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    Why is there no throttling on my GTX 590 when idle?

    I bought an Asus gtx 590 video card yesterday. There is one thing sticks out like sore thumb: very noticable fan noise and heat output even when the card is nearly idle in 2D desktop environment. My card is not overclocked, nor have I made any adjustment to the voltage. I downloaded the...
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    How to verify cpu’s hardware virtualization?

    I recently bought an Alienware Aurora system that came with windows 7 ultimate 64-bit and an i7 980x Extreme. For the past few weeks, I had successfully installed mac os snow leopard under windows 7 with vmware workstation, had no problem surfing the net with safari or programming iphone apps...
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    Q9450 shooting for 4ghz, on air, possible?

    I have the good fortune of my Q9450 being cherry-picked from a tray 100 OEM cpus. My buddy, who works at a computer store, doesn?t have the time to overclock each cpu individually, what he did was picking the coolest running Q9450 out of 100, which I believe should be darn good. Anyways, my...