 800k Camera
Cambridge soundworks DTT 2200 5.1 Speaker system
Sony Graphic equalizer
Cordless Headphones
Cordless Black & Silver Trust rechargable mouse
BTC Black and silver keyboard
Optiquest V115 22" (20" Viewable) Monitor Customized in Silver with Black buttons
Logitech cordless Gamepad
Sony Minidisc player hooked up to optical leads on live drive
4 port usb hub
ir receiver so i can control pc with a remote control
Silver server tower case with black buttons
hayes v92 modem pci
on board usb network
Im chuffed!!!!:D

Does a dual 2.2GHs Prestonia with 1G PC800 count? Only 6 18G Cheetah's RAID5w/128MB cache controller? With a GF4?

I don't have a huge heatsink anyway, so the shim is kinda pointless and I haven't killed a core yet.

Well i am working on my lan box heh

Dfi ak-75ec mobo
voodoo 3 2000 16 meg pci
maxtor 8 gig
stick of 256 pc133


and i was looking on pricewatch and i can get 1.3 duron for 64 WOW
that is a must so i might be investing in that and a new case

Criminy! My 8K3A+ died, and I'm sending back for a full refund from Newegg. On the upside, I got an Abit NV7-133R to replace it. This mutha is loaded, and could probably change my stance on Abit. So far (and it hasn't been long) it's given me no problems. On a side note, this is the first non-Via chipset motherboard I've used in one of my personal machines for at least 2 years (440BX last non-Via one for me).

Just built
1.6a @2240mhz

well i learned that my cpu can run 172 f and not die, cause i had to turn my fans off a minute and forgot to turn them back on and when i got back my comp was crashed and restarted and it wouldn't boot into windows so i reset itand i pauseed on the temp thing and my cpu was 172 so i remembered to turn my fans back

My updated specs:

Fortrex "Magic" MG-780 ATX Full Tower [a.k.a. that rather big full tower that Maplin sell under the wrong name ] [They call it a "Jupiter Full Tower"]
Macron MPT-300 PSU
Athlon XP 1900+ [1.6Ghz]
Abit KT7A-RAID v1.3
384MB RAM [3x128MB PC133]
IBM 75GXP 30GB
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo
Sonic Vortex 2
Lite-On LTR 12101B [12x 10x 32x]
BTC BCD24XHM 24x CD ROM
3.5" & 5.25" floppy drives [1 of each]
Antec EzUSB
Realtek RTL8029 based NIC
MRi PCI1456 56K modem [just in case cable server dies ]
Kensiko translucent blue PS2 keyboard [the ones Staples sell]
Logitech USB Optical Wheelmouse
Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem
Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor

Here is mine.. Nothing special.

Hey LinuxBoy - what temp does your CPU stay @ when idle?

At idle - 28C
Full Hard @ss Load - 40C
I maxed the cpu out at 100% for 5 hours, and the temp
never went over 40C

Of course that depends on if my AC is running or not. :-)
I've seen it idle at 26C
and be at full load running at 35C
Just depends on ambient room temp for me.
Mine is not overclocked. Standard CPU

ONly an Athlon would need a Delta fan.


No thanks,I hear enough helicopters in the morning, here.

The only reason I have one is because that's what came with my HS.
I've been looking at quiter ones, that produce the same amount of air flow. Any suggestions?

I had the swiftech heatsink with a delts fan, and I changed to a CAK 38 with a smaller fan, tho it was 5k rpm, was a bit quieter thok, and used a lot less room.

Well, it's time to repost one of my systems.

Scorpio
-Abit NV7-133R
-Athlon T-Bird 1.4GHz @ stock
-512MB PC2100 DDR
-Gainward GeForce 3 @ 250/571
-Maxtor 20GB ATA100 7200RPM
-Maxtor 40GB ATA100 5400RPM
-Toshiba 12x DVD
-Samsung 48x CD
-Mitsumi floppy drive
-2 port Lucent IEEE1394 PCI card
-Sparkle 350 W PSU
-Vantec CCK-6027D HSF
-Super Case full tower

I cannot believe how many PCI slots I'm not using. Currently, I only have a firewire card for this thing. I'm probably not going to do much, if any, overclocking, especially since the options on this board are quite anemic at best. I'm not going very far with a max Vcore of 1.8 volts--and yes, this is an Abit board. On the upside, the integrated stuff rocks! USB 2.0, HighPoint ATA133 RAID, 5.1 ch sound, integrated LAN. I'm liking the NForce, which IMO, is possibly the best integrated chipset yet.