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Hammerhead Shark
Upgrade time
Should be getting my tax return this week, time to replace my dead Gigabyte-me 7VRXP. Will probably order from Newegg, as MWave is about $15 more.
New parts:
Epox 8RDA or 8RDA+
XP1700 TBred (OEM)
Antec True380W or True430W PS
WD SE HD 80-120GB, whichever one happens to be on sale
Existing parts:
GF4 Ti4200
SK7 w/80mm Sunon fan
2x 256MB Samsung PC2700
SB Live Platinum 5.1
ATX mid-tower case (120mm front fan, 2x 80mm exhaust)
Liteon 16x DVD-ROM
Teac 16/10/40 CDRW
XP Pro
DLink 10/100 PCI NIC
Floppy, Keyboard, Mouse
Couple questions:
1. Will the 380W be enough or should I spend the extra $10-15 for the 430W?? I run SETI almost 24/7.
Actually I still have an Enermax 430W PS but the 5V rail is too low 4.75-4.8, worried about stability or maybe frying another mobo. Dunno if that had any factor in killing my last 2 mobos, although I had both on for 3-4 weeks w/o any problems.
2. Should I get the 8RDA (non-plus) instead and use my existing sound card and NIC??
3. What's this I hear about having to install SP1 to use the newest NForce drivers??
4. Any idea how high Samsung RAM OCs??
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