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Thanks for the link. I ran both hwinfo64 and hwmonitor. Both are close to what I get in bios. With the +12v, +5v, and +3.3v all within acceptable ranges. hwinfo64 does show two readings for the +3.3v however? And neither have all of the readings shown in speedfan however. Maybe they don't...

Yeah. The numbers on the far right are the ones I'm seeing in bios. Not sure why the other ones are so out of whack, As for the -128C. I had done a google search and apparently there's a bug with speedfan that tries to read a sensor that doesn't exist, and gives a false high or low reading on...

I've been having some problems with my computer recently (mostly when gaming) with Artifacts, freezing, etc.. I figured the problem was the video card because it's been over heating with the gpu fan reaching 100% occasionally. Temps have been hovering around 85c. Peaking at 90c under load...

I have an older system running DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) with a Phenom II x4 940 I was running 4gb (2x2) at 1066 but recently installed two more sticks, for a total of 8gb (4x2). Since my motherboard (here) states it wont run 4 sticks at 1066 So I went down to 800mhz. (although I did test 1066...

Ok, appreciate the advice all. I went ahead and ordered 4 more gigs of ram. Found some for $20 bucks off ebay. I'll hold off on the 950 and will keep a look out for the 1050 or 1050 ti. Thanks again.

I know the gtx 950 is a generation behind the current crop of cards, and may soon be two gens behind, but I have a 10 year old "gaming" system in serious need of an overhaul. (I'm running a gtx 260, phenom x4 940 (at 3.4 and could probably do 3.6 ). 4 gigs of ram, and 120gb ssd.) Unfortunately...

lol this was great. Doubles as a window fan in the summer.

Thanks. Any idea when the 400 chipset boards are expected out? I think I will go with a 350 or wait for a 400 series board with the 2400G. Along with DDR4-3000. I'm trying to keep my budget around $400. That will leave me some room for a discrete video card in the future IF prices drop. As for...

My current desktop is running on fumes (4gigs ddr2, gtx 260, Phenom II x4 940, 64 gig ssd) and is in desperate need of upgrades. Since I'm trying to keep the price down, the 2200G looks like a good alternative, at least to hold me over until video card prices come back down to earth. I can...

Anyone watching the coverage on ABC? What's up with all their anchors looking at the eclipse without glasses?

it's an older nforce chipset, 980a sli. I have tried the latest drivers I could find for win7, 8, 8.1, that were available, unfortunately none of them allowed windows to detect the drive in raid mode. Tried the windows 7 cd and it showed right up. Guess I'll try going back to windows 7 for now...

I upgraded to windows 10 back during the free upgrade period but I'm just now getting around to doing a clean install. The problem is, windows 10 will not detect my raid array during the installation process. Apparently Nvida dropped windows 10 support for my motherboard and have not released...

Thanks for the detailed reply! I'll give Macrium a try. Your help is appreciated.

There was a System restore partition on the hard-drive of my PC, but I've since upgraded to an SSD so the recovery partition was removed. What I want to do is get everything installed on the PC that I need... Drivers, Updates, Win7, Office, etc....to have a working system. I then want to...

Thanks for the help all. Yeah. I was finding conflicting information online about whether this CPU supported am3 or not. Since I'd have to upgrade the motherboard anyway, I will probably hold off on upgrading the mobo/cpu for now. I will try to find some cheap ddr2 on ebay. fralexandr. I did...