liamC
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The computer shop might also tell you to feck off and you've lost your warranty if they can tell you've been messing about with the hardware.
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Reedy
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actualy its 2083mhz to be precise, u dont need to change the voltage settings, u dont need to change the multiplier either, those are used for overclocking.
AS i have told u before, its going to be the fsb settings.
Amd Athlons burn out at about 70 degrees.
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Reedy
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if its like where i work then they wont turn their backs on a customer. The warranty isnt voided when it is opened. The warranty will only be voided if physical dammage is created.
Because they are a small independant company they usually dont have a warranty contract for opening it up. u cant break the thing opening it up 
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Cybermonkey
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like i said, he dont want to be overclocking it. I remember on that really hot day last summer, i had the stock fan on and the processor got up to 80 degrees then shut itself down. I then proceded to the nearest computer shop for a meaty fan
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Reedy
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u r very lucky, athlons usually burn out around the 70 mark, Durons are the best because they are made of ceramic they can take 90 degrees.
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l33t corsa
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60c is fine IMO. I regularly get over 60c, but then again it's completely silent  Its when it starts crashing that you have a problem. I can run my heatsink passive if I want using a undervolted XP2500M... that gets to about 70c but is 100% stable.
BTW I wouldn't take off your heatsink unless you want to clean and re apply the thermal paste.
Also my NForce 2 mobo shows XP1700 if I set the fsb & multiplier settings to what an XP1700 should, XP1800 if I set them to XP1800 settings etc etc.
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Cybermonkey
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not all motherboards can support that technology l33t, especially those with a VIA chipset. 60 degrees might well be stable, but you are reducing your performance by a substantial amount running at that temperature. Yes i was very lucky when mine hit 80c, no damage on chip apart from slight blackening of the the script written onto the chip however, it runs mega-cool now and has allowed me to increase the FSB a little, especially with MSI's corecenter software
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l33t corsa
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The performance at 60 is the same as at 35. I have throttling set at 75c in the bios. So what if it reduces the life of the chip, it's not as if I'll be using it in 2 years anyway. The silence is bliss.
The barton is rated to 85c anyway. http://myplc.com/sony/docs/amd_processor_reference.html
The fan on my mum's laptop doesn't start until 65c. People are too paranoid about temperatures... motherboard temp reporting isn't wholey accurate anyway.
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Cybermonkey
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I believe a happy PC, is a cool PC
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Dan B
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Mine tends to only get up to 45-C (cpu-temp) and 30-C (mobo-temp) under very heavy load.
Then again, I do have two front-mounted fans, two rear-mounted fans (one case, one PSU), and one down-facing fan on the PSU...
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koolkorsa
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rite -update. Went to computer shop. And i made him show me the chip inside my computer and it did indeed says AMD2600 on it. He had the computer for a few hours after that and messed around with some settings in the bios. He's now got it saying 2600XP+ in windows device manager and on the boot up screen. He said he had to put in some jumpers onto the motherboard? All confusing the fuck out of me anyway.
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Reedy
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Reedy Wins Again.
I said in one of the posts abit further up that it is either the jumper or fsb settings in the bios
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