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I'm looking for memory for my Abit AA8-DuraMax MB. I would like 2gigs { this is for mother-n-law + folding rig } and it doesn't need to be anything special. She just uses it for normal crap like email, Quicken,some games { basic stuff }.It is going to be used with a Intel Pentium 4 660 CPU. I won't be overclocking this at all.


What do you guys recommend ???

Thx Guys

edit: here is the board on abit's site --> AA8-DuraMAX <--

This is what I run in all my Abit boards: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227139 That should be fine for her, I even run it in my gaming rig (4Gb of course )

Man, I can't believe the prices of DDR2 RAM these days. That's 2Gb of decent RAM for $30. And there's a $15 rebate? Chris.

Splurg and get 4GB / 2x30 = $60 - 2x15 = $30 , place it as two orders. One to her house, one to yours. Use USPS if possible so you get lowest shipping - means you only pay like $45 total in the end and the extra ram will help with the folding.

Greybear wrote:Splurg and get 4GB / 2x30 = $60 - 2x15 = $30 , place it as two orders. One to her house, one to yours. Use USPS if possible so you get lowest shipping - means you only pay like $45 total in the end and the extra ram will help with the folding.

Thx Everyone.

I'll do that GB for dang sure

Didn't Want to start A New Thread so ......

Got everything guys going but I'm trying to get he HSF to run 100% but I can't seen to. I found the CPU temp in the bios and disabled it but no go. I tried to set the temp and no go any other suggestions

It's the stock s**t sink fan

You have to go into the Abit EQ. Then go to FanEQ Control and in there you can change the fan speed. Fan PWN Duty Cycle low - bring that up to what you want. You can run that 100% if you want that is your fan speed. The high is for when you first startup the fan will always speed than it will slow down. You can change both, but I have always left the high one a lone and just adjust the low one. One thing I forgot is if the FanEQ control is not enable you will have to enable it

What is the Max speed for the stock HSF ?? I tried it that way and a the fastest I can get it is 1680 RPM to 1800 RPM. Does that sound right ? The thing is idling at 45c in the bios which seems high to me.


Thx guys

That is about right and I hate the stock HSF. I use a HSF at this site but you have to modifie it a little to get it to fit. You have to cute a little bit off of one side so it doesn't hit the caps. I use them on all my 775 boards and this was the only MB I had to do that too.

http://www.techkool.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=12&products_id=87

I need a temp monitoring software that will support a Intel P4 660. I have tried Core Temp , realtemp & speed fan. With core temp & real temp I get a error that says Processor not supported and with speed fan all the temps read -48c. { wish that was true }. As for uGuru I get a mixed bag. I could start it up on a cold boot and it read 55c then close it and reopen it and it read 35c or 40c and so on { just jump all around }. Even when you let it run for a few hours and try it I still get different readings when I open and close it.

Is there a temp monitoring software that will support a chip that old ?? Now I'll leave ya all alone

It sounds like the heatsink is not seated right. I had just build one of those about 2 months ago and I made sure that peice of junk heatsink was seated right. Plus what I do is once I get the board up and running I let it just run for a couple of days to let the heatsink to seat in. The AMD Phenom II that I just build and the CPU was running at about 48c and today I check on it and it is down to 35c. Plus the older Intel cpu's did run a little hotter than the new ones. What Bios ID are you running ? This board did have a probelm reading cpu temp.

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_bios_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Bios&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=AA8-DuraMAX&pSOCKET_TYPE=LGA775