Man, I must be the exception to the rule. I have an AMD K6III 450, Viper 770, with 6 drives in there, no extra cooling. And all that with a 250W power supply. Never had a problem. (well, except when my CD-ROM decided to puke- but that was unrelated) Its been going strong for a few years now. Jay On Friday 20 July 2001 4:32 pm, you wrote: > I've been running a Diamod v770 Ultra on my K6-2 box for along time. No > problem. (Using a Fic 2013 or a Epox board.) > > With the K62 and 3 there are very important things to consider for a > stable box: > 300 watt power supply. Anything else just doesn't cut it. > Proper cooling. Thermal greese, intake and exaust fans... > chipset. Only a Via chipset will do. If it's ALI, SiS, other, run the > other way, fast! > > When I went to an Athlon system my v770 continued to work, no problems. > But, it has been replaced with a GeForce3 now. ;) > > The problem I always had was heat. Once I got that taken care of, the box > was solid. > > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org > "We can learn much more from wise words, little > from wisecracks and less from wise guys." > --William Arthur Ward > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com Q: What is the difference between Texas and yogurt? A: Yogurt has culture.