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    Problems! Blank Screen when booting up, but everything is booting!

    Well ill state my PC stuff first... EVGA nforce 680i SLi (Socket 775) (122-CK-NF68-A1) Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HK PC2-6400C4 (F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK) x 2 Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache...
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    Is SLI any good yet for Gaming, using 8800GTX's

    Have they ironed out all the bugs yet for SLI? Are profiles coming thick and fast for games? And how long do i have to wait for drivers for new games so SLI can work? Pretty much standard questions about SLI as i don't know to much about it, i have tried to find as much info on the...
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    1900XT isnt using its 3D Clock speeds...

    I thought this was happening for some time, so i thought id check properly and have use the ATI Tray Tools monitoring graph, and throughout the whole time of playing a game the Core Clock and Memory Clock never rose up from 500mhz and 1200mhz. They are supposed to be 620 and 1440. Anyway i...
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    Need help with new ATI Drivers!!!

    I mistakenly used driver cleaner to get rid of all my ATI files before actually uninstalling the drivers from the add/remove list. So now i have the 6.12 CCC on my computer, but doesnt work and when i try to install the 7.2 CCC it doesnt work, everything else on the 7.2 works fine, the driver...
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    Does the P5B Deluxe need a CPU connected to POST?

    From what the tech said at Overclockers said, it needs the CPU to post, which is a first for me as i thought it didnt need the CPU for posting. And he answered me quite quickly so i don't know if he knew what he was talking about. So can anyone confirm if the ASUS P5B Deluxe needs a CPU to POST?
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    E6400 gets to 3.2Ghz but RAM has problems.

    I have been able to run my E6400 stable with Orthos24 for some time so that seems to be running great at 3.2Ghz. My System is E6400 2GB G.Skill PC2-6400/DDR2 800 at 5-5-5-15 Asus P5B Deluxe 520w OCZ Powerstream 74.5GB Raptor 300GB Maxtor 1900XT 512Mb HIS The problem is Orthos24...
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    Graphical corruption = Dying GPU?

    Just wanted to make sure i am being right here, by asking you guys. Its pretty much happening on any game and every video i watch. There are dots of purple, red, blue, green all the different colours. These come up mostly when there are black parts on the screen like shadows and what not...
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    CellFactor Demo released and REQUIRES the PPU, can anyone test this?

    http://www.gamershell.com/download_13618.shtml Just really wanna see what this is all about, see how the physics is like and everything and see what type of performance you get as i know performance will probably be decreased but just by how much and if its acceptable really
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    Ageia Compared with and without on GRAW and Cellfactor

    http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=245 Thought i would pass this along as it shows the comparisons for GRAW with the PPU and shows him playing in Cell Factor with it on as well. Warning, you do need a fileshack account to dl these and the vids are pretty damn big. But the Cell Factor...
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    Cellfactor a new game using the Ageia PPU

    Cellfactor PhysX Video If you watch this, youll see how quite amazing it can be, there must be at least 1000 objects in that game, and it seems to me a multiplayer or lan game they are having. The explosions and the drawing in of all those objects look stunning and very realistic. And...
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    X1900XT-X for $460 special offer from Overclockers in the UK

    $460 for X1900XT-X Too good to be true, of course im taking VAT out of the way. But at last some decent prices. But its not gonna last long.... And i have no idea why they are doing such a huge sale on most of the X1900 range??? Is there something we dont know or is it just because no...
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    XFX 7900GTX XXX Edition looks very good with its high oc!

    Looks absolutely amazing with its Ocing, should be an amazing performer. Too bad it costs £500 or in dollars, $870 Some of the US guys can probably find it cheaper, as in the UK they love to price gouge! XFX 7900GTX 512MB XXX Edition Over here the X1900XTX are still going for $600...
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    X1800XT at price levels of the GTX

    At overclockers their cheapest X1800XT is at £314.95 w/o VAT and the cheapest 7800GTX is £289.95 w/o VAT. And the X1800XT is at the same or lower price than all the factory OCed GTX while all the 512s are more than a 100 pounds more expensive EEK! Its looking good for the price wars...
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    HDD Circuit Board replacements in the UK???

    Ive fried my circuit board on my Maxtor 250Gb Diamondmax 10 SATA150 Its got the part no of 6B250S0, so it needs to be that one for the circuit board to be compatible. Is there anyone that can help me find somewhere in the UK that will either repair or replace my circuit board or HDD for a...
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    Price cuts from nVidia on all 6800 models.

    http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=2930 Seems like nVidia want to clear out the inventory. Looks better and better for the SLi guys!
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    Just bought me a nVidia made 7800GTX!

    http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=604915 Get buying. Hopefully ill be able to OC this sucker! Looks like my X850XT-PE will have to be sold to some guy who doesnt know what hes buying so i can get my money back :P Now all i need is a bigger screen as i really want to stress...
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    Need help with copying one hard drive to another

    I need a bit of help, ive been looking around the site, searching and what not. Some stuff comes close but i cant find anything that will help properly. Well heres where im at. At the moment my Raptor 74Gb is just dying at the mo so i need to replace it with a new one. And at the mean time i...
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    7800GTX and 1Gb OCZ for $690, good stuff?

    Just trauled through the web and found these 2 stuff the cheapest. Ive already got 1Gb of OCZ PC3200 Platinum EL Revision 2. So ill be getting another 1 Gb and a 7800GTX. For what i can find, i think these are pretty amazing prices. For the UK guys, this is VAT off by the way, i dont...
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    R520/Crossfire/7800U News from reliable not under NDA source

    Well Gibbo the main guy over here in the UK for Overclockers, which probably is the biggest online computer shop in the UK. Well Gibbo is the main guy for the graphics card side of things in the company as he deals with all the major companies and vendors like nVidia/ATi and...
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    3% yield rate for the R520, dont know how true this is tho...

    http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=2487&s=1 I have a tendency to actually believe here than inquirer, i just hope the inquirer is right about this.
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    PS3 Playable Code Not As Super Fantastico As E3 Demos

    Well Sony held a press conference showing the REAL stuff thats gonna be on the PS3 and its not all that amazing compared the the "in game footage" we saw at E3. Tho they said its much better than current standards. Which is a given, it damn well should be...
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    AMD $11M profit / Opteron Sales up 38%!

    These finances for AMD for their Opterons look amazing at the mo... http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/74934/opteron-powers-amd-financials.html
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    Some info on the 7800GT pricing and the demise of the 6800U!

    Gibbo, the main guy over here in the UK for the company Overclockers, he is always in contact with nVidia and their vendors and what not so he knows quite a bit. I doubt hes fibbing, because in the quote hes not exactly praising the cards pricing. And since he works there, thats probably not the...
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    R5XX in 3Q Source Guru3D

    Info here from Guru3D They have some other info on the delay of ATis stuff and info on the other types of cards they are bringing out in the R5XX range. http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=2842
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    Crossfire without the master card (very hard to do)

    Full story here. http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=2832 "This has proven one thing; Composition engine is only needed for proper image composition not for performance or Crossfire capability between two cards is determine through chipset and drivers." Hmm, something to be discussed?
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    7800GTX Core can jump from 430 to 468mhz false advertising by ASUS!

    Heres the full run down. The clock is supposed to still read 430 but the geometric delta clock is actually 40Mhz more. So Asus have actually been saying their cards are 470Mhz while in fact its actually 430mhz. http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=2827 EDIT: lol sorry guys, kept...
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    R530 mainstream, R515 low end may be launched early

    Heres the info. I dont know if this is specualtion on the part of the news poster. But its news none the less, and i never knew about the R530 and R515 anyway... http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=2817
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    X-Initiative - ATi's yield troubles, connection maybe?

    I know it says this is on the 0.11 micron scale but it might be on the 0.9 also. Maybe this could be why ATi are having troubles or the rumour of it having troubles producing the right yields? http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=2776
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    New info on the G70 and R520...

    This is from a UK distributor and retailer of computer hardware. The guys online name is Gibbo, hes a reliable and trust worthy guy who comments in the GPU section all the time and is the head honcho for GPU information and stuff. Heres what he had to say. Hi there "ATI R520 is due...
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    ATI Multi Threading Patent...?

    Here it is from Beyond3D, i dont know too much about this myself, im not too clued up on the technical aspects of this, but i thought you guys might like to see this. http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=21716&forum=9
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    Problems that i cant find properly, need help.

    Well ive posted before about having problems with my hard drive. Well the rattling has gone, dont know how that happened. GPU seems fine, tho the temp while gaming heavily is around 75-80 with ATITool making the fan run at 60%. So this could be the problem i dont know for sure. But ive...
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    Raptor making scratcing noises...

    I need help on the backing up situation Ive got the WD diagnostic tool and i can use that to back up. Ive got a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250Gb, i want to back it up to there, but i also want to still use my computer. Would backing up the whole drive mean that it would copy the windows files...
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    ATi supporst HDR in Cryteks The Project

    A Section out of the webpage for you to read. When installing the game you'll see that HDR files are being installed. And with ATi putting their logo on it, im guessing (its a guess, but i think a good one) that ATi would have made a way or helped CryTek to code a way to make HDR possible on...
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    *X950* 3DMark05 Specification page...

    Well i dont really have much to say, i was astounded by this, so have a look. http://www.pcpop.com/pcpopimg/05/2/7581951.jpg http://www.pcpop.com/pcpopimg/05/2/6287161.jpg Linky to the site, if any of you can read chinese or translate it for us cheers PCPOP X950 Link I dont know...
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    EL Akasa SATA cable work in SATA II?

    Well pretty much what the title says, i got 4 SATA 2 and 4 SATA 1 connectors, and i have a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 16mb cache NCQ drive as well as a Raptor 74Gb. Would those cables work with SATA 2 or just SATA 1? And should i put the maxtor as SATA 2 as i gather SATA 2 can support NCQ? And...
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    Whats this guy talking about, is it true?

    "The one thing thats really annoying is that all of you say the A64 is better than the Intel blah blah BLAH. For some reason everyone thinks that the A64 is the only 64bit CPU out there..... The P4 64Bit Netburst CPU makes the A64 look like a chocolate teapot. Its been proved that its a...
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    Which 939 MB should i go for?

    Should i go for the new Nforce 4 MBs, and which one or should i go for the old school Nforce 3 MBs? Actually anyone got any reviews that compare all the nForce MBs toghether or at least some of them...
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    2Gb of Crucial Ballistix Ram ok?

    I dont know but is having 2Gb (four sticks) of PC3200 or DDR400 of Crucial Ballistix Ram on my MSI Neo2 motherboard ok?
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    Can SLI work without the Bridge connector?

    Well the question pretty much is up in the title. I was chatting away and i was told that SLI can work without the bridge connector, it just takes a performance hit, is this true?
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    The R500, R520 and the R600???

    Was talking on another forum and they said the R500 version for the desktop is going to be the R600 And that the R520 is just another refresh card, even tho i thought the X850 was the refresh card? Heres what they said... Is this true? Why would they call a core the R520 when the...