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    Keyboard problems

    Hi I have just purchased a Mionex Sibal 60 keyboard, and it is great. One problem, I cannot get into the bios as the del. key does not appear to work until windows has loaded. it appears to me that for some reason the keyboard is not recognised at load up, my old G15 and in fact all my other...
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    Word 2007 Problem

    Hi again I recently had to reinstall XP Home on my wifes laptop. I installed Word 2007 as before, but a strange thing has happened, and hopefully someone can throw some light on it. When typing a new document, and you come to the end of the first page, it does not automatically flow onto the...
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    Advice on upgrade of old pc

    Thanks for the advice. I am just useing it too experiment with really,it will no doubt blow up! Lol
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    Advice on upgrade of old pc

    Hi again I have been given an old "broken" pc, which I have now got working by getting a new AGP graphics card for £16..lol. I am intrigued to see how quick I can get it to run. It currently has an Intel P4 1.8GHz socket 478. The mobo is an MSI 6398(845 Ultra AR), with a max listed bus speed of...
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    Crossfire making no difference with dual 5870

    I get an average of a 38% increase in CrossFire with my VaporX HD5870's in BC2
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    Crossfire dilemma!

    Hi all, I have always been an nVidia man until the delay upon delay of Fermi, hence I was forced to go ATI, and very glad I did.The two VaporX HD5870's I have in crossfire are superbly fast, cool and quiet. Anyway I digress, I had two bridges connecting the cards, and have had no problems(for...
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    Asus P6T DeLuxe dilemma

    Thanky for the no worky comment....lol Cheers :) :)
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    Will This Short Out The MB.........

    I don't understand what you mean by "slot covers", if you mean the rear expansion card covers, I don't see how your motherboard can be touching these.
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    Asus P6T DeLuxe dilemma

    Appologies if this is not the right section to post my question...ah well here goes. There are 6 SATA connectors on the mobo and 2 SAS connectors. Can you connect a SATA device to the SAS connectors, I have used the up the SATA connectors and need to attach another HDD. Thanks in advance.
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    SSD lets down Windows 7 Performance index

    Thanks for that guys. :)
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    SSD lets down Windows 7 Performance index

    I have been told before that the Windows performance index is not important, this may be the case, but I am curious as to why my Crucial M225 SSD lets down the side so badly. The figures are as follows: Processor 7.5 RAM 7.5 Graphics...
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    It finally happened, I'm starting a gaming blog - your input wanted

    Being a bit of an old fart I think that anyone who takes the trouble to get something off the ground, should get support. NOT ridicule and childish unhelpful remarks.If after a while the blog doesn't work, then fine, the guy has tried. For chrissake why do people feel they have to tear something...
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    SSD and Defrag.

    Thanks for the input, you have confirmed my thoughts. Cheers NoM8s
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    SSD and Defrag.

    Just a quicky, Any thoughts on if its necessary or harmful to defrag SSDs. Cheers NoM8s
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    Building a new pc , is it worth going to SSD or should i stick with SATA

    I must admit that coupling an SSD with windows 7 really does make things much more responsive, however, I'm not sure that the increase in speed is justified by the price at the moment.
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    Windows 7 cannot compute your performance index

    I also flashed my Bios yesterday to the latest, but the problem still remained. Ah well i'll keep tinkering, and if I get a solution I'll let you know. Cheers NoM8s
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    Windows 7 cannot compute your performance index

    Thanks for the suggestion blazer. I reset the bios to default, and still the same problem. As I said earlier its not really important, I just find it intrigueing why this should occur. If you find in the future that the problem is correctable I'd appreciate some advice. Cheers NoM8s
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    Windows 7 cannot compute your performance index

    Hi all, This is not of earth shattering importance but a fairly big niggle. I cannot get the index score for windows 7, as it stops a short way through with the above message. before I'm deluged with people saying that its a" useless piece of info. anyway", I am just curious why it should...
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    Formatting Vista in Windows 7

    Thanks for that I have done what you suggested and all is now well. Thanks for the quick response. :)
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    Formatting Vista in Windows 7

    I have been running Windows 7 on a clean install on a Crucial 128GB SSD ( as a Dual Boot), now that I am happy with Win7 I want to format the HDD that Vista is on. I have tried through Disc Management but it will not allow me to format the Vista drive. When I disconnected the Vista drive the...
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    monitor problem

    Thanks for the input. I have been working on it and updated the graphics drivers, which were only 5 weeks old, and now it works. Can't believe that it cured the problem. Anyway thx for the response.
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    monitor problem

    I have just bought an Iiyama 24" screen Prolite B2409HDS. It will only work with a DVI to VGA adaptor connected to my graphics card( as it only has DVI connectors). and connecting to the VGA socket on the monitor. If I connect the DVI cable it boots up to the desktop then goes to black and...
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    Dual Monitors In Game

    Your right COD5 does not like Alt+Tab at all, I feared that was the only way. Thanks very much for your prompt response. Cheers
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    Dual Monitors In Game

    Hi I wanted to set up a dual monitor so I can have RCon in the second monitor while gaming, to save coming out of game to kick someone. I've gaot it all up and running and the second monitor works fine, however once in game the mouse refuses to go to the second screen. Can anyone shed some...
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    So is an X-Fi really worth it now?

    Can't agree with you, the sound is crystal clear and no hint of "muddyness"
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    So is an X-Fi really worth it now?

    In my opinion it depends what your sound needs are. I have always thought that a seperate soundcard is a must, even though I am mainly a gamer. On my latest build I bought a PCI Express SoundBlaster XFI Titanium, and yes the sound was as good as my old Extreme Gamer soundcard, but there were...
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    CPUZ jumpy clock speeds

    OK thanks for that, something else I've learned.
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    CPUZ jumpy clock speeds

    I'll check it later and let you know if it does the trick. Thanks for the replies.
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    CPUZ jumpy clock speeds

    On my 3.6 overclock CPUZ doesn't show the same core speeds, is there a way to stabalise the values. Folow the links for screenies.Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Text Text
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    Overclocking the e8400

    What you have said about the Temps. is interesting, I'll test with Orthos as well and see what the effect on the Temps is....I'll let you know. What other testting software would you suggest?
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    Overclocking the e8400

    Finally I have managed a stable 3.6GHz overclock on my E8400 and my settings were as follows CPU FSB 400 PCI Freq.100 V Core 1.26250 FSB 1600 Memory 800 Core Temps running Orthos for two hours Idle #0 37 deg. C #1 36 Load #0 46 #1 46 These are max...
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    Thanks I'll bare that in mind when I blow my first processor. or motherboard.
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    I have the Akasa Nero, might go for the Thermalright Ultra in the future, its supposed to be a little more efficient, but the Nero is doing just fine at the moment.
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    Thanks for the compliments...I wish my overclocking abilities were as good as my table making abilities......lol
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    Very drole..lol
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    Not yet I've been messing around with me other toy E8400....I will let you know how I get on when I get time to have a bash.
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    Not yet I've been messing around with me other toy E8400....I will let you know how I get on when I get time to have a bash.
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    Overclocking the e8400

    OK I'll bare all that in mind, thanks again for sharing your thoughts.
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    Cheers for that.