Recent content by aussie greg

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    hard drive performance features for gaming

    I'm rebuilding a computer which I will use almost entirely for playing COH and other RTS games. When you look at say Tom's Hardware HDD charts, there are various performance measurements optioned. But which ones are most relevant for my type of game playing....write speed; read speed, etc? And...
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    what is quietest cpu fan for intel775

    Thanks Woodbutcher for your reply. I didn't want to get into lapping...don't have the patience for that..but spent more time researching. Eventually I bought the Noctua NH-U12P and set it up with the 'low noise adapter'. This is a beautiful device. Takes a bit of work to put it together to...
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    Best Case to handle the size of the new video cards?

    Gigabyte Aurora 570, specifically longer to suit bigger video cards. I have the smaller version and it is a really solid, great features case.
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    Need case recommendations

    My Gigabyte Aurora case, fails in not having a lift out mobo tray, but is great in all other respects. The new version, the aurora 570 is slightly longer to accommodate the new larger video cards. This http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php is a link to an Australian site, which is hugely better...
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    what is quietest cpu fan for intel775

    The cooler I have at present is really noisy ..Thermaltake big typhoon...I have a standard q6600 but will be changing to a e8500, in an aircooled Gigabyte Aurora case, with a Asus 8800gt [when I get it back from RA]. I'm going to change the 3 x 120mm case fans to new really silent ones.I have...
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    8800GT weird image problem

    Thanks to all who helped, I got rid of that Asus rubbish, cleaned things up, downloaded a stress test ran it and the card failed. Can't mess around anymore, a card like that should easily handle COH so have taken it back to the store...now all I have to do is wait about 4 weeks! Seems, when...
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    8800GT weird image problem

    hello . thanks for the edit wanderer27. I have tried several different things since my last post. Firstly, when I right click my screen, I don't get a 'properties', I get: View; Sort by: Refresh; Paste; Paste shortcut; NVIDIA control panel;New; Personalise. Anyway, going into NVIDIA control...
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    8800GT weird image problem

    Thanks to both of you, I will give it a go and find out what the temp is reaching and post my results:thumbsup:
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    8800GT weird image problem

    Thanks 'airhendrix13'. I'm not very good at this stuff, what do I need to be able to measure the core temp? and what is artifacting? Hope you have the time to reply, thanks.
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    8800GT weird image problem

    I have a Asus 8800GT 1gb card, now installed for about 3 months. Recently when playing COH [yes I know it's not quite up there with Crysis etc] the gaming area ofthe screen would go black and only very bright areas such as flame around flamethrowers would be visible. I ran memtest and found...