think i may have screwed myself...

VIA Apollo > all That had to be one of the best chipsets I've ever had. Even though it was on the old S423 boards it was still an amazing chipset.
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Yes and the KT333 and KT266 were marvelous ... but everything since KT400 has been pooey

i am not gonna tell you all what it was, as i feel kind of stupid to have missed something so simple in my frustration
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ATX12?

(12V power cable, doh! shh!).
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Hehe.


Btw Z, ... on your mobo where it prints the model number .. do you have Rev 1.xx or 2.xx? That said, what does CPUz tell you your rev is?
 
CPUz says rev 1.xx.

to be perfectly honest, so far i love everything about this thing. every game i have installed and tried i have played with everything turned up all the way and it runs smooth as butter. :D
 
lol...well at least you got a brand new CPU with no bent pins. I can run my computer without the 4-pin 12v connector in (am doing so right now) and it seems to be more stable since my PSU is dying and 12v rails goes to hell when i play games.

Do you know what week ths CPU is?
 
i spent about 2 hrs bending the pins straight with a small knife on the first CPU. lol. that was fun!

what do you mean by what week my cpu is?
 
zkiller said:
i spent about 2 hrs bending the pins straight with a small knife on the first CPU. lol. that was fun!

what do you mean by what week my cpu is?
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on the chip itself there is a stepping (series if numbers and letters) in one of the # it tells you the week it was made. certain week #'s are better than others for overclocking. just wondering which u had...
 
4W4K3 said:
on the chip itself there is a stepping (series if numbers and letters) in one of the # it tells you the week it was made. certain week #'s are better than others for overclocking. just wondering which u had...
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reffer to one of the previous post of this thread. it's already been posted. :)
 
Praetor said:
AthlonXPs dont need the ATX12
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Why's it there then? Everyone tells me i need it to have stable voltages and i'm an idiot for not using it, but having it in or out makes no difference to my crappy PSU. kinda odd...
 
Praetor said:
But the actual printing on the board says Rev 2.xx?
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yup, it says rev. 2.00 on the board and 1.xx in CPUz. :shrug: i am quite happy with the board so far. just need to take the time to finally install SP2 now. :)
 
i am pretty sure that my old MSI board, K7N i think, had the 12V plug as well. that's an Athlon XP board btw. ;)

anyways, i finished HL2 today! :D
 
Aye, never seen an AthlonXP board (or anything prior to A64s) with those ... that's why the PSUs were marketed as "P4 Compatible" :)
 
Praetor said:
It's not (i.e., can you find me a counterexample)
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i might be talking about something totally different here, so my bad if this is not what you are describing lol. i'll take a pic really quick.

Is this what you are meaning? it's a 4-pin connector and add stability for 12v rail, since my PSU is jacked up it works better unplugged, but b4 it was messed up it seemed to stay ~11.98v. so i leave it unplugged.
 
Cromewell said:
yes that is the ATX12V, is that on your current K7 board 4W4K3?
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NF7-S Rev. 2.0...sry the pics are so small:( max of 39.1kb

Taken with Casio EX-Z40 you guys helped me pick out. Loving this camera, perfect for an ameatuer like me:)
 
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phuk. LOL and ive assembled about seven or eight NF7S boards and never noticed :P Here are the official shots:

Normal
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S2
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Well the S2 was designed as the overclocking variant ... at least according to Abit (hmmm where's tristan when we need him) :rolleyes:
 
to me it looks like the S2 was the non OC designed variant, but that is just judging by those images posted.
 
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