I reduced the video hardware acceleration three clicks and now DVD's play just fine. However no amount of additional voltage to the northbridge seems to allow DVD's to play. Playing video clips of decent resolution from the hard drive was also causing the system to crash but I was able to fix this by raising the voltage to north bridge by 0.05V. Now I have achieved the results depicted above which I think are great?Įverything works except trying to play a DVD crashes the system everytime (I tried it at stock CPU speeds as well). With the new optical drive I was able to install Windows XP and overclock the system but it ran rather warm so I upgraded the heatsink to the Zerotherm BTF90 which made a drastic difference. OK I didn't realize my optical drive was IDE and the new board only supports SATA so I had to order and wait for an LG GGC-H20LK from Newegg. Skill F2-6400CL4D-4GBPI-B memory from Newegg so I could advance into the realm of overclocking and digital video output. Recently I bought this Foxconn G45M-S motherboard and G. Got an E-machines W3609 a couple years ago when Tiger had them for $240 (refurbished).Ī few months later I acquired an E6700 for $150 from Ebay and a Zerotherm CF900 from Newegg.

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