Recent content by billyc

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    How does speedfan work exactly?

    For me, it works very well. There still is some bugs for some chip sets. Mine doesn't report all voltages correctly. Your best bet would be to go to speedfans site here and ask your detailed questions to Alfredo, the author.
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    Q6600 OC question

    A little background. My build is for gaming since that is the most tasking app I use. Current system: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 rev 2 CPU - E4300 @ 3MHz Mem - 2x1 meg Kingston ddr2 667 GPU - 7900GS Case - P180 Cooling - Freezer 7 Pro OS - XP home 32bit PSU - gamexstream 600w In the...
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    Looking for Headphones

    I like my Sennheiser HD-555 Audiophile Headphones alot and they have a great deal at Newegg right now.
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    Most Quiet Hard Drive

    Can't hear my Seagate barricuda 7200.10 320GB.
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    What are the different ways you guys back up your data?

    I have 4 partions. Weekly backup to 2nd HD. Monthly image backup of XP and file backup of other 3 all on DVD using Nero Backitup.
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    Where can I get a program that will take 100% of the cpu?

    Intel Thermal Analysis Tool. No software will generate a higher CPU usage or create a higher temp than this. TAT
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    AHCI vs IDE

    I have 2 Seagate 320gb 7200.10 sata II drives on a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 ver 02. I have them attached to the Intel controller and are currently running w/IDE. I've seen several discussions on the net where one could convert to AHCI mode wo/ reloading xp. Does anyone have any experience with this...
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    The newest Core Temp 0.95 now shows Tjunction (I think this is really called Tjmax) as 100c instead of 85c and now reports Tcore temps and not Tcase, also displays temps in tray which is nice. These temps now match Speedfan, which in my case, the core temps are modified by +15c. My rig shows TAT...
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    Just found this reference in another forum. Perhaps there is more to the TAT question yet to be revealed. Check the following forum Text
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    Here's some info that should be telling me something, but I'm not sure what. Using SpeedFan and TAT, the temp difference is 18c between cpu and tat. Running Tat torture test, the difference is 13c and running Orthos, the difference is 9c. Is there some revelation here? or is this further doc...
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    Yea, can't argue that point. It seems we only have so many thermometers to use. Maybe the best monitor would be the mb software, it's at least as right as the bios.
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    Those idle core temps look suspicious. What is your ambient? You can't have temps lower than your ambient which those core temps show around 70F. Have you used any other tool to compare? CoreTemp or Eaytune5? My system temp is flat also, but around 40c. My idle is around 28c which is around...
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    My last 10 min TAT test w/speedfan 4.32 showed cpu 55c, core 0 53c and core 1 54c. The thing is, the core temps are supposed to be Tjunction temps ~+15c from cpu, Tcase, temp. SF 4.32 has as number of problems w/ E4300. The core temps are wrong, my +12v is reported as 1.34v, vcore is wrong and...
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    E4300, DS3 OC temps question

    New to this forum, completed my first build and first oc, specs in my sig. I'm running in an ambient of around 29c, I have 2 Seagate 320gig sata2 drives, and a 7900gs gpu oc'd. I'm also using the antec freezer 7 pro cpu cooler. I have DDR2 voltage at +.1 (1.9v) and vcore is 1 notch belos...