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AGP will be gone? Is that why I can't find mobos that support 3.3 volt AGP? All the mobos I see on my supplier only support 1.3 volts, even the good motherboards. For my server I have to buy a PCI card because no video card in the market can be handled by the motherboards. They are all 3.3 volts now.
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So 3.3v is old? I thought the newer cards such as the 64MB and up ones required 3.3 volts because 1.3 was not enough. What I find funny is that my Radeon 7500 64MB card fitted in the very old P2 board, but it also fits in my fairly new AMD board, so I figured they were both 1.3 volt, and that the newer boards were 3.3 since the slot is different. I can't seem to find a fairly priced agp card that will fit in this slot. Most cards my supplier have under $100 are 3.3. I don't want to pay over $100 for a server video card. But I found a PCI one so that will get the job done. I'll be telnetting or VNCing my way to the server most of the time anyway. I'll only use the video card for installation and troubleshooting, if I get problems.
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Red volts are push watt are the consumed. So when shirnk the core of a chip less voltage it required hence why newer card require less voltage. Now the more fratures as in RAM and other stuff burns the watts hence why some AGP card have a molex connecter on them now days.
When the Prescott goes to the LGA 775 socket the voltage required will be 1.2 volts (rumors on tech sites) but sence socket 478 isnt designed for the power distrubtion its has to run higher (1.475 volts) voltage making it run hotter (ever layer foil over a volt battery?) hence why some of the chip has been disabled: it would fry itself. When the voltage drops heat will be reduced and Intel can enable it.
See voltage goes down over time wattage goes up.
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I always thought high voltage : low amps = less heat, and low voltage : high amps = more heat. When you short circuit a battery, the voltage stays the same, but the amps go very high.
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I think the way it works is that it only uses what it needs, so even though the processor can use 90 amps and has it available from the power source, it probably never goes near it, otherwise current inside a computer would be deadly. So I think that's where heat comes in, the percentage of used amps is lower, there is less heat. So if it's using 0.1 amps and there's 90 available, it's less hard on the circuit as if it would e using 0.1 and only have 1 available.
That's what I assume anyway... I would not consider myself an expert in electricity. I can install a light switch or solder wires in my computer but that's about it.
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Yep win2k R0X0R. I've been using it for more then a year with no problems. Only clean installed about 3 times and twice was because of carelessness (virus) and once was because of some odd problem (monitor was turned off in video settings, could not see anything).
I used to clean install win98 about twice a week when I used it. Definatly not for power users. It would probably be the same with XP if I used that. From the little experience I have with XP, it's very easy to screw it up.
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I dont know $230 for a 3.0Ghz P4 is hella cheap A barton AXP 3000+ is only $20 less at newegg. That and the socket A line is dead when socket 478 will go to 3.6Ghz P4's
The only thing I would do differently is going with with an Abit IC7 Max 3. Its the best board and you never need to worry about drives it supports 6 SATA HDD's out of the box plus 4 IDE drives. for the SATA you want you can have 2 is RAID 0/1 and 4 in 0/1/0+1 if you want! Plus it comes with 6 channel audio on board.
