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trekrider · Rated XXX

Well, for the past few days, I've been building this AMD system.

AMD 2500+ Barton, ASUS A7N8X-E Dlx, 2x 512meg Corsair XMS PC3200 CL2, ATI 9600XT, WD 80gig 8meg Cashe (Boot on a PCI controller), 2x WD 80gig 8meg Cashe SATA (Raid 0), Memorex True 8x DVD +/-, Lite On CD-RW/DVD Rom, Antec True Power 550w PSU.

This is the setup I plan on useing the Koolance EXOS AL watercooling kit on. For compairison....it's setup with a Valcano 7 all copper HSF. I'll also get temps from a Thermalright SKU 800a HSF.

1st issue I've had to deal with was.....DATA corruption on the RAID drives. The system would only boot every 4th or 5th time. BIOS & MBM5 both reported temps at 38'c.....so I know it was not a heating issue.
Turns out my OC'ing from 1.83GHz(stock) to 2.2GHz was the culpret. Once I droped it down to 2.1HGz.....all was fine (at least, so far!).

Next issue....I could NOT sign into this wonderful site. the front page (home) would only show the top 1/4 of the page, nothing else would load. On OCCASION I could get into the forums page (I posted a couple times) but, no avatars would show.
Turns out Zone Alarm Pro 5 was the culpret here. After resetting the default settings a few times, reconfiguring this setting or that setting, finally here I am!

DAMN.....is all this worth it???? Bang Head

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