Recent content by Penoir

I recently got a new setup running with an ASUS 890GX motherboard and a Phenom II X6 processor, but I've noticed that with the stock heatsink and fan it's running at about 42C (idle) at stock frequency and voltage. I'd like to overclock it to at least 3.5 Ghz, so I was wondering what...

Ok, great. Thanks a lot. I'll probably avoid overclocking for now until I find it's stable and can see if I even need to overclock it. Thanks for the reassurances. I can't wait to have this thing running. It's a huge upgrade from my Athlon 64 3000+.

Ok, good. Thanks. What would be the worst that would happen if it weren't enough power, or if I ended up only connecting the 4 pin without an adapter? Could it damage anything or would it just be unstable? (adapter might take another day to arrive, and i need to get this running asap to...

I just bought the components for my new system which will be using a Phenom II X6 1055T processor which is rated to draw 125 watts. I have purchased all new components for the system, but am planning on using my old power supply (an FSP Blue Storm 500w). I only plan on running the system with...

That's very good to know. I will get the Samsung instead. You've probably saved me a great deal of unnecessary trouble then. Thank you.

Ah, Thank you =). I was originally going to buy that exact set, but it was only 1333, so I was wondering if it would overclock to 1600 if I were to overclock the FSB. 16b will be nice, but I wasn't sure if the CPU would be more of a bottleneck than the RAM. What's wrong with the green drive...

Hello all, I will be ordering parts for a new computer for music composition within the next few days (I had posted a thread a few weeks ago, but I was suddenly bombarded with crap and didn't have a chance to respond in a timely manner. As I've revised my budget etc., I thought it would be...

Hello all, I'll be building my first new computer in about seven years, so I'd appreciate your expertise on current computer components, as I've quite honestly been out of the loop for a while and am still using a socket 939 Winchester Athlon 64 The rig will be used entirely for musical...

Ah, upon closer inspection those are indeed stitches. The white "bone" that I observed earlier seems to have gained a brown tint after eating a peanut butter sandwich, and also has some kind of "stringy substance" coming off of it. I didn't think he stitched it up, I guess he did. Thank you...

I just had four wisdom teeth removed on Monday, and now I seem to be able to see the bone. After the surgery, the bleeding stopped in about an hour, and I haven't had any swelling since. The pain has been subsiding everyday; I'm not even taking pain killers anymore. I do have a light general...

Your momma is so dumb that when she read the Bible she thought it was true.

I ordered a Linksys WRT54G router in february. I submitted the rebate stuff (I have copies of everything I sent in, including an invoice showing a date of 2/23/05). I received a post card from linksys refusing my rebate, stating that the purchase was outside of the qualifying period (1/10/05 -...

I'm trying to make a Windows XP installation disc that also has chipset drivers, word, norton etc., basically a bunch of stuff I would usually just put on other discs. Is it possible to make one DVD with all of that? I'm trying to write this all to a DVD-RW, and I don't have the option to not...

I've noticed when I leave the windows installation alone after entering a key, it goes ahead and skips past several steps such as creating a user and just leaves me with an administrator account. Does anyone know what other changes are there when I leave it alone, and how long does it take for...

Thanks for the input. I'll probably have to turn the fans back on in summer, but for now I think I'm going to see how this runs. I kind of feel like my system is naked with so little cooling, maybe I'll just put an intake fan in front of the hard drive to be safe.