"you won't have the same issues again if you use Antec Cases and power supplies"
Thanks for the advice. Your system sounds very cool (pun intended, heheh).
I don't think it was thermal issues on my main system (the AMD), but I don't know what zapped my video card. Here's my setup (before I replaced the video card with an spare older one):
I have an aluminum Lian Li case with Plexiglas side and 3 case fans and speed screws and slide out MB tray and removable 5 drive HD cage and removable floppy cage, an Enermax 350w EG365P-FC ATX Power Supply with intake & exhaust fans, a built-in south-bridge fan on a Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB, and the Gainward video card had it's own fan. The AMD Athlon XP 2100 has a copper core oversize cooler and fan. I use round cables for both of the 40gb hard drives and floppy and CDRW and DVDRW so as not to impede air flow. I only have 1 Corsair DDR-333Mhz 512MB PC2700 CAS2 Heat Spreader ram card for now.
(These are old links and may not work)
| Qty | Component | Brand | Model & Specs | REVIEWS |
| 1 | CPU | AMD | ATHLON XP 2100+ 1.73GHz Boxed Retail with Cooler & CPU Fan (Dynaeon Industrial DF126010BH1-3 |
Tom's Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Athlon XP 2100+: AMD Turns Up The Heat |
| 1 | Mother Board | Soyo | SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra PLATINUM + SPDIF audio connector + Sigma Box (SB-K7VXBP) Combo Compact Flash/Smart Media reader/writer & 2 front USB 2.0 ports | SourceMagazine.com: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra - Platinum Edition |
| 1 | Memory | Corsair | Corsair 512mb PC2700 DDR333 CAS 2.0 (CMX512-2700C2) | PC PowerZone - Corsair PC-2700 review |
| 1 | Video Card | Gainward | Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200, 4X, 128MB DDR, TV OUT+DVI+VIO AGP4x | Tom's Hardware Guide Graphics Guide: Big Little Sister - The GeForce4 Ti4200 |
| 1 | Power Supply | Enermax | EG365P-VE FCA 350W | JSI hardware - EnerMax review |
| 1 | Case | Lian-Li | PC-65 USB Black Aluminum Mid Tower ATX w/3 fans + Plexiglas side + 2 front USB 2.0 ports | Dan's Data - Lian Li PC-65B review |
| 2 | Hard Drive | Maxtor | Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm ATA133 (6L040L2*) | Mikhailtech - Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X HDD Review |
| 1 | CD-RW | PLEXTOR | PLEXTOR 40/12/40 EIDE CD-RW (PXW4012TASW) | Mikhailtech - Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A CD-RW Review |
| 4 | IDE/ATAPI Cables | Round IDE Cables: EIDE Ultra ATA/ 133/ 100/ 66 | Rounded Cables - various colors 3 IDE/Atapi + 1 Floppy |
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| 1 | FDD | Mitsumi | 1.44 3.5 FLOPPY INT BLACK | |
| 1 | Monitor | Proview International (EMC) | 15" SVGA | |
| 1 | Modem | Creative Modem Blaster | V.92 PCI DI5631 (56k Data-Fax-Voice) | |
| 1 | WebCam | Intel | CS330 Color | |
| 1 | Color Printer | Hewlett Packard | HP 2000C Pro Series Color Inkjet Printer | ZDNet: HP 2000C: Redefine Your Office Printer |
| 1 | Flatbed Scanner | Canon | CanoScan N670U flatbed scanner | PCworld reviews Canon Scanner |
| 1 | OS | Windows XP Pro |
(oooops - forgot this is a political forum - for a minute, I thought I was back on a modder's site, heheh.)
;^D
RT