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    Watercooling Guide @ Toms

    This article is pretty funny. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/2...or-watercooling-your-pc_uk/page10.html So they decided how far the PC would OC on its stock cooler, and then compared temperatures with water cooling. What for? If you're spending extra $$$ on a watercooler, then it's...
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    What Would you Build for $1500?!?

    ASUS P5B Deluxe LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $179 CORSAIR XMS2 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory - Retail 2*$99 = $198 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 - Retail $311 EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce...
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    Dell Axim X51v PDA, whats best GPS?

    Reviews: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/item-menu.php?idSubCat=5 Just find a device with the Sirfstar III chipset in. Do not buy a GPS device without this chipset. Examples include the Holux GPSLim GR-236, which I have and is fine. I don't think it matters, so longas you have Sirf III.
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    SiSoft Sandra broke my PC

    The drive had been in my PC for 15 months. It had important data on it :-). Luckily I had it in RAID1 so no great loss.
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    SiSoft Sandra broke my PC

    after I ran the Sisoft burn-in program, the PC broke.
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    SiSoft Sandra broke my PC

    Looks like a I could have a hard drive failure. I've checked the POST messages (it doesn't stop for some reason), and I get: SATA 1: WDC WD4000YR-01PLB0 01.06A01 Ultra DMA Mode-5 S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status Bad
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    SiSoft Sandra broke my PC

    It's a Asus P5BE-Plus motherboard (very similar to P5B Deluxe). The motherboard has a 24-pin connector, plus a 4-pin connector. My 20-pin plug from my PSU is plugged into the frst 20-pins on the 24-pin conector, and the 4-pin to the 4-pin connector. The PSU is an old one (TruPower 380W)...
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    SiSoft Sandra broke my PC

    Sorry, I might not have made it clear. I originally had a Sempron 2600+ build (about 2 years ago). Using the Antec PSU. Worked fine. But it was too slow, so I upgraded to Core 2 Duo, new motherboard, same RAM, same PSU That worked fine for 9 months, but I had minor compatibility issues...
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    SiSoft Sandra broke my PC

    Here's my story - had a Core 2 Duo E6600 + AsRock motherboard, couple of SATA drives, 2GB RAM, and an Antec TruPower 380W power supply. Upgraded to Vista, and got stability problems (crashes in Vista) due to the onboard graphics on the motherboard. Bought an X1650 Pro, but didn't fix the...
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    Memory Latency & o'clocking

    Check the corsair site. It will list the correct speeds. Yes, you shold set them manually. The problems is your default voltage from the motherboard is probably 1.8V, but the RAM needs 2.1V to go at its rated speed. So if you set the recommended voltage and timings, that is correct. For...
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    N00B overclocking help

    So what's going to be fastest - faster RAM speed, or tighter timings? E.g., if I leave things at stock (FSB 266 MHz), then my options are: 1:1 divider - DDR2-533 4-4-4-12 3:2 divider - DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 2:1 divider - DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 Which would fastest?
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    2GB or 4GB of RAM for Vista?

    Not sure how well mixed sizes will OC. I have 4*1GB. I also have a 512MB vcard. I get 2.93GB RAM available in Vista....
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    N00B overclocking help

    I've got my E6600 and my P5B-E Plus mboard with 4 * 1GB Corsair PC2-6400 RAM (CM2X1024-6400C4). Just trying to work out my settings for OC. Corsair says: Tested at EPP SPD settings (4-4-4-12) at 2.1V SPD programmed at: JEDEC standard 5-5-5-18 values at 800MHz EPP standard...
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    Vista - don't expect to be able to change motherboard without reinstalling Windows

    I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If I turn off my PC and change my SATA mode from IDE to AHCI, it's not changing during boot. It's changed. Windows could deal with it surely. It's not changed in the middle of the boot process. That's cool. So when Intel release working drivers...
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    Does Vista 32-bit see 4GB of memory as 4GB?

    Actually I'd be happy with one that would use exactly 4gb, never mind *more*