Recent content by Jazzatola

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    System Upgrade Advice

    Hi! I'm overhauling my current system and would like some advice on my choices. I use the machine for gaming and like to get the best gfx I can but at the moment I'm only really playing World of Warcraft. System build questionnaire: 1. General gaming, mostly WoW. 2. More concerned with...
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    Possible PSU Problem?

    I'm in the UK so no newegg for me! Thanks though. I want to get this sorted before Spore comes out on Friday so I actually ordered from Amazon.co.uk. I paid way over the odds for it but it's guranteed to be delivered this evening when I get home from work.
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    Possible PSU Problem?

    I've realised my problem. I used an online psu calculator and it came out with a total of 370W for my system. What I didn't understand at the time is that this is an estimate of its idle power consumption. I can see from the reviews of the GTX 260 that the card can easily consume another 100W at...
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    Possible PSU Problem?

    I've recently upgraded my machine and am experiencing display failures when gaming. I built the machine a couple of years ago and am running an Antec NeoHE 500W psu. Until recently I was running a Q6600 cpu with 2Gb RAM and an stock EVGA 8800GTX. I've played plenty of games (Crysis, COH...
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    SLi Only Graphics Glitch

    Hmm, it happened in WoW as well and was not cured by a reboot so I'm pretty sure its hardware related.
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    SLi Only Graphics Glitch

    I'm glad you mentioned the motherboard. I built the machine last year with an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe and was running with SLi with no problems. Then, earlier this year, I managed to fry my bios and ended up getting a replacement board. I installed the replacement but had problems with the SATA...
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    SLi Only Graphics Glitch

    I was playing HL2 for a while last night and afterwards opened up the nVida control panel to change a few settings. I'm running two eVGA 7900GTX cards but I noticed that in the control panel SLi mode was switched off. I don't remember turning it off myself so I just switched it back on. Then...
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    Dead Motherboard?

    Well, I'm in the UK and Asus don't provide that service here. I have contacted www.BadFlash.com though and have ordered a new chip. Fingers crossed!
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    Dead Motherboard?

    I just updated the bios on my A8N32-SLI Deluxe from version 1009 to the latest, 1303. I used the Asus updater utility from within XP and the new bios was copied and verified without any trouble. After rebooting, the computer won't even post. The green light on the motherboard comes on, the...
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    any news on the 2407?

    Head over to the Widescreen Gaming Forum, there's a long thread there.
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    Are hardware changes allowed pre XP activation?

    I'm about to build a new system and to make things as easy as possible I plan to put it together bit by bit - get things running with the minimal set of components and then add each extra component in turn to make troubleshooting any issues that much easier. So at first it'll just be a mobo...
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    any news on the 2407?

    So most reports from Australia and Japan where the monitor is now on sale say that there are significant problems with the 2407 such as blurred text and colour banding. I've heard that it's been delayed for another 3-4 weeks too so I ended up going for the 2405 instead.
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    Best Price UK 7900GT?

    Thats what I did. I couldn't find them in stock in the UK, so I bought my evga 7900 GTX cards from the States on eBay. Didn't cost any more than the UK prices even including shipping.
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    3M Precise Mousing Surface - mouse pad

    Another thumbs up from me. The surface is great and they grip the table really well too so don't slide about when things get a bit hectic. If I had one complaint it would be that they could be a bit bigger.
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    Logitech G15 keyboard

    You'll be lucky to find one of these in the UK right now. Hopefully Logitech are addressing the paint problem and will have a new revision available shortly.