BTW, I just checked. I am using the on-board sound of this Gigabyte. So all of the HW is working with the possible exception of the SATA, which I cannot test. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am easily satisfied with the very best. --- Sir Winston Churchill
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Allen C Brown wrote: > [cut] > > As for Allen's last statement there... I resemble that > > statement. A few hundred extra Mhz never hurt anybody :-) > > > > That's all, > > Mr O. > > > > P.S. Motherboard chipsets are a whole other issue that can be > > expounded upon if requested. > > The reason Shannon recommended the overclocking sites was > to ensure the mother would run with margin when *not* > overclocked. Hence it would be very reliable. If you > overclock it you have used up that margin. Hence your > reliability will suffer. > > I need reliability more than raw speed. (One crash costs > more time than the incremental speed loss from a few MHz > even over the life of the computer. And an unreliable mobo > will crash more than once.) > > I don't even remember if all the HW on the mother was supported. > I may or may not be using the on-board sound. The ethernet > is working, but I can't get it to attach to eth1 rather than > eth0. I'm not using the SATA because I don't have a SATA disk. > USB is working. > -- > Allen Brown > work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly > answer the door in your nightie. --- Washington Post > > > --- Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>After getting burned with an unreliable mother (Abit KD7 > >>KT400) > >>I followed advice from Shannon Dealey and perused the > >>overclocking > >>web sites. From there I selected a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2. I > >>also selected RAM from that site. Works great. Of course I > >>don't overclock. I leave that to children. > >>-- > >>Allen Brown > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
