Recent content by Machine350

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    New XBOX 360 Study Released

    I saw this article on Gamespot, thought it was interesting. I had a feeling that the 54% reported failure rate was a little skewed. According to this article, Jasper Xbox's have a failure rate of less than 4%. I'll be picking up one of those new Jasper Elites tomorrow. They are supposed to...
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    360 Price Cut Officially Official

    I went looking for that exactly today. Went to 2 Best Buys and a Target, no luck. The employee at Best Buy said they sold all those when they first opened this morning.
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    Are the new Xbox 360 Elites Jasper?

    Yeah, I was at Best Buy today. I checked one of the Elites in the new, white packaging, it was a Jasper. You do have to tear the cardboard just a little bit, but just push it back, no one will know.
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    Got roped into helping someone else.

    I agree. Backup everything she wants to keep before doing anything. Sounds like a nasty virus, which, usually in my experience, can only be totally eliminated by reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling and/or re-imaging. Those restoration CDs are going to be pretty important.
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    Monitor disappointment

    Lanyon, welcome to the forums. I'm really surprised no one mentioned this before, but "300" is SUPPOSED to look grainy. It was made to look that way on purpose. If anyone here has ever watched it on bluray on a large TV, it looks like CRAP. Try watching something like "Finding Nemo" or...
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    E8500 E0 @ 4.17Ghz and 1.29v good for 24/7?

    I don't. I've had a system pass after 2 hours of OCCT and then crash as soon as I fire up Prime95. I'm still an old school fan of letting Prime95 run overnight before I'm satisfied.
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    Vcore & Prime95

    My experience has been that sometimes I'll get an error in prime95 after about 10 hours. It's kind of weird, but that's happened more than once. So for me, I don't feel my system is stable unless it's stressed 24 hours, but then again, I'm kind of OCD.
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    trouble overclocking my q6600

    That ram is rated to run as high as 500mhz. 1:1 is what you want, so that's good. Just make sure to watch your temps using something like Coretemp or HWMonitor since you're raising the voltage. 71c is the threshold for that cpu.
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    Video card fan runs at 100% after Vista resumes from sleep

    I'm curious about this too. I'm running the same setup and I've never been able to get it to come out of sleep mode and not be screwy. I don't get it because XP's sleep mode worked just fine. So far though, that's my only complaint against Vista.
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    Weird Crysis crash?

    Have rivatuner record your video card temps in the background. Sounds like your card might be overheating. Also, make sure you've installed the latest patches. Crysis would crash on me all the time until I patched it.
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    trouble overclocking my q6600

    You can go up to 1.5 vcore on that thing. Give it a little more juice.
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    Vcore & Prime95

    Like DSF said, instability can cause some pretty nasty problems. I'd let prime95 run for 24 hours to really know you're stable. As long as your reported vcore isn't exceeding the chip maker's specs, you don't have to worry too much about damaging the chip.
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    faulty temperature sensor?

    You're just being a worry wart. I have the exact same cpu also running at 3.8 at about that same vcore and my temps are around 43 idle and get up to about 55 under full load using a zalman cnps 9500 cooler.
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    Do I need to re-seat my heatsink/fan

    Those temps aren't bad. However, I agree with everyone here that you should redo the mount. It won't hurt anything and may drop your temps a few degrees.
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    e8400 thermal grease

    Just FYI, you might be able to get a few degrees cooler if you used Arctic Silver 5. Just scrape off the thermal paste that's on there, clean the heatsink with isopropyl alcohol, and follow Arctic Silver's instructions (website) for applying it to the cpu. Good luck with the build!