Recent content by Fuzzy7

For me, it was extremely obvious; it drowned out everything else. I suspected that too. But then I tried a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610, which is also a rebadged Seasonic (though with an 80mm fan), and didn't get the tone. :confused: The PSUs that gave me the tone weren't modular. Could...

Well, it's only necessary with ECC memory. Multiple sticks of non-ECC memory aren't a problem. Still, updating the BIOS is quite painless if you use the BIOS's built-in EZ Flash utility. It accepts USB flash drives, so you don't even need a floppy. The audio issue, OTOH, set me out of...

(found this thread while googling for P5E WS audio issues) The problem -- an odd interaction between the P5E WS and certain PSUs, causing the onboard audio to emit a constant tone -- is very real. At first I thought I simply had a bad PSU (a Seasonic 550W), but when I RMA'ed that PSU and got...

I actually don't plan to overclock (gasp!). No really, aren't Core 2 Duos fast enough as it is? My CPU actually does sit idle most of the time; I don't play games 24/7. And it's not just about saving power; a lower wattage CPU produces less heat, thus requiring less fan power to cool...

To follow up my own thread: On 2/27 I placed an order for an E6400 after seeing a customer review where someone claimed they received an L2 stepping E6400 on 2/21. I figured if that person received theirs on 2/21, then surely by 2/27 the old stock must have been long gone. Well, guess what...

I tried asking them directly, but the rep couldn't tell me what revision they were shipping. Can anyone who has purchased a Core 2 Duo E6400 from Newegg.com recently (within the past few weeks or so) tell me whether it was the newer L2 stepping (SL9T9) or the older B2 stepping (SL9S9)? I...

You too, huh? Try uninstalling the NVIDIA IDE driver. That solved the problem for me.