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Hi all,

Ive been getting by using an MSI 6191 (Slot a) mobowith the AMD 750 chipset, I recently picked up a bargain PC chips M800LMR (same set) which says it can handle "system bus bandwidth up to 1.6GB/sec" - wondering if that is good/better/worse than my MSI mobo (if not I'll keep the pulsar on the MSI until a tried and tested killer AMD mobo surfaces {NVIDEA ?)

Also - can anyone tell me just how important thermal paste is with socket a 1gb amd cpu's - is it ok to just chuck in the chip and go ?
I didn't get any paste with the kit........

Mac

<b>noooooo!!!!!!!!!</b> nooooooo!!!!!!! <b>don´t</b> run you amd-cpu without that paste between chip and cooler!!!!!!
noooo!! your poor athlon... it´s deadly - 75 percent of the heat is lead away by that paste...

and with the system bus they mean the front side bus - and this one runs at both boards with 100mhz in double data rate, eff. 200mhz, which is 1,6 GB /s highest possible data transfer - has nothing to do with the (for pulsar important) pci bus.

but because of the fsb protocol of the athlon, ev6, which is only able to make point-to-point connections, i see no way for the amd-platform to be better suited for pulsar/scope than the intel-platform... that would need completely different chipsets.

Mo

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Mo on 2001-06-07 03:49 ]</font>

Yes - AMD CPU´s are always cooking the meals hot...regardless if it´s an older or newer cpu...and make sure the cooler is sufficient.