it's definitely better than the pentium 4, coz it's dual core.
the athlon x2 3800+ is meant to compete with the pentium D.
so probably the performance is almost similar.

This post has been edited by dlwl: Nov 21 2009, 12:00 AM

IMHO Phenom II procs are quite nice and easy to OC

haha, a lot of us jumping ship d
i managed to solve my problem by downgrading the bios. now everything seems fine.
looks lke the new bios didn't like my processor

remember that you'll need cat6 cables too instead of the normal cat5 ones

@jcsy,
i thought cat5 cables can only do 100MB?
coz when we plug it into the lan port it says 100mbps

Maybe can try resitting the hardware, and check the rams too. sometimes might be due to faulty rams.

sell the via matx mobo
IMHO 865 should be a better chipset, rite?

better expandability options too, just in case you need to use pci cards,
since it's a full-fledged atx mobo

it happened to my friend's p4 pc before too..previously just running 80gb, booting into windows was really fast. when added a new 160gb hdd, it sort of like slowed down for 5-10 seconds..weird

maybe it's just that pc hardware outside KL area is expensive, i notice that too in my hometown. some items are more expensive compared to the prices here and LYP.

agree with edmin. normally when i face this kind of problem i would check the psu first. if the problem still persists, i'll strip everything out, and test with just the bare hardware. then can slowly diagnose what's teh problem

why don't you use the acbel instead of the icute? then leave the icute as backup psu