Personal experience with the Orb series was not good, but the FOP 38 seems ok. running a XP1700+ on an Abit KT7A rev 1.3 MB at about 1.58 GHZ my avg. are very close to 4 hours. Win XP seems ok, I have set it to leave my icons along and to put my computer, network etc. on there.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i know my simple question has spawned new and more indepth questions > but i thank everyone for thier input and i will try running at low priority and > i will get a bigger and better heatsink when the puter show comes to town > > and not to worry > after i break this baby in for a month i will be overclocking it > friend of mine got his up to 17xxMHz with air cooling and some mods to the cpu > > and my own imput on the os debate > i didnt like w2k or xp when i first tried them > but after i got over the initial shock of everything being different > and learning how the new os worked > i like them just fine > > but i also seem to remember the same things being said about win95 when it came > out > people didnt much care for it either because it was so different from win3.1 > > but now if those same people were to go back to 3.1 > they wouldnt know how to do a damn thing > > just my opinion > > > > > Im running an XP1700+ aswell, and i got Win2k going. > > Are you sure youre not overexaggurating that time? > > "3 hrs-1Wu"...I rarely go sub-4hrs, 1 out of 10 goes faster than 4 at best. > > > > Back to topic :) > > Maybe (and probably) you already know this, but have you made sure Seti > > Driver is set to 'low' client priority? > > I had it running for a month after i got my new comp (this one even) and a > > lot of progs kept on freezing, annoying as hell. Then someone told me that > > and 'voila', works like a charm ever since :) > > > > I dont know jack about XP tho :/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:51 AM > > Subject: AURGH!!!!! > > > > > > > > > > Im having a bit of a problem. > > > I just got an AMD Athlon XP 1700+. > > > It just plain whips up some ass with seti (1wu/3hrs) > > > I figured id install WinXP as well, with my new cpu and mobo (abit) > > > ofcourse i wanted stability so i formated with NTFS on my windows > > partition > > > and fat32 on my backup partition > > > > > > Heres where the problem comes in, > > > seti keeps locking up my system!!!!! > > > i close seti everything is fine > > > i let seti run and within a few hrs it locks up > > > im using Seti Driver and seti cmd 3.03 > > > nothing else runs on boot but what Windows tells to on install and seti > > > > > > any ideas? > > > == > > > Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html > > > This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. > > > Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com > > > > > > > > > > == > > Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html > > This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. > > Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com > > > > > > == > Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html > This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. > Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com == Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com
