22 inch LCD: 775 Prescott vs 939

[bigbeark]

I was gifted a 22-inch Samsung monitor by my nephew.

I have been using my Intel 915GAV with Prescott 3.4HT with OCZ vanquisher cooler. I wish I had bought more of these coolers when they were clearing them at $10 a pop. Keeps the machine at 61C when streaming movies. Machine is quiet with lag-free video.

I have several 939 Asus A8N-E machines and each one of them has some defect that dampens the enjoyment. All of them will run at 41C but only one of them, with Opteron 180 CPU (dual-core) is as fast as the D915GAV and it keeps losing it's BIOS settings, even with a new battery. The others have poorer video performance with similar video cards. I have 3800+ and 3500+ single-cores - jumpy video at fullscreen. The A8N-E does not seem to be a very durable board.

Has anyone tried the Corsair H60 liquid cooler or can recommend a Prescott
tamer? The stock coolers just get too loud.

Alternatively please suggest a better 939 board & CPU combo that will give good video streaming.

I know a Core 2 machine will do this, I just have these machines on hand and enjoy using them!

[c_hegge]

Re: 22 inch LCD: 775 Prescott vs 939

The A8N-E does not seem to be a very durable board.

Of course it's not durable. It's ASUS.