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    Getting freezes in my games..

    Hey folks. I upgraded just recently, to an Athlon 3200+ 64-bit, gig of PC3200 kingston ram, and GA-K8N-939 motherboard. I put this together with my Aspire 500W Powersupply and my XFX Geforce 6800 NU with stock speeds and cooling. Needless to say, i'm getting some great framerates in all my...
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    Geforce 6800 is overheating?

    I'm having a problem with my Geforce 6800 NU. Games like BF2 will lag terribly or crash at random times. And serious sam 2 runs at a very low framerate as soon as I start a level (when I turn to the opposite direction it runs fine, though). And my GPU temp seemed to get close to 90C when I was...
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    AMD Athlon XP 3200+ FSB @ 200 mhz, should be 1 ghz?

    I need to know this, but last time I checked, my processer is running at 200 mhz on the FSB. But it's advertised as 1 ghz. Should I crank it up to 1 ghz, or leave it?
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    Upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit.

    Alright, here's the deal. I decided to get a new CPU and motherboard upgrade. 3200+ 64bit and a motherboard to match. But I want to know, what precautions should I take before, and after I upgrade?
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    Got a problem with my wireless keyboard/mouse..

    Hey guys, I got a microsoft wireless laser desktop 6000 at bestbuy today. But i'm having a problem. I installed the software, set up the reciever into the USB port, and configured my keyboard/mouse. Anyway, my problem right now is gaming. When i'm moving the mouse around and shooting, trying...
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    How much increase in preformance can I expect?

    I need to know this because I am thinking about buying a socket 939 motherboard, another 512 mb of ram to get a gig, and upgrading from my Socket A 2500+ to a Socket 939 3000+ The main reason I want to do this? For bragging rights, oh, and so my geforce 6800 vanilla won't be bottlenecked by...
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    My connection is slooooooooow

    Hey guys, I cannot deal with my connections speed. I have cox.net and i'm located in Tulsa, OK. I am supposed to be getting download speeds of up to 500 KB/s but I never get anywhere near that (for example, fileplanet will give me about 40 or 60). Other people with my ISP or cable get much much...
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    Getting internet in my room.

    Hello. For the past 10-12 years i've had the PC in the living room, and I want to get it set up in my room, but my dad doesn't want to do it until we go wireless. But that'll take awhile since we don't have the money at the moment My dad wants to get an internet switch, but i'm not sure what...
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    64-bit, worth it?

    hello. i'm still thinking about if I should get a 64-bit motherboard, and a 3000+ 64 bit processer (FX-53), or get a 3000+ 32 bit processer. I would save myself $150 (more or less). but i'm not sure if 64-bit is worth it. does it really give a preformance boost over most games today? is windows...
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    Motherboard decisions, overclocking ram

    OK, I found out that 939 boards and cpu's are getting dirt cheap now. $70 chaintech 939 board, $135 oem 3000+ 939 processer, and 512 megs of ddr400 ram is $52! holy sh**! but I want to know. should I go for PCI-E..or AGP 8x motherboard? does AGP still have life in it? I want it to last until...
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    ahh! future proofing my hardware

    now, i'm not old enough for a job. so I need to be careful about what I make my parents choose when they buy me pc parts. I wanted to future proof my pc for unreal 3, at the moment I have a geforce 6800 vanilla, amd 2500+, and 512 mb pc 2700. my ram and cpu are bottlenecking. and my motherboard...
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    Anyway to perm ban someone on irc? (please read)

    i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, I chose this forum because it's filled with pc junkies, and I bet some of them will know about this kind of problem basically, there is this script kiddy going rampant on an IRC channel. flooding it, hararrasing other people, and...
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    Geforce 6800: less-then-good framerate.

    I have a geforce 6800, amd 2500+ @ stock speeds, and 512 mb pc2700 ddr. I am using drivers 67.66, with the latest motherboard drivers. Nothing is overclocked or overheating (from what I can tell), and I get around 25-30 fps on counter-strike source, and sometimes less on half-life 2. I am...
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    Overclocking help

    I have an amd barton 2500+ with stock heatsink. how far should I overclock it? since it's bottlenecking my 6800, I think I should either overclock the 2500+, or spend $140 on a new cpu..
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    Is leadtek a good company for geforce 6800 cards?

    need to know. thinking about sending my xfx 6800 back to get one from leadtek, since it's only $5 more.
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    Windows xp pro boot image?

    OK, long story short, windows screwed up, and I tried to reinstall windows. my XP pro cd was scratched up from hell and back. I moved the file to another CD, but I need a boot image because it gives me the error "NTLDR is missing". what exactly do I do? please help!
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    How do I get (some) scratches off of cd's?

    I am trying to install windows XP (again), since eariler I started a topic about reformatting screwing up. I just had to mess around with some wires and such, and it formatted. but when I tried to copy the files off the CD, it would get to 31% and hang there. so far I tried hot water + paper...
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    Windows could not format?

    hello. Earlier today windows screwed up, and I had to reinstall windows. now I am trying to format my D: drive so i can start over, when it finished, it said something about it not being able to format. thats all it said. I tried to format again, and when it gets to one block, it stays there...
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    isn't there some kind of $1000 case that keeps stuff at -0 degrees?

    i heard about this kind of case a year ago, but I just started to think about it. wouldn't be kick ass to own that? you could overclock everything like hell, easy
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    Can reformatting really help?

    I have an XFX 6800 standard, amd 2500, and 512 megs of ram. I know my cpu is a bottleneck at the moment, but I want to try something realistic that can help. some people tell me that reformatting can help, since I upgraded from a geforce 2. I used atleast 60 gigs on my 120 gig harddrive, and I...
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    Good, cheap socket 939 processer/motherboard?

    I wanted to know this. since I got my 6800, my amd 2500+ has been bottlenecking it according to everyone else. so I think the next best step would be 64-bit 939. I heard that 754 is old, so there's not point in getting that. I just need to know if a socket 939 processer and a motherboard can...
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    Is a bios update worth it?

    I was just wondering. the ASUS website has some bios updates, and I was wondering if I should bother flashing a new one. would it help me in any way? like speeding up my pc, or giving me more options.
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    Overclocking with stock cooling, safe?

    I have an amd barton 2500+ with 512 megs of ddr. Together with a geforce 6800 standard, hooked into a 500w powersupply. I tried new drivers (using 66.93 atm), nForce drivers, and tempatures seem fine. and I can't seem to get anything to speed up. half-life 2 plays at 30-50 fps on average...
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    I'm curious. Are nVidia and ATI allies, or fiends?

    I mean this by if the owners of nVidia, or the company as a whole, hates ATI. or vice versa. It kind of bothered me.. :Q
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    How many people have had problems with XFX tech support?

    just curious. I called them 4 hours ago, and left a voice mail, and they called back 3 hours later. I was not mad because they solved my problem. My videocard was running slow not due to my cpu, or ram, but to an underpowered card. I forgot to put in another power connecter that was needed for...
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    How many connecters are put into the 6800 standard?

    Just need a quick answer. thanks.
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    What bios settings do you have set for your 6800 standard?

    I don't want to reboot to get a full list, so I wanted to ask you guys first if you could find out and tell me (nothing overclocked or the like, but I would like to know what AGP frequency the card runs at. I have it set at "auto") because eariler yesterday I turned on "video ram cacheable"...
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    Sound working fine on speakers, but not headphones?

    second edit: nevermind. turns out I didn't fix it with a reboot, it seems like it. also, sound channels in games and such are messed up. like if I hear someone infront of me, it's very quiet, but if i turn around, it's loud.
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    should I flash, or update my bios?

    i wanted to update my BIOS, and I am using asusupdate, I got 1010-X.bin ready, and now I have to click "Flash", i'm rather scared of this, I don't know what I should be worried about, and I can't find any floppy disks around (haven't checked in the attic, though). if the bios doesn't work right...
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    increasing preformance on my geforce 6800?

    i'm having troubles with preformance on my geforce 6800, amd 2500+, and 512 mb ddr. I'm using the latest videocard drivers from nVidia, latest nForce drivers, did tweapXP, checked my bios, and scanned the pc. half-life 2 still preforms badly (40-60 fps indoors, 30 and less outdoors) at...
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    Who here has an amd 32 bit 3000+ and geforce 6800 regular?

    after much thinking about it, I think I should upgrade from a 2500+ to a 3000+. no, I won't overclock. said that in another topic. I get frames as low as 20, and 40 on average with my videocard, and my cpu seems to be the culprit. mostly everyone I know says that their geforce 6800 runs great...
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    Can I use an amd 2500+ heatsink on a 3000+?

    okay, I tried EVERYTHING, and I still can't get hl2 to run at fast speeds on my 6800, and I guess I will give up and just belive everyone when they say my processer is a bottleneck. so, I looked at newegg for a fast processer, and found an amd 3000+, 400 fsb, not 64-bit, but I think it will do...
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    poor preformance with hl2...

    (I posted this topic in general hardware, but I found it better to repost it here) I got a geforce 6800 a few days ago, and stuck it in my amd athlon xp 2500+ and 512 mb of ram. I was loving the game, it was great, but I started to get very..very angry at it.. I turned everything up to...
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    Why is my videocard bus PCI x0?

    I was having problems with framerates with hl2 on my geforce 6800, and a friend linked me to a tweak guide over at ign, it told me to go to my nvidia CP to edit stuff, and I found out that it says "bus PCI x0", why is it not AGP 8x?
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    How do I get the most out of my videcard for hl2?

    recently i've gotten a geforce 6800, i'm using drivers 66.93 and no, it's not overclocked, and it's not overheating. I upgraded it from a geforce 2, and I already uninstalled the drivers from before it (I hope..). I play hl2 at high settings with reflect all. it plays fine, but there are lots of...