Speaking of the XP 1800+

[Lupine]

i don't know if anyone else ran into this, but i got one of the AMD packages at the houston giveaway, and it runs hot (not at home right now, but it's something in the area of 45c idle(with the stock fan(which is an improvement over the vantech 6035d i was using))) under load it goes up around 60. i've heard a fair bit about the XPs running hot, but not THAT hot. as a fun side note it won't really boot at anything but 11.5x100, i can't get the damn thing to recognize as an 1800+, it's just "AMD CPU 1150" i updated the bios and tried to set it to 1533, it'll post just fine but nothing by way of OS will run/install. oy. (no speed higher than 1150 works, have yet to try lower)

(only thing i can think of might be that my power supply isn't very, uh, "good" output looks something like +5.5v -5.7v +12.8v -12.4v (don't beat me if that's very well into the "OH ****" range, but i don't really know much about how the voltage affects the system)

Keep the language clean in here.

Thelemac

[Bull]

I dont see how a stock fan beats the vantec. What kind of motherboard do you have?

Maybe the motherboard is an older 100 mhz frontside bus.

The power looks good but does it stay stable and what is the watts and brand?

[killem1x1]

The xp1800+ runs cooler than the t'birds. You shouldn't hear anything about them running hot.
Tell us your mobo, and we'll help ya out.

[Lupine]

MSI K7T266 pro is the mobo,

The vantech doesn't sit correctly or something, i think (based on the grease smear) that one of the two holes on the bottom was sitting right on top of the contact area, so that's probably it, but yeah it was running hotter with the vantech.

I remember when i first got it i tried to set the speed up to 1533 (it booted as 1150 when i got it) and it would hang during POST. usually at either early chipset initialization or testing VGA bios (as per the oh-so-fun LED POST thingie on the mobo) the only way to get it to boot again was to short it, at which point i could boot and it would tell me that CMOS was corrupt and would i like to restore from default. restoring and rebooting would boot at 1150 again. for unknown reasons now it'll post at 1533, but the OS won't boot (XP claims it detected an error and stopped booting windows to avoid damage, i have yet to work up the courage to boot and ignore errors)

though my friend (who got the same mobo/chip) had his boot at 1533 with no problems.

there was something else, but i just forgot what it was. . . oh well, maybe i'll remember at some point

Chip: XP1800+@1150 on MSI K7T266 Pro
Power supply: Allieo 250w
memory: 256 megs (i think it was V-tech?) DDR266
HDD: 4.0Gb Quantum fireball (5400RPM i think)
HDD2: 7.1Gb Maxtor somethingorother (even slower than 5400)
CD: some 40x samsung
Video: VooDoo3 2000 PCI @ 185 Mhz

can't think of anything else