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Originally posted by Feivel
i think you have the same mainboard like me
k7 elitegroupe?
but my board is still working
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Yup, ks75a rev3.1. Their most "solid" board. Unfortunately I abused it beyond what people would even dare put their 400 dollar boards through.
Last summer, crappy heatsink. PS7, UT, UT2K3, outlook, at least 12 porn browsers, winamp runnign 24/7 with a dsp pluggin that loves eating up soundcard's bandwidth all running at same time. I'd just pause a game and alt-tab around. Overclocked to 284mhz on cpu and ram bus. AT that time I only had 256 mb sdram... so page file was hit every 5 seconds. Also have powermenu's transparencies runnign 24/7. Not to mention 17 IRC channels open with 15,000 lines of text buffered in main memory per channel.
Then my power supply blew up. Literaly! that little POS generic 250w couldnt cut it anymore. So I had to get myself a beafy 300w with MAJOR TOC wattage and sperate filters on each chain.
SO moral of story is. it can take a licking, just give it a beafy power supply and lots of cool air and it will last like the big boys. Stupid me,,,, I let it get cancer in the fans.
Now THAT is abuse. Oh yeah. Only rebooted every month or two.