Posts by RC30

I got it from nathorofmoo in the FS forum. He had 6 Engineering Samples. Yes he's legit. Look at his HEAT with the other buyers. He's a good seller to do business with. I don't think he has anymore left but you can ask. Filippo, Yes that...

Nice work Ken. Scores look right on. Could you also check your CPU temps and post them ? I can't see your BIOS version on the screen shot. are you using the Intel 0901 ?

So far I'm tickeled pink. quality wise it blows Dell away. BUT.. with the Merom in there it does run a little hot. 53c right now, 58c in games. That's about 5c degrees hotter then core duo I believe. I'm going to look into it futher. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by DoubleDown ok, also with the motherboard in there right now can you install a merom cpu in it as easily as the T2400? just plop it right in or is there more to it than that? If...

Quote: Originally Posted by nikolasvm Very nice... How much didi you pay in your Merom processor... Im sorry to ask... curiosity... Nice! I got mine from the for sale forum here. You can find them for a...

Sure is. I just finished building mine and spent a lot of time photographing and documenting how to build the Z96J. That review beat me to it and included almost everything I was going to put into the my review. It is very well done.

Thanks to Ken and GenTech I now have a working Merom Z96J. After just installing Windows and Asus CD drivers, I ran 3Dmark 5 and 6 at default settings. 3dmark5 = 4044 and 3dmrk6 = 1753. I'll try the omega's too and report back. I'm...

DDDa did answer, and I agree with him.

Quote: Originally Posted by Borin I have been looking for parts for the Z96J also. I've never built one, but from reading many posts about building notebooks/laptops, it sounds all so simple. My only concern was the...

Quote: Originally Posted by ilumma I'd be ordering the Z96J from G2P with a Core 2 Duo T7400 (unless someone knows of a better place to buy the chip, I've only found desktop models elsewhere) and 3954 Mini-Pci...