Recent content by tarentinos

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    An ongoing saga of RMA's, videocards, and fractals

    Here are the results from ATItool It seemed to peak at 57C. You can look for yourself though on the picture.
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    An ongoing saga of RMA's, videocards, and fractals

    Artifacts! Ah, I knew there was a word but that's all I could think of. Power supply is a Thermaltake TR2-430W. Not sure where to find the 12v amps. I THINK it's this one: http://www.thermaltake.com/pro...er/w006970/w006970.asp
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    An ongoing saga of RMA's, videocards, and fractals

    I bought a new video card. Here is the Newegg Link. Upon receiving said video card, I installed it in my computer and had issues which resulted in "fractals" (I guess that's what these are called): Portal Image 1 Company of Heroes Image 2 I tried Omega drivers and ATI drivers. When...
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    Need a System Quickly

    How about this: Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811129155 Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813157081 Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103562
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    Need a System Quickly

    This is my system: Barton 2500+ BFG 6800 OC w/ NV Silencer 1GB DDR400 RAM 250GB SATA 3.0GB 250GB HD NEC DVD Drive The motherboard died. I need a computer for college NOW and I have $400. I have tried going 939 dual core ULI to keep my graphics card... AM2 single core... there are simply...
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    New System

    Eh... I'm not sure what a capacitor looks like. I build computers but I'm not THAT knowledgable ( : The Pentium D solution sounds pretty good. Hum.
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    New System

    Okay, this is a strange story but here goes: My computer was struck by lightning. The ethernet and audio went out but everything else was fine for awhile. Here are the specs: Barton 2500+ Asus A7N8X BFG Geforce 6800OC 1 GB Ram (184 pin) 60GB HD CDRW Drive Antec Solution Case w/ 300W...
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    Free Guild Wars Global Free-For-All PvP Weekend Event

    Graphics: Guild Wars Interface/features: Guild Wars Gameplay/controls: Guild Wars Soundtrack: Guild Wars Fun Factor: Guild Wars Find a friendly Guild. Get addicted.
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    How to keep up on PC news/reviews? Shops?

    for price search check out www.pricewatch.com
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    Agh.... hosting woes.... help!

    It's part of payloadz.com. They provide a link to a download location after payment has been received through paypal. The ASP would need to be modified SERVER SIDE though, correct?
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    Agh.... hosting woes.... help!

    My problem is that when my users are sent to a page that provides a link to my PDF ebook, they are unable to use "Save Target As..." in order to save the file to their hard drive. It only pops up a prompt to save "get.asp." Left-clicking works, but the service that I use for customers to...
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    What would you do to my system with $200?

    Right now my PC is LOUD due mostly to my ti4200, so I'm going to sell it for $35-40 and buy either a 9800 pro with a silencer or a 6600gt. The 6600 gt will need a silencer as well (or so I gather) but this makes the price difference nearly $100. I was planning on buying some PQI 3200 RAM to...
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    WHY is my CPU running so HOT?!

    The room temperature is 73-71 degrees. Nothing abnormal. Case is 27C, Socket 36C, Diode 45C. I recently played City of Heroes for about an hour and the temperature under load occasionally hit 61C. I found that the source of all of my noise is my ti4200 fan. It's SO LOUD! I'm going to be...
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    WHY is my CPU running so HOT?!

    Thanks... step #4 IS my problem I believe. When I have been mounting my heatsink I've usually placed the heatsink at an angle in order to mount it on one side and then proceeded to the next side. EDIT: I'm going to try this tomorrow as it is early morning here (zzzz)
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    WHY is my CPU running so HOT?!

    The 76C was with the stock, and it was a spike. I got out of City of Heroes because I noticed it shoot up so fast. I have my Speeze installed right now with two 80mm case fans... it's as loud as a vaccuum cleaner but I'm idling between 39-44C. When playing games my high is about 58C which is...