Recent content by ascian5

i've always used aftermarket stuff before and never had to worry about it. if i hadn't been reading so much stuff in anticipation of my RAM coming tomorrow i wouldn't have thought twice about it here. as it is i took it off, cleaned it all, and reapplied my AS5. now i'll spend the rest of my...

I am putting together a new PC with an e6600. I wasn't paying much attention while I was assembling it last night as I was going 50 things at once. My question is, does the c2d come with some sort of thermal pad/past already applied to the retail heatsink? I recall seeing 3 gray stripes on...

ocz is where i was leaning in the first place, i think that's what i'll do. thanks guys.

I am looking to bump up to 2GB of RAM (2x1024 has been recommended to me). I have been running a gig of corsair PC3200LL leftover from an intel system and it has been doing me well. But I would like a 2 stick solution for 2 gigs of RAM, I don't have much interest in overclocking, but I would...

I think you hit the nail right on the head there with the 2 stick solution. I'm going to do exactly that. Guess it's time to do a little memory research on what will do me right and sell these guys off. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have been running 1gb (512x2) of Corsair TWINX XMS PC3200LLPT memory in my machine for sometime now, love the stuff. However I had the infamous Battlefield 2 problems and some wants for speed in other areas so I decided to up the ol' RAM count to 2gig. Instead of purchasing from a retailer I...

I just tried to show my friend what was going on. PLugged it in like I always have, everything is working fine. Don't ask me why, I don't know. I am completely weirded out, and a little angry at the countless hours I wasted yesterday plugging in and unplugging things. ARG!! Oh well...

I tried plugging them in as jsut a single master drive rather than running both simultaneously. Both to the motherboard, and through the IDE controller. I suppose I could dig up a 2 channel IDE cable, I don't have anything to lose.

I built a new computer about 2 months ago now, and have recently run into some trouble concerning my hard drives. This is the first time it has happened, and I have not had trouble like this before. My system specs are: Windows XP Pro w/ SP1 Coolermaster Wavemaster Alum. Case Antec...

Not to speak to soon, but it appears that I found the issue. By removing the NVIDIA GART driver, and doing the appropriate restart, everything seems to be working fine. Now I'm an AMD newb and don't really know what that does, but everything seems to be working and at an acceptable rate of...

This is a brand new hard drive that Windows and my other programs are installed on, I've defragged and scandisked them all. I've upgraded to the newest 1.8 BIOS for my motherboard. I out the real fan there and it helped. I think that what may be leading to high temps is that I put the...

ha, i searched the forums and didn't find anything, but a google search returned an anandtech thread on very much the same thing. Unfortunately.....no one had a solution. Oi.

System specs below. I built a new computer and finally got a fan for my heatsink today, so I was anxious to fire up a couple games and other assorted benchmarks. I can run prim95 fine and that's all I've realy done so far. However today I installed HL2/CS:Source and SWAT 4. I can load both...

I say leave them also. Get yourself some small zip ties and some electrical tape or something, bundle up the unused cables together and just tape them to the top of the case. That will get them out of the way at least. It's inside your computer case anyways, not like you're having to look at...

It was from the old motherboard. On the Asus I think it used a VIA 6140 chipset or something similar. I sold my old computer with that mobo though, I'll just have to call the guy and ask him to let me borrow it for a couple hours I guess. I only used RAID for the convenience of 1 drive, but I...