Recent content by SX2012

Did some more research. The GPU fan has 4 pins. 4 pin fans have the power management (pwm) signal. Perhaps something in the fan itself broke... Not too sure though but since the video card works fine otherwise...maybe i should just put my own fan.

I am starting to think it has a major problem myself. I dont remember this thing at full blast when the computer is turned on. I think the auto was supposed to work even before windows boots. Perhaps a sensor burned out and there is a fail-safe to just go max RPM?

It just wont work.......

I was playing mechwarrior online and the videocard fan kicked into full blast. It sounds very annoying at 100%. I do not overclock my system in any way. I tried doing a full power down and the problem persists even during the bootup. In the Catalyst Control Center the manual fan control is...

I am wondering how you know it supports the phenom II because gigabytes site doesnt mention anything about the phenom 2 on the 790FX DS5. which bios version has the phenom II support???

I got your snappy right here

Take out the RAM, see if it turns off by itself still, see if you get the correct beep for no memory If it still turns off by itself its not the RAM http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm#05

you can pull off the socket fixture by unscrewing it, then file or grind down the places where its bottoming out so the heatsink will fit, also put the ram in the furthest slots if its touching or really close. You shouldnt have to do this but if your desperate this could work.

I think AMD will pull out of its nose dive but it will never be 2005 again. Well, you never know :D

anyways, Barcelonas and Phenoms have the bug, so either AMD tried to hide the whole thing because they fabbed 500,000 chips and realized they were all possibly scrap, or they were truely oblivious of the bug until the last minute when they realized that couldnt make it stable past 2.4 GHz

Actually the Phenom 9500 is 2.2 GHz

I read somewhere that the problem stems from a race condition where two cpu's try to access the L2 and L3 cache at the same time and store the information in reverse order in the L3 cache but correctly in the L2 cache. If the L2 cache for that particular bit of information is purged from the...

Its not the only power from the wall that matters! (Pick whatever numbers you want)If your whole system uses 300 watts(hypothetically) under load with the CPU overclocked, and 210 when not overclocking the CPU. That means that the CPU is increasing your TOTAL draw by 30 percent like you said...

Did you ever find out how much more percent power your CPU uses? Just the CPU

Im thinking about finally upgrading. Should I get the system builder or the Retail Box? Should I install 32 or 64 bit.(I mostly play games and encode video) I know most software doesnt benifit from 64 bit but will 64 bit hurt anything? Or should I keep using XP for a while longer...