Recent content by Fr33m4n

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    Gigabyte EX58-Extreme strange noise

    I have a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme mobo with a intel i7 920. I'll list the rest of my specs later if they prove to be relevant. Anyway, a couple of days ago I started to notice a "squeaking" noise coming from the machine. Kinda like the sound you get from cheap laptop PSU's when they are stressed...
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    High i7 temps for stock clocks?

    Check this article out: http://benchmarkreviews.com/in...1&limit=1&limitstart=3 The stock IHS has a circular bottom. Using a circular BB droplet will make the paste spread evenly in a circular fashion. But you're right, I might have used a little much. A line will result in an oval shaped...
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    High i7 temps for stock clocks?

    I recently went ahead and purchased an i7 920 and a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme mobo. I've pretty much just put it together and have not had much time to play with it yet but what I have done is run some Prime95 to check CPU temps. At everything stock, no OC and stock fan, my cpu idles at about 40C...
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    PSU for Core i7, 580W enough?

    I found eXtreme Power Suply calculator at this link http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp I inputted my my system with a little extra so that I knew I had some headroom and the calculator suggested that I need a 1207Watt PSU! Wow! I had to do it one more time in order to...
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    Faster router caused slower transfers! Help please.

    Guess I should get some new cat.6 cables then. But the online store lists them as either UTP cable or Patchcable. Which exactly is it I need? I have no clue about the difference here.
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    PSU for Core i7, 580W enough?

    Do you know exactly how much power that first system of yours is drawing? Also, how silent would you say that particular PSU is? Did you look at any other PSU's as candidates for your builds, and how did you figure out how much Wattage you wanted from your PSU?
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    Faster router caused slower transfers! Help please.

    I don't care all that much about wireless, though a friend of mine claims he gets steady 6MB/s transfers on wireless. When it comes to LAN cables all cables are store bought but I noticed that the one running from my pc to the router is labeled only cat5 and the one running from the server...
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    Faster router caused slower transfers! Help please.

    I wanted to try some speed tests on a different machine with a different cable but I have been unable to locate one yet. So I went for the next best thing. I tried some wireless transfer speed testing from a windows XP machine running a Wireless G card and sending files to my NAS. I was sitting...
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    Faster router caused slower transfers! Help please.

    I recently purchased a NAS for file storage and media streaming. It had been reviewed to reach average network transfer speeds of 25MB/s. However, I have a Gigabit LAN port on my mobo, but it was hooked up to my old D-Link DI-643M (or some such) which only had a 100Mbit max LAN transfer speed. I...
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    PSU for Core i7, 580W enough?

    I just ordered a new system online consisting of: Gigabyte GA-EX58 Extreme Corsair TWIN3X DDR3-1333 4096 MB (2 x 2048 MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 4870 Intel Core i7 920 I didn't order a PSU yet cause I was kinda hoping that my old one would still be up to the task. The one I currently have...
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    Make the leap to i7?

    Yeah, I was kinda afraid that someone would say something like that. I was pretty excited about the thought that I might get a new system before christmas but I suppose it makes more sense to wait. Especially if AMD is able to pack some punch, the response from Intel could only be a good thing...
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    Make the leap to i7?

    I need some upgrade advice. I'm currently on a rather aging system and has got myself a laptop that beats the shit out of my desktop sporting a 8800m GTX. My desktop however is as following: AMD x2 3800+ cpu @stock (whatever that is) ASUS A8N-E mobo 4x512 mb DDR ram Nvidia 7800 GT 256mb...
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    [FIXED]Why are my codecs working?!?

    EDIT: Nevermind, app settings that were messing with my setup. All fixed now. ---------- Yup, you read that title correctly. I want to know why I'm still able to perfectly fine play back ANY media file on my system when I've spent the last couple of hours trying to uninstall anything even...