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To add a little more info, I've made sure everything is connected properly twice, all power to motherboard etc. Changed PSU's twice, even tried with a brand new XFX 80+ SLI 650WATT. Still does the same thing. His PC works perfectly with either his 8800GT or a spare ATI 6570 I had lying around...

After building a PC for a friends son last week, everything was fine for about five days when suddenly the display turned off and he got a "sync out of range" error. After rebooting, you see the POST screen and RAM count etc, then the screen cuts off and "sync out of range" appears again...

Yes it works but you have to physically hold the jack in, as soon as you let go it falls out because the plastic around the edge has broken away.

Hi, My mother accidentally pulled her headphones out of her laptop with some force, and the plastic circlet which holds the jack has snapped. Consequently, the jack no longer grips into the stereo out port and just falls out. The only other port on the laptop is a microphone port. So is it...

From what I can tell, the 670GTX is slightly faster than a 760GTX and here in the UK it's about £25 cheaper too! I am 95% sure that I'll be getting the 670GTX Zotac next week, because although I do prefer ATI(AMD) as a rule, the 7950 seems a little slower at stock and I don't think the i5...

Should be great fun! I wonder if the advancement of drivers through the years have treated the mighty 2900XT's well or not. Specs to drool for, driver performance to make your toes curl. Let us know how it works out!!

Was just my 2 cents. I'm currently running a stock e8400 at 3.0ghz and for it's age, even at stock, it still gets things done (at least, what I require). But I've had numerous cards in this PC from (wait for it) .. an X1950XTX, 4770, 6870 and lately a 5970. If the OP does have a super fast Q9xx...

I guess spending $999 on any PC graphics card at the minute is silly, considering you have been, and will be playing console ports 90% of the time. Next week I'm buying either a GTX670 or a 7950 for around £160 and maybe a year after the next gen consoles have been around, I'll pick up a card...

Putting a 760 or 770 GTX in a C2D/C2Q machine is like installing 16GB DDR3 and running Windows 98se. Presuming you have indeed a C2D or C2Q in that PC, and coming from an 8800 GT or Ultra, i'd say go for something like a 650GTX or 7790 AMD. Both of those cards will be bottlenecked, unless you...

Phys-x is for me like AA. Although I have never owned a recent Nvidia card, if I could turn on better physics in a game for ... 5% performance hit, and I was still clearing 60/75fps, then sure why not. But for AMD users getting the 30%+ hit, no chance! Regards to AA also, back in the mid 2000's...

Age was most probably a big factor, but also the games were far better. We saw advances every month for many, many years. Everything was exciting and games were being made by game loving geeks who could have been doctors / lawyers but chose TO MAKE GAMES instead.

It was such an awe inspiring game, both visually at atmospherically. But it did take it's toll on the hardware. You really did need a 3Ghz P4 or any Athlon 64 with a top end card to get the most out of it. I remember reading a GIANT F.A.Q which listed hundreds of tweaks you could add to the...

1. Upgrading from my Matrox Mystique (without bilinear filtering capability) to a Maxi Gamer 3DFX 4MB, and running Motoracer, Tomb Raider 1 and GL-Quake with 30+ FPS max details! 2. Going from a Geforce 2 MX to a Geforce 3Ti 500. That card ran everything at max for two years in 32bit colour...

Well I presume you're keeping Windows XP on that machine, and not installing Windows 7/8... in which case it's kinda pointless upgrading the card to anything beyond DirectX 9 capability. If I remember the Pentium D series was basically 2 Pentium 4's on the same die, instead of true dual core...

See now I'm confused. I had a broken 5970 which a customer brought into the shop and ended up replacing with a new card. I took the 5970 home, baked it, and then benched it on a friends PC. My friend has had a Zotac 570 AMP edition for 2 years. The 5970 BLEW HIS 570 AMP away. His words. In some...