[aaggoswami]

Originally Posted by Saiyan

^^ arre, why are giving such a big story. All u need is a proper installation of the Heatsink. I have used the a AMD X2 3800+ (oced to 2.7ghz with .1 volt increase ) 939 processor and it never has crossed more than 55c in the worst chennai's summer heat with the stock heat sink . Make sure you have enough air flow in ur cabinet. Keep ur cabinet open if necessary.

I have checked my heatsink installation. Its perfect along with the thermal paste. Yes My cabinet lacks proper airflow.

Originally Posted by devarshi84

The new AMD X2's come with fan temperature settings. Make the fan run early and your system will run cool.

I have installed N number of amd systems and never had trouble on any of them.

I have assembled 4 AMD and around 16 Intel systems and none of them are haveing problems. My fan runs at approximately 3300 rpm since startup.

Originally Posted by flipsyde

i've been running an AMD 2800+ Athlon 64 processor (754 pin) on a ASUS K8S-MX board for the last 3 years without any problem!

i did face heating issues once after the service guy made his regular visit ..... turned out he was new on the job and wiped the thermal grease clean off the heatsink and processor!!!!!!!!!!!

AMD's have always served me well. they do run at a higher temperature than the intels but its never bothered me ..... but recent times have shown that the intel has taken a leap into the lead. even the latest phenom processor doesn't live up to its rival the core2quad. its a tad bit cheaper though ...... but i guess gone are the days when AMD was considered just a cheaper processor option......people today want performance and rightly at that.

AMD has lost edge, and thats why I recommend Intel. Now we are in multimedia stage and we do want performance. No body would mind spending 2K for intel setup.
You are perfect in your guess.

Originally Posted by reignofchaos

Well aaggoswami you'd have realized by now that there's no replacement for a good power supply. If you are still running on iball or intex or whatever PSUs, then please don't blame AMD for your troubles. A good PSU costs roughly 2000 bucks and trust me its completely worth it to avoid troubles.

There is absolutely no use skimping on power supply as it'll surely kill hardware in the long run. Personally I'm so scared of insufficient power ruining my hardware, I use roughly twice the wattage of whats actually recommended.

My main rig consists of a Core 2 Duo E8400 overclocked to 4GHz and a pair of SLI'ed 8800 ultra cards, water cooling and half a dozen hard drives. This can easily run on a 600-700W power supply. However I have a 1200 watter (which obviously costed me a bomb) just in case for that rainy day.

It never helps if you skimp on a PSU. Hardware will be dead in the long run.

Yes, there is no replacement for proper PSU. I thought that 280W is suffiient as K9MM-V as X2 wont eat more than 200W as my processor itself is 65W. Rest of the entire system would eat around 130-135W because there wasnt any external graphics card and the onboard graphics are always sufficient for me as I am not a gamer. I hate PC games.
But it failed on a rainy day ( 280 W ). I wonder how you came to know about that.
I prefer now to have 400W, and its working properly. I am too late to make any changes now, and I will have to use this overheating setup for atleast 4 years.

I soon plan to upgrade to Antec or Asus cabinet and things would be better.
All my upgrades are in the old intex cabinet, and now the latest motherboard just about fits into it. yes the northbridge also gets hot and this motherboard is fanless design. So a new cabinet is a necessacity and not a want.

Can somebody help me for flashing BIOS?