Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Yes the dual core Phenom IIs are turning out fantastic. You should not depend on unlocking them, but stock they are very good CPUs for the price. All AMDs, Athlons/Phenoms/Phenom IIs have always performed quite decently in games compared to Intel so it's no surprise to see the X2 550 doing well. If my 7750 BE can push a 9800GTX+ this well in games, I see no reason why the 550 can't do the same job but faster with lower power use. I'm certainly interested in one for my 780G board. Thus my wondering if they are AM2+ compatible.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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By the way thanks for the youtube link, I saw a few of these once on someone else's PC and I'd been looking for them for ages!

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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Originally posted by Tap_paT:

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OK. Take (strike?) 3
:P
CASE: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119106
MOBO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131366
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103471
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104073
Video: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125236
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
DVD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136144
Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004

Im hoping to buy all this OR would this MOBO; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...abyte%20ma790xt Work better?

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the only thing i would change would be the dvd burner(other than a Q9650 and a ASUS P5Q Deluxe). take a look at this bad boy.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...7118030

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The 840i (or 840b as it was recognized by our computers, probably a region identifier), is not only a Lightscribe enabled drive, but also a ram.cfm" class="forum_link" target="_blank">DVD-RAM reader and writer among other things. It is capable of all high speed writing such as 16X DVD±R and 8X/6X for DVD+RW and -RW media respectively. Last but not least, the drive offers 8X burning speed for DVD+R DL and 4X for DVD-R DL media.

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Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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For a little while now my computer has had trouble turning on. A lot of times it just powers up and does nothing, no post or anything. At first I thought it might be because of a ram problem but it works with all of my sticks. Although the best method to get it to start again appears to be taking out or putting in ram. It also BSOD's and hard freezes a lot which has never really occurred before.

I don't know if this is at all related but this problem first occurred the first time I went to use the computer after having a house fan installed and it got put on the same circuit that my desktop is on by accident. I know it makes absolutely no sense as to how that could affect it but it's the only thing that changed. Immediately after that it went from completely stable to crashing nearly every hour.

If anyone has any idea as to what might be wrong or how I can make it stable again I'll take any advice I can get.

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Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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Thanks Russ. My RAM is SPD controlled, don't know if that's the same as EPP since I can't find any documentation on my MB (commando) that mentions EPP. Everest reported a voltage of 2.1v right before it BSOD. Bios reports voltage 1.904v though. Going to set the voltage to 2.1v which should be the stock voltage for Dominator series ram.

Edit: It seems the 1GB sticks get 2.2v while the 2GB sticks only get 2.1v. This could be because of the slots their in although since it's booting I don't feel like moving them right now.

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Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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Thanks for the advice Russ. I think I've got them put in right and after manually setting the voltage to 2.1v it's been alright. We'll see tomorrow morning if it continues to work lol.

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