Recent content by roten

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    My 9800Pro overheat

    At least you can overclock yours! I just returned my 1 week old 9800pro because it started displaying more and more artifacts and then just froze. No overclock, nice cool night... The shop gave me a new one no worries, they didn't even check out the dud. I hope you manage to get a stable...
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    Why has my new 9800pro died?

    I put this 9800 pro in my pc a week ago and it was running fine until today. I went to play FarCry and about 5 minutes in it started showing some artifacts which gradually got worse. I turned off the heating in my house (it's pretty cool here in west australia at the mo) and took the sides off...
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    Is there a free excel type proggy?

    I am too poor to afford Microsoft Excel so I wondered if there is anything like it that is free? Actually, like I put in topic summary, I just want a good way to record and keep track of my benchmark scores, so it doesn't have to be anywhere near as powerful as Excel. How do you guys track your...
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    Updating my Soundblaster drivers

    Hello, I know to update video drivers you need to get rid of every trace of the original driver before you install the new one, is it the same for sound card drivers? I just reformatted and reinstalled WinXP and am reloading all my drivers etc. WinXP installs default soundblaster drivers for me...
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    What is fastest cpu I can use

    Hello, Can someone please tell me the fastest cpu I can use in this motherboard? (Epox 8K3A+) It is currently XP2000+ I have tried to find the answer on Epox site and Anandtech but was unsuccessful so hopefully some kind person here can help me out. Thanks a lot.