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To: eracer who wrote (188677)	3/5/2006 3:23:27 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Eracer: Your testing system must not work too well as a socket A Barton is in a Socket 754 MB. Epox 7Kxxx boards have socket A. I know because I gave my dad a socket A Epox KT133A-RAID MB with a 1200MHz Tbird two years ago (runs his file server with lots of SCSI and IDE disks) when I upgraded to a AXP 2400. I also gave him a ECS K7S5A with an AXP 2400+ (266FSB) with HSF last year. Systems given to relatives are a Tbird 1100 on another KT133A (no raid), Athlon 700 on a Biostar MB, two AMD K6/2-450s on Abit MBs, a K6/3-400 on Epox MB, a 486DX4/100 on ???, a 486DX-33 on ??? and a 386DX40 on a Microtech card (industrial grade with 100K hrs MTBF min). The last was in a case as heavy as a safe (est 150Kg) with an option for a UPS in the bottom with batteries (would add another 50Kg). Their home was broken into and the thieves didn't even attempt to steal it. I guess forkliftable is a good theft detterent. It did have 2 backplane buses, 16 5.25" FH bays and 2 500W hot swappable PSes (huge for the time). My A64 3500+ Rev E (CG) is working fine in my AsRock 939Dual-SATA2. The only large gripe I have is its (the MBs) touchiness with memory. My Corsair XMS3200 (2x512) doesn't like to run at 1T command rates even at "high" DDR volatge (2.7V). Had I known it was that touchy, I likely would have gone with PC3500LL or better. Now I slightly overclocked it to DDR440 (PC3500) along with the A64 at 2.43GHz at stock voltage. I may go higher later on, but at this clock, it passes all the torture, Prime95 and SuperPi tests. Pete