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Yao S.

Yao S.

Joined on 09/13/06

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Most Favorable Review

More features than performance

ASUS M2NPV-VM AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M2NPV-VM AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Supports every piece of your hardware (except some over-volted ram) and it even has a HDTV component output panel!! Geforce 6150 is powerful enough to play 1080p contents with my Athlon 3000+, but don't expect it to run 3D games properly even it is the fastest intergrated GPU on planet. Onboard CPU clock/fan/chassis fan dynaimic control made the whole system extremely quiet&cool, you don't hear any sound except your good old IDE hard drive. It also comes with lots of cables. The onboard GPU can work together with other Geforce cards to support more monitors.

Cons: It won't overclock. Buy DDR2 rams with working voltage lower than 1.9v. Spend 5 more dollars and get some heatsinks to stick on the chipsets, as they are now running much hotter than CPU.

Overall Review: You don't have many choices actually, 6150 is the only integrated GPU that lets you play HDTV smoothly, and this ASUS is the only board can output HDTV signal. When you buy a power supply or case, check it has BOTH 4 pin 12V and 24Pin power connectors. If you want to game someday, you can now buy a cheap&fast single core Athlon64 and get a monter GPU later. Most games don't run faster on Dual Cores (Benchmarks do).

11/14/2006
Most Critical Review

Died after 5 month

SEgoN Mini-Ding Series 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Black)
SEgoN Mini-Ding Series 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Black)

Pros: Really really tiny. Great when it works

Cons: It died after just five month. I didnt even used that much as it was almost permanently connected to my car to play mp3s. Tried to contact manufacture for warranty repair but got no reply from them at all!!!

Overall Review: I like its design and small size, but its quality is just not that reliable.

Overclocks even on a medicore mobo

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - Athlon 64 X2 Brisbane Dual-Core 2.6 GHz Socket AM2 65W Black Edition Processor - ADO5000DSWOF
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - Athlon 64 X2 Brisbane Dual-Core 2.6 GHz Socket AM2 65W Black Edition Processor - ADO5000DSWOF

Pros: My mobo can't even adjust CPU voltage but the CPU can still go over 3Ghz. I put a stock heatsink from my old Athlon 3000+ (it has 62W TDP) onto this dual core 5000+ (65W TDP). The temp is well controlled, idles at 30c and stay below 50c in gaming. This saves me a new heatsink!

Cons: You need to customize the Cool & Quite settings through RMclock after you overclock. Otherwise the cpu is maxed out at 2.6Ghz.

Overall Review: Best choice for people who want to upgrade from single core Athlon which comes with a heatsink powerful enough to cool the new chip.