Recent content by jon754

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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    one of the pixels on my L227wtg seems to have gotten stuck on green on the far right side of the screen. is there a way to reset it or something? that sucks so bad, this monitor has been almost perfect until now. :| edit: ran udpixel for an hour and it unstuck for a few seconds but went back...
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    hd4850

    well i switched to 8.6 hotfix drivers and my games load and the artifacting is gone but now i'm getting a problem with my screen going black and my monitor has an "out of range" message come up. wtf? i love the perfomance of this card but the drivers simply suck.
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    hd4850

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    hd4850

    what drivers should i be using with this card? i have 8.7 now and they're pretty unstable it seems. freaking 3dmark03 freezes on startup, 3dmark06 has crazy artifacting, and a lot of my games won't even start up. i am using the fan fix (45 percent) and i idle at 42C and load at 55C so it's not...
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    hsf

    what about this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835233001
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    hsf

    the arctic cooling freezer 7 pro should fit i think. how does it compare to some of the 92mm xigmatek coolers? i don't have a frys in my area.
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    Putting a PCI exhaust fan next to my 4850 lowered Idle from 71 to 63.

    do they have those for pci-e x1?
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    hsf

    it's an atx mid tower case. i have an 80 mm hsf mounted now and i have about half an inch between that and my power supply. the motherboard i'm using now.... http://www.newegg.com/product/...x?Item=N82E16813150045 the motherboard i will be using...
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    hsf

    what's a decently quiet socket 775 cooler for under 25 dollars? going to be used with a e7200 for overclocking. oh and it can't be really huge because my case isn't that all that big. thanks.
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    quick question

    so with pc6400 ram i would be limited to 3.8 ghz then?
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    quick question

    can someone please explain fsb ratios and stuff? aren't the multipliers locked on the newer processors?
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    quick question

    i thought intel was supposed to be having price drops on the 20th of july? the e7200 is supposed to go down to 110 but i still see it listed at 125-130. what about ram? pc8500 ram is like twice as much as pc6400.
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    quick question

    i've not gotten a processor yet. right now i'm using an athlon xp-m and a 9800 pro so yea i need to upgrade pretty bad lol. for my upgrade all i've gotten so far is a motherboard (a gigabyte ep45 ds3l). i'm planning to overclock and i know the average e2180 oc is 3-3.2 ghz so that's why i put...
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    quick question

    what about the e7200? it has 3mb of l2 cache instead of 1 like the e2180. would i have to buy faster ram to keep up with the higher fsb of the e7200? also what's a good quiet hsf for under 25 dollars?
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    quick question

    how much will an e2180 oc'ed to 3.0-3.2 ghz bottleneck an ati 4850 in games? or a 4870? thanks.