Time to assemble a new pc!

[jm1647]

was the old case an at or an atx

at uses an on off switch, atx just shorts the contacts momentaryily to turn on the switching power supply

at switch will not work

just make sure the plus on the led's is right

I just hook up the power led, not the sleep

ATX The PB is a momentary switch.

I guess leave off the green wire for the HDD yellow light, the Asus pinout only shows the + and -

Thanks !!!

[Chewy]

the hdd led should only be 2 wires

the power led might be 3 wires w/ sleep

you'll know soon enough if you get polarity wrong(they don't light)
or the hd led stays on when you turn on the computer

[doctorhardware]

I thought that this thread would be a good place for the attached picture. Remember that if you live in Florida this is what you might find if your a field service tech for computers.

[jm1647]

the hdd led should only be 2 wires

the power led might be 3 wires w/ sleep

you'll know soon enough if you get polarity wrong(they don't light)
or the hd led stays on when you turn on the computer

I got the PC for nothing, never ran it. Its a Gateway Essential 500 MHZ, the green led only had 2 leads and the clear/yellow one has 3. Thanks again

[jm1647]

I got the PC for nothing, never ran it. Its a Gateway Essential 500 MHZ, the green led only had 2 leads and the clear/yellow one has 3. Thanks again

I had the front plastic off the case because I drilled a hole for a fan in the sheetmetal and lo and behold on the front plastic is the lil symbols, the green LED with 2 leads is for HDD activity and the clear/yellow LED with 3 leads is for power.

[jm1647]

@Chewy it's up and running Pc Probe shows after about an hour CPU 33C and MB 32C, Voltages look good also.

Whats a good thing to run to break this bad boy in ? Thanks

[Chewy]

to test overclocking I would use shrink at a 70% compression, stable OC will
finish in great time, slightly unstable will take longer, 25% is safe and a piece of cake, when you figure out the memory dividers and HT downclocking


which cpu did you end up with?

[jm1647]

to test overclocking I would use shrink at a 70% compression, stable OC will
finish in great time, slightly unstable will take longer, 25% is safe and a piece of cake, when you figure out the memory dividers and HT downclocking

Never OC'd before memory dividers is a 30 pack that makes ya forget what ya did right. HT downclocking is happy times when ya forget what time it is and the clock is down.

Got any advice or good links?

[jm1647]

to test overclocking I would use shrink at a 70% compression, stable OC will
finish in great time, slightly unstable will take longer, 25% is safe and a piece of cake, when you figure out the memory dividers and HT downclocking


which cpu did you end up with?

The AMD 4000+ SanDiego

[Chewy]

The San Diego core runs at 12 x 200MHz, and runs the memory bus at 200MHz (DDR400 / PC3200); and normally runs the Hypertransport channels at 5x200MHz (1GHz).

won't overclock a lot, but the basic concept is take the fsb up to 250 then set your memory to run at 333 speed and set your HT down from a 5 multiplier to a 4 multiplier

since your cpu multiplier is locked to 12x then your cpu will be running at
3.0GHz, at 250fsb your memory would run at 416(might not be stable)
the HT at 4x 250 would end up the same

I would design a shrink benchmark(no da or aec) using seperate HD's then test at stock, then start inching the OC up to that 25% mark

what's the cpu voltage?

[jm1647]

PC probe shows the volts as 3.3V , 5.0V and 11.9V CPU still 32C and mobo 33C

[Chewy]

cpu core voltage will be a 1.4 or 1.5, the 1.4 models overclock better, the 1.5 models are already pushing it

[jm1647]

cpu core voltage will be a 1.4 or 1.5, the 1.4 models overclock better, the 1.5 models are already pushing it

Newbie here with this stuff, Where do I check the core voltage at ?

[jm1647]

I found it in the BIOS VCore Voltage 1.39V

[Chewy]

everest home was what I used to monitor my overclock

I could see what my memory was running at, also liked it for the sensor report

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