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    DOOM 3 Slowdown: PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!

    It was the new Catalyst video driver; last friday i updated the 4.12 catalyst driver i had to version 5.2 that was recently released from ATI on 02-09. Last night, After trying such actions as playing at low settings, tweaking, defrag hard disk, even reinstalling the entire game, with no...
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    DOOM 3: drastic slowdown after 10-15 minutes of running

    I've been playing Doom3 for 2 days, the first minutes the games runs faster ok, but after 10-15 minutes of playing the game it becomes too slow to worth play, seems like a slow motion film, impossible to play. This behavior shows only in this game, i've completed Half Life 2 just fine, CODUO...
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    HELP with IDE RAID

    I'm planning to configure an IDE RAID system, i've been reading the manual, but still i'm not sure what to do. My disk are: two (2) 20GB MAXTOR IDE 5400rpm, one (1) WD IDE 80 GB 7200rpm with 8MB buffer half partitioned. I want to configure an RAID 0 system for performance, but i'm not sure how...
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    Need Help!!!!, ANTS in my Hard Drive!!!

    Believe it or not, after a windows BSOD: UNMOUNTABLE_VOLUME, I got out the hard drive to checkit in other computer, and perplex I saw ANTS coming out from it, when got hot in a low level format, what can I do?, the disk sometimes shows errors, other times works fine, i suspect, still are some...
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    I need help with Cool 'n' Quiet

    I used to have this feature disabled, yesterday I decided to give it a try, I did all steps mentioned in the manual, 1-Activated in BIOS, 2-Installed Driver in Windows XP (both original CD & new downloaded version), 3.-Selected Minimal Energy Administration, and nothing happens, the...
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    Radeon 9800 Overclockers

    I used Atitool to overclock my Radeon 9800 (non pro, non xt), its default rated to 325x290, Atitool reports 290 as memory speed, card specification says 580, is the memory double rated (290x2=580)? Atitool overclocked it to 362x319 (319x2=¿638?) as max stable speeds. Is this a good overclock...
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    Talk about CPU temps readings

    I'have been reading several topics about CPU temps, and i must say i can´t find a definitve word about what is good and what is just a dream. I can't belive a processor running a 23°-28°, that's impossible to me, a walkman runs hotter than that, so i would like to use that cpu as an A/A in my...
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    Overclocking SL-K8AN2E-GR Questions

    Hi, I have recently updated my cheap PC, with a SL-K8AN2E-GR, A64 2800+ NewCastle, 512 PQI Power Memory DDR400 PC3200, 2.5,4,4,8 default latencies, plus a SAPPHIRE RADEON 9800 Atlantis. I've readed a lot about overclocking, I never overclocked before, so now, I have lot of cuestions. I tried...