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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (87187)	8/16/2002 11:35:39 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) of 275872

I helped a friend set up his Athlon 2200+ this evening. It's on a Gigabyte board using via's KT333 chipset and has 768 meg of DDR266 RAM. He wanted the fastest, most solid computer possible, and added an extra fan to an Antec SX-840 case (which has a dual fan 400 watt PS and comes with two additional fans installed). Other parts include a 3Com network card, and a Matrox G550 dual head (he's running dual monitors). For a chip cooler he had a Coolermaster HHC-001 with a 7K RPM fan. After formatting the hard drive and installing windows, we did a shutdown/restart and checked the chip temperature in the bios. It was 35C (95F). At standard voltage. Makes the 42.5C that mine's been running at look positively hot. But then my CPU fan is running about 3400RPM, and is almost completely silent. I guess we both bought too soon to get the new stepping that everyone's talking about, but the existing chip is pretty amazing too (his chip was also the airga stepping). Thoroughbred is one nice chip. Elapsed time from where XP said 39 minutes remained in the installation, till the installation was complete, was just over 11 minutes. XP must have been estimating how long it would have taken a P4.... :-)

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