Posts by aussie

Well after 7 years of day in day out 24/7 usage my old faithful 8890 (circa 2003) has died. Cause of death - mobo failure (probably a stress fracture). Still have a second 8890 which I bought as a backup machine, probably get...

You may find that the noise you have is related to the internal memory fan. There is a thread about fixing that. Basically the internal fan resonates against the motherboard - hence the loud noise. If you get some of that thin...

Should do. A quick check on the PQI website seems to indicate they have the right specs. I noticed that PQI also has the dual channel matched pair ones. Don't know if new egg does those. The idea is that the 8890 reads from both chips...

That should be ok. I did a quick look at it. The 333MHz issue is from the older model 8880 and they haven't updated the user manual. I like quite a few 8890 owners have been running 400MHz x 2 Gb for some time and it works really well.

<flame> I am fast coming to the conclusion that a lot of tech support people are actually failed call centre staff... There is rarely any in depth training going on. They never seem to use Google to do any research. They...

you the man hkancyr

Have you posted in the forsale/wanted subforum - you might get lucky

Just as an aside, did you read my comments in a previous post about the speed difference between a 3.4EE and the 3.2 chips. It may not be worth the hassle to do the upgrade. You will get better results from tweaking XP, buying 7200...

It will take a P4EE which is what you are talking however the fans will be on a lot more when ambient temps are high (ie summer). Disclaimer: I have not done this upgrade but others have I believe. Do a search on the forum for P4EE...

Charles to the rescue Nice to know Sager still cares about us "oldies" Go 8890