ordered some new bits

[suicidal_monkey]

I think its a personal thing. some of my mates run their pc's at 60Hz and then look at mine (100Hz atm ) and see no difference. Heck, I used to run my old 15" at 60Hz, but now everything has to be 85+ or my eyes detect it and start to complain. High fps helps reduce eyestrain I think.

My monitor could apparently go somewhere like 200Hz @ 1280x1024  8O but 100Hz does me fine and will hopefully keep it running longer. Plus my ancient gf2ultra can just about cope with 1024x768@100fps. dropping to 50 is barely noticeable, but too much smoke and stuff and it drops to 30 and 20 and then you really do notice it. To think I used to play at 6-8fps on my first pc (2-4 at heavy times - software mode) :roll:

[Stryker]

Sorry to bore you all but I'm doing this for anyone else like whos last big play (time taken to mess around) with a motherboard was when the P90 was the dogs bollox :-)

CoolerXP does more.  Its pretty cool, its activley monitors the cpu idle time and throttle back the cpu. so if your machine was 80% idle, with coolerxp it throttles back so the proccessor is only 10% idle, hence running much slower and COOLER.

Got another feature I didnt know boards could support... its auto over-clocking.  Like coolerxp this monitors the proccessors utilisation and when the cpu is satuated it ups the FSB!!  Cool you can overclock your proccessor and still enjoy a relativley long life from it !!!  I've not dared run this as there is no need.  It starts off (first time ever run) by upping your FSB one 1Mhz at a time till your pc resets/crashes so it knows the upper limit..... yeah right like I really want some microshite software controlling my CPUs FSB :-)

[sheepy]

saves u doing it manually tho