Recent content by Bobul Head

I wasn't planning on SLIing - I can't afford that... I was just going to try fiddling with OCing my system a little bit and wondering whether I needed to bother with the proc or just the GPU. Guess you guys answered my question. I didn't realize the CPUs were that far ahead of the vidcards.

For certain? So will OCing the GPU shift the bottleneck to the CPU or would I have to SLI to bottleneck the proc?

System Specs: Abit KN8 mobo AMD 4000+ San Diego 2 GB Corsair XMS 2-3-3-6 Evga 7800GTX Everything is stock settings atm, so which is gonna bottleneck me, the GPU or CPU?

Before you do anything drastic, you maybe wanna try pulling the vidcard out, blowing everything out with compressed air and reseating and then try. I had a problem very similar to what you are describing and it turned out to be one little clot of dust in the wrong spot. At least that's what I...

I had the problem with the pagefile, then I disabled it to see if it was the problem (one of the first things I tried.) And actually, now that I've wiped and reinstalled Windows, when I ran my tests this last time it would've been with a Windows managed pagefile. Neither seems to make any...

I can change the power supply more easily than the mobo of course, but it was part of the case and I can't RMA the PSU without the case..and that's just a pain in the butt. So I'm also thinking about buying a PSU and swapping it in to see if it fixes the problem. I can always return it if it...

System specs are: Abit KN8 mobo AMD 4000+ San Diego Nvidia 7800GTX 2GB Corsair XMS Audigy 2 ZS I've been monitoring temps on everything and nothing is getting hot. I also wiped my hard drive this afternoon and reinstalled just windows, fresh drivers for everything, and 3dmark05. I...

I built a gaming system in mid-December and it ran with no problems until a couple weeks to a month ago (not sure when it started really.) I was playing City of Villains and noticed that I was experiencing a singnificant drop in framerates after 15 mins of play or so. This led me to running a...