Recent content by srv656s

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    Did I ruin my Radeon 9700 Pro?

    The clock frequencies were 338 for the core and 338 for the memory. I'd let the ATI tool find the "maximums" and it went up to over 340, so I bumped it back below 340 to keep it from being too high, and it ran fine for a while. at 338 for the core and memory, it ran 3dmark03 at 5500. Usually...
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    Did I ruin my Radeon 9700 Pro?

    I was running 3dMark03 and was getting scores around 5300-5500... I was running ATITOOL, and had it find the max core and memory, and after it found the max, I backed it off a bit and then I figured it'd be good. I ran a game to see if it would run well, and it seemed to work, but all of the...
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    Will an old sound card be any faster than the onboard audio?

    So will a sound card necessarily help much over onboard audio? I noticed that on 3dMark during the sound test, I lost a few frames per second over when the same test was run without sound? Most of the documentation I've seen seems to point to the fact that having a PCI sound card will...
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    Building/Setting up a new PC...

    You rock... that's exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for... Pretty new at this, thanks- Shawn
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    Building/Setting up a new PC...

    I've done some google searches on this, and have looked around for some kind of a document or something that'll help me with doing this. I'm putting together a new PC for the first time and don't really know where to start. I've read through the motherboard manual and some online documentation...
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    What's the difference between these two processors?

    Right on, Thanks- Shawn
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    What's the difference between these two processors?

    I am going to buy a MSI K8T NEO FSR Motheboard and was trying to decide which Athlon processor to buy for it... I was thinking a 3000+ processor, however searching for one on techbargains, there appear to be two that are nearly identical...