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    Building Friend's Gaming Rig - Need full x16/x16 PCI-E 2.0 slots + Sandy Bridge

    What choices are there? I know, I know, "what's your price range?" Current rig I've got lined up for him is £1387 after VAT+delivery. He says too expensive. This is what I had lined up: At first I couldn't find any mobo that does x16/x16 that wasn't in the super high end price range...
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    i7 920. What temps should I expect on stock cooling?

    I've been getting as high as 60 degrees C at 2.66Ghz but its gone down to 45-50 lately. Is this bad?
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    Suspected Maxtor 500gb SATAII drive failure

    Before I send my drive off to Scan (www.scan.co.uk) to have them take a look at my drive I want to ask you guys if there is anything I can do myself to have it working again and to check whether it really is the drive that's at fault. Spec in sig. I bought my system back in December...
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    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS

    Corsair xms 1600mhz 3gb - 3 sticks installed, only 2gb showing in BIOS, only noticed it recently. Yes, they are seated in the slots properly. Any suggestions what the problem is?
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    No image displayed post-powerON - Gigabyte HD4870 1gb

    I'm sitting playing Battlefield 2 the other day and all of a sudden my screen goes blank. I hear sound coming out still. My computer is still on. Must be the graphics card I think to myself. But it might not be in light of this: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2035552 So I...
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    Failure to POST - Gigabyte EX58-UD5

    My specs are in my sig. Had my computer about a year now. Lately I been having trouble. Sometimes when I get a power cut and turn the computer on it fails to post. It doesn't do the memory test and if you leave it there it just restarts itself over and over. The (usb microsoft reclusa)...
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    Recurring issue with 4870

    Hi guys Today I rather belatedly got my copy of both Bioshock and Oblivion. In both games I have an issue with my graphics. Both games run super smoothly on the absolute highest settings and resolution. HOWEVER, when you walk around in dark areas, red stars appear a lot. This is much more a...
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    More FPS in CRYSIS

    OK I bought my PC back in December, I think its the nuts, I love it. Anyway when I bought it I was led to believe it would probably be able to get 30fps minimum on Crysis w/ settings maxed out. I run it in 1680x1050, Enthusiast settings, vsync, 4x AA. It runs at 20fps steady, which is...
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    Tweaking Fans and Overclocking

    OK about five minutes ago I discvered the wonders of Catalyst Control Centre and played with the fans because I was not happy that the default temp was like 60 degrees. So I put the fan speed up to 60 and WOW its loud? Then using Auto Tune, the tuner automatically sets itself to MAXIMUM...
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    Couple of issues with my Gigabyte 4870 1gb

    When I first got my card I had some trouble making the resolution optimal for my screen. I have a Samsung 2032mw, which runs optimally at 1680x1050 @ 60hz. However my display settings are being somewhat fickle. I have managed to get 1680x1050 to show up a couple of times by editing the registry...
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    Play.com and the Gigabyte 4870 "512mb". HA!

    Thursday last week I ordered a Gigabyte 4870 512mb graphics card from Play.com Here. It cost me £169 with free delivery - a bargain even for the 512mb version, and I received it today, Monday. Nice. Funny how they've upped it to £250 now. I opened up the packaging, looked at the...
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    Gigabyte EX58 UD5

    I bought this motherboard back in december as the basis for my new core i7 setup and I want to say that its great and I highly recommend it. I was originally going to buy the Asus Rampage Extreme II but now I am glad I didn't. At the time it was one of the more cheaper ones but based on reviews...
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    Dungeon Keeper 3

    Anyone remember Dungeon Keeper? Great game, and so was the sequel. But Bullfrog went under, and although it was planned it never came to fruition, Dungeon Keeper 3 died with Bullfrog. I have read many cries for this game to be made however, simply typing Dungeon Keeper 3 in Google shows you...
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    So let me get this straight

    I read a couple of times on various forums and articles that some of the latest cards, eg 4870X2, is not worth it if you are not running resolutions above 1680x1050 because it will tend to run about the same (eg in crysis at max settings in terms of fps at that resolution and lower) as a card...
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    "Enable SLI" not showing in Vista 64

    Hello Current setup: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Core i7 920 (oh wow... this thing is amazing!!!!!!) @2.67ghz Corsair 3x1gb XMS DDR3 1600mhz @ 9-9-9-24 2x BFG 256mb 7800GTX OC I hoped that with a change of hardware this issue would be gone. Alas not! I was running a 2 year old DFI Lanparty...
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    Who would win out of Rampage Extreme II vs P6T6 WS Revolution?

    Soon I am gonna get the bestest x58 motherboard and I am really torn between the two aforementioned boards. The key differences I feel are these: P6T6 WS Revolution supports the full three 16x PCI Express lanes... Rampage Extreme II is said to be an overclocking BEAST... So it comes...
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    SLI no worky on Vista 64

    Vista 64 refuses to acknowledge that I could do SLI with my two 7800GTX's in there. Yes I've tried everything, I think! DFI Lanparty SLI-DR Expert, so in BIOS I have 8x-8x-_-x and "Dual 6600 Support" turned off (have tried with that on btw). Got latest forceware. Uninstalled, reinstalled, safe...
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    nForce4

    I have a DFI Lanparty SLI-DR Expert mobo and I'm wondering whether I can stick a couple of the latest nVidia cards in there, swap out my SLI 7800GTX's. These newer cards all do DirectX 10, but question is, does my chipset support that? I'm running Vista64 btw.
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    Is 6gb's trip-chan worth it?

    I do just fine with 2gb's of DDR 400 in my current computer, back in the day (two years ago), I had it rammed down my neck that "you won't need more than 2gb, hardly any applications use more than that". But now I'm getting an x58 chipset mobo, I know that it has triple channel memory, some of...
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    1600Mh/1800Mhz/2000mhz - DDR3

    I'm looking at getting a Asus Rampage Extreme II and some of these x58 motherboards and also some of the x48 motherboards say in their product description that they support these faster speeds for DDR but with the OC letters next to them. I know that OC stands for Overclocked. What I want to...
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    Asus 4870 X2

    Hi I like to buy the best of the best of the best when I buy a computer (within reason), which is why I want to shell out and buy a Asus 4870X2 for the Rampage Extreme II w/ the Core i7 920 I'm gonna get. I believe this motherboard features PCI Ex lane output for Crossfire of 16x/16x/8x...
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    Master/Slave = Dead?

    As I have mentioned recently, I haven't been on the market looking around for PC parts for over a year, and in those days (think nVidia 7800 vs ATI 1800 kind of days) I distinctly remember when researching Crossfire that one had to purchase a master card and a slave card. Aside from thinking...
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    PhysX cards

    In my new rig I will be purchasing two HD3870s for Xfire and I've seen talk in motherboard reviews about "another PCI-Express slot where you might want to put in for example a physics graphics card". I was quick to briefly research the capabilities and purpose of said cards and I am now...
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    Just got my Antec 900

    I just received my Antec Nine Hundred through the post, and I think its REALLY great. When you see the 200mm fan on top and that all fans are 3-speed, you're like "OHHHHHHHHHHHH" cos its just so cool! And the fans have blue LED! The only problem I got with it is some of the plastic that its...
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    Asus P5E3 Premium vs Maximus Extreme

    I have my eyes set on the P5E3 Premium at the moment, it seems to be the best X48 chipset mobo out there. It supports crossfire, support for more than 2 cards in crossfire, pci-e 2.0, ddr3 (which I want), apparently is a good overclocker w/ decent bios features including multiplier 0.5x...
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    Crysis

    What's the highest FPS that has been achieved to this day by all the gamers out there on Crysis? What is your highest? Include specs for highest performers!
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    Good Time To Invest?

    I read that Intel is growing quite significantly and if their current success with their processors is anything to go by, now seems like a great time to invest in Intel shares. I've never bought shares before, and even though Intel's are expensive, they seem about to boom even more than they...
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    Foxconn BlackOps X48

    *Sigh*! After changing my mind from trying to get the best Intel+SLI mobo to the best AMD Phenom+ATI mobo to trying to get the best Intel+SLI mobo again, I chance upon this fine beast. Now, had I not seen this, I would've almost definately gone with the Asus P5E3 Premium, as based on all the...
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    Which is THE best DDR3 module

    Need to know which is the best DDR3 module out there - highest performing, best overclocker. Thanks.
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    CPU Throttling

    I'm not sure this is a feature on most motherboards, it could just be on DFI ones (eg my SLI-DR Expert), I don't know. But what is this CPU throttling, and should it be modified from stock 50% in conjunction with doing any overclocking of the CPU? If so, is it better to have it lower or higher...
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    SLI and AMD, Xfire and Intel

    Is there any performance impact when one chooses to run two nVidia cards in SLI on an AMD socket motherboard? Any impact when one chooses to run Xfire on Intel socket motherboards? I read that ideally its best to run AMD with Xfire, and Intel with SLI. Any truth to this? I particularly refer to...
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    Extreme and... er... not extreme

    I haven't been researching the latest hardware for long, but I notice that the Extreme editions of Intel processors, particularly the quad core beasts, are ridiculously expensive relative to their not-extreme counterparts. Why is this? Also is it worth shelling out the extra cash? I worry...
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    Asus P5E3 Premium

    I just read this review on the P5E3 and I noticed something weird. The guy lists his test system as running an nVidia XFX 7800, but in the specifications the board is said to support Crossfire mode cards (thus implying ATI cards). Test System Weird Quote "Gamers are an obvious target...
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    I killed my PC.

    So, never really did overclocking before. Heard all this talk about the wonders of it, making things go faster than they are "supposed" to, getting 4Ghz out of a 2.5Ghz processor. All that. I remembered why I bought my DFI LanParty SLI-DR Expert back in 2006 - overclocking! And yet, up til now...
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    Crossfire + SLI

    I see a lot of PSUs being advertised as supporting SLI, but very few advertised supporting Crossfire, and even fewer advertised as SLI/Crossfire. And the search thins even more when you're after modular cables. Bit of a noob question probably, but when it says supports PCI-Express and SLI, does...
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    Sufficient Power

    I'm looking to buy a new system consisting roughly of these parts: Antec Nine Hundred DFI LANParty UT 790FX AMD Phenom 9700 2x Asus ATI Radeon EAH3870-G-HTDI-512M HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 DVI HDMI PCI Express 2.0 Corsair 4GB (4 x 1024MB) PC6400 Dual Channel DDR (QUAD2X4096-6400C5DHX) XMS2 C5...
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    Resolution

    Right now I have a BFG 256mb 7800GTX OC Edition running on my DFI Lanparty SLI-DR Expert [/brag]. The card's spec says it can do resolutions well over 1280x1024, up to two thousand and something by 1600+ (i can't remember the exact resolution, just really high), however on my computer's...
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    DFI LANPARTY UT 790FX-M2R

    I had my heart set on either an Asus M2A32-MVP or a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX, my countenance was rigid and clear! I want an AMD and Xfire motherboard supporting a Phenom. But then I came across my old love, I was so curious as to what DFI were up to, why had they disappeared from the shelves. I had...
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    P180 Problem

    I built my PC at the beginning of last year. It consists of this: 1x Antec P180 Case w/ 4 120mm case fans running at highest speed (very noisy!) 1x Tagan 550w PSU with modular cables 1x Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse (ps/2) (from old Dell) 1x DFI LanParty SLI-DR motherboard (such a nice...
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    PLANS FOR NEW BEAST... AHEM... BUILD

    Hello there, I'm thinking of buying a whole bunch of hardware to build a new PC including a new case and other bits which would not otherwise be necessary to buy such as keyboard and mouse, and I'm after some advice as to what you think will be good choices for me, or even whether I should be...