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    Asus z68 v pro or Giga xp-ud3h b3

    Yea I'm just gonna with the v pro, cant go wrong with Asus. Thanks for the input.
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    Asus z68 v pro or Giga xp-ud3h b3

    Going to microcenter today for a 2500k + z68 motherboard combo deal. Choices are gigabyte XP ud3h b3 or Asus z68 v pro. This will be a liquid cooled overclocked gaming rig with 2 6950's and 8g 1600 g.skill. I'd rather get the ud4 but they sold out so these are my choices. What do you guys think?
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    Problem with new display

    I just got a Vizio SV370XVT 37" 120hz LCD TV. I have it hooked up to my PC with a DVI to HDMI cable from my 8800GTS 512. The problem I'm having is that I cannot set my display settings to 120hz. The max it offers is 60hz. This is through the NVIDIA Control Panel. Is there any way to set my PC...
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    8400 to 4gz?

    Cool, lemme know how that xigma does because i'll prolly end up buying another hsf.
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    8400 to 4gz?

    Just wondering if anyone here has gotten an 8400 to 4gz and what your specs were. Im waiting on mine to get here and plan to OC it to 4gz, i'll be using the Gigabyte GA p35 motherboard with 2x2gb g.skill ddr2 1000. I currently have the zalman 9500 or 9700..(can't remember i got it so long ago)...
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    New Gaming rig

    Ok, it's been a few years and now its time to upgrade my rig, especially since Age of Conan is coming out. Current rig: A8n32 sli deluxe amd opteron 180 zalman 9500 7800gt x2 2gig corsair xms 80g raptor 300g seagate So here is what i've picked out so far. Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L...
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    Perfectly normal CPU just up and croaks??

    wow, this is exactly like my situation. My rig (a8n32 sli-deluxe, opty 170, corsair 2x1050 3500llpro, 74gig raptor, 300gig seagate, zalman 9500, lian li pc65b, bfg 7800gtoc, seasonic 600w). I went to work the other day, left my computer on...came back the computer was turned off. I started...
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    Windows won't boot

    I had a tech come out and look at it, it seems that the motherboard was fried during the power surge :(
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    Windows won't boot

    Yeah, i've already cleared the cmos and it did not help the situation. As for the winxp boot floppy, i don't have one. My windows was an oem cd.
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    Windows won't boot

    Wow, i just tried swapping out hard drives. Put my slave drive into sata1 and removed the old master...and not a damn thing changed. It still just goes the same blank screen after bios and post messages. The windows CD still won't boot...I don't know what else to do.
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    Windows won't boot

    Yeah man, i've gone through the bios and looked at everything, and it all seems to be just like it should be, i've even tried changing some things around in the bios, but it didn't work. Although I did find out what might of caused this mishap....While I was gone from my house, there was a power...
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    Windows won't boot

    Don't get far enough to see the option
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    Windows won't boot

    Yeah, i've tried that alraedy...put the windows cd in and booted it up and it won't autorun it...I can't even get it to run in safe mode, wtf. So, i'm thinking the hard drive failed, its a WD raptor 74gig. I'm going to try and remove it, and load windows on my slave drive, see if that works...
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    Windows won't boot

    Ok, i have a custom computer that i built not too long ago that has been working perfectly. This morning the computer was working, i left it on while i left the house, came back to the house like 6 hours later and the computer was turned off. So i turn it back on and it goes through the bios...
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    I'm not sure...I don't have any programs that monitor it
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Fan connector was disconnected about a week ago because RPMs wouldn't go past 2300, CoolnQuiet is disabled, and I have no fan modding page in my bios :(
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    man wtf, i can't even get my fan that high, but even if i did get it to 2600 i don't think it would bring the temps down to your temps.
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Case ventilation is fine, i have 2 bottom front intake and 1 upper back exhaust and 1 topside exhaust. Pumping 1.41volts...not much at all. When I remounted, it looked like there was maybe too much AS5 so I used a credit card to scrape some off, and cleaned off the HS....So to answer...
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Yes, I could rotate it with little force..so I remounted it and bent the hell out of the retention bracket as much as I could without breaking it, remounted it and it, tried rotating it and it was firmly in place...I thought I had fixed the problem. But it seems like that only lowered the temp...
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Doh! of course! Well in that case, ambient temp would be avg of 70F
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Ok, got prime95 running now and it seems like the cpu is maxing out at 50C and MB at 38C. Speedfan indicates that all fans are running at 100%...is there anyway to get more rpm's out of the zalman? I'm gonna try to remount the fan, and see if that helps at all.
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    i don't have a reading for ambient temp, but the air blowing out the vents does not seem hot or warm at all.
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Can't tell you exactly what my full load temps are cuz it has never been through a full load, but it has shot up to 49C running WoW and HL2 simultaniously. Can you recommend a program that will tell me full load temps? I applied arctic silver 5 , put a drop on there and used a credit card to...
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    Opteron 170 running hot...need help

    Hey guys, I built a new gaming rig not too long ago, was my first build, everything went well but my processor seems to be running a bit hot (44/45C idle) . Could you help me figure out the problem? Here are my specs... Opteron 170 Asus a8n32sli deluxe 2x1gig corsair xms 1024-3500llpro...
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    Static shock damage?

    Cool, I was worried like all day that i might have damaged something, but I was very carefull to begin with. Lesson learned. Thanks all
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    Static shock damage?

    This is my first build and I did something pretty stupid. While putting togeather my system, I totally forgot about how static can damage hardware. I was standing on a thick chinese throw rug or something at my comp desk...and I was handling the sides and bottom of my MB while setting it to the...
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    Opteron 165/170 question

    Just got my 170 in today, anyone know how this stepping is CCBWE 0543TPMW ?
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    Opteron build

    dude If you like Asus go for the Asus A8n32SLI deluxe motherboard, it's overclocks just as good as DFI boards if not better because of the 8 phase power. If you can find it of course... Opteron dual core 170 Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe 2x1gb Corsair XMS 3500LL PRO BFG 7800gt OC Zalman 9500...
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    Help for beginner

    Hey all, I know you all get alot of threads like this but please bear with me, any advice will be much appreciated. With that said, I'm building my first rig and need help choosing the right processor. I already have the motherboard (asus A8N-32 SLI Deluxe) and the memory (Corsair...