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I know the higher quality more expensive rams have better CAS latencies and come with heat spreaders and all that jaz but I'm wondering if there is a significant difference in performance. I'm currently doing a decent OC with cheap RAM and the RAM isn't the limiting factor. How high do you have...

System when i first got it with Stock cooling Speed (Ghz):3.4ghz Socket:lga 775 Idle Temp(C):60 Max Temp(C):80 Mobo Idle Temp(C):33 Mobo Max Temp(C):35 Cooling Solution:Stock Cooling Case:Antec lanboy No of Case Fans: 2 (front blowing in, back blowing out) Mobo:Abit aa8 DuraMax...

ok i finally got a thermalright xp-90 and my cpu temperature is down to about 48 idle and 62 under full load which i think is acceptable well just wanted to let you guys know... xp-90 is friggen huge it's awsome thermalright retention brackets are a pain to install (it says "EASE OF...

hmm i was just looking at the thermalright retention bracket which i think might be kinda like that zalman one so would i be able to buy http://www.coolerguys.com/840556031215.html (bracket) and this http://www.coolerguys.com/840556031185.html (xp-120) and put them together to work on my system?

does anybody have any experience with any of these lga 775 heat sinks? http://www.coolerguys.com/sockettlga775.html my prescott is out of control hot 60 degrees idle 80 degrees under full load with stock cooling not overclocked everything is installed correctly but my motherboard could...

well i was about to return my p4 prescott for an athlon 64 or return it in exchange the same thing... but i really don't want to go through the hassel of getting a new cpu and motherboard and i think it is not a defective cpu and that any prescott would run that hot in my system i have concluded...

i've gone through the whole heat sink thing already and i even went out and purchased new silver thermal paste and i'm 100% sure the heat sink is installed correctly ok i guess i don't know where i got that 4k i checked again and i guess my 1.5 is about where i should be so i guess i'm fine...

yes i installed the chipset drivers first thing my system temperature is 33 degrees which i think is an acceptable temperature i have two case fans one in front blowing air in one in back blowing air out everything in there is nice and cool except the cpu i just ran 3dMark05 and i got a...

most toolbars are BHO's(IE plugins) it is probably a new one that isn't yet recognized by those programs run hijackthis http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/hijackthis.zip and look under the 03 and 016 areas for something with either a very random name or similar to the toolbar's name ******WARNING BE...

*bump* no viruses no spyware i'm pretty sure it is a hardware problem... it isn't causing shutdowns or errors just running slowly and sluggishly and really shouldn't be with what i have in it... any suggestions anyone?

do you perhaps have a pop-up blocker enabled? the new topic and the help button both open new windows i can't really give you the link to new topic because it is a javascript just try to disable your pop-up blocker or put anandtech.com on the safe list ok i'm kinda familiar with HiJackThis...

check to make sure the IDE cable isn't reversed(most likely cause this has happened to me before) make sure the red stripe is on the same side as it is on the master if the master is working properly check your jumper settings in CMOS setup>standard setup make sure IDE0 slave is set to auto

you have just a single SATA hard drive?

i just got a new system here are the specs abit aa8 duramax motherboard 3.4ghz prescott two 512 ddr2 in dual channel ati radeon x600xt 256mb two SATA harddrives in raid-0 have a clean install of windows and sp2 and updated drivers for everything was having freeze-ups in call of duty so...

anybody have any suggestions for lga 775 fans?