a rather clueless person brought a motherboard back to the store.
he complained that it was unstable and he gets the blue screen of death. he was quite sure of himself that it was the MB's fault... so i take it outta the anti static bag and find the CPU socket was filled with thermal paste...
i thought i'd bring this up even though it's not quite a forum issue. it is however site related and i didn't want to bug anand through email so i thought i'd post it up in here. the system rigs section of the site seems to be buggy at mo. when will that be resolved?
looks like some very nice glare and sun reflecting effects :) gives it quite a nice realism boost on an already pretty impressive game.
take a look: here
comes with a web cam, a stack of games and of course, the card it self. nice "single slot" reference design 6800 ultra with dual DVI and the much loved dual molex ;) jk
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looking to add another 2 x 256MB of KHX PC3500 to my system, only problem is the price...
i'm in aus and cas 2 PC3500 seems to be dissapearing everywhere, geil and OCZ are both offering 2.5 locally and corsair has no pc3500, only cas 3 pc3700 for sale.
i looked up kingston's site and their...
ok, let me just first of all point out that i'm asking this for a friend.
he insists on buying a P4 3.4 EE which is not for sale in australia. it seems only in the US they are available so he's asking for a online store that has a 3.4ghz EE and ships overseas.
it's quite moronic i know, but...
6 month old WD 120 gig. started clicking recently... how long would u think b4 it goes?
I've unplugged the power until i figure out what to do with it. I'll RMA it for sure but I need to backup around 100gigs of data stored on it. To do that I'll have to get me another drive and I'm low on...
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weighs in at less than the SP94, this giant pure aluminium heatsink can be mounted on P4 sockets without removing the socket and adding a back plate as it weighs 250grams less than the SP94 while offering better cooling.
no exact numbers are thrown around but...
Gonna get one of these or an Antec Aria (bit overpriced) for a file sharing backup computer that can play some games as well and to take to private lans with friends.
I'm going to transfer all the parts except the motherboard from my spare rig into one of these compact babies. Got absolutly no...
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hmm, i'm wondering if that pic they included is the Ultra or the GT. GT is not yet published on the site, but that pic suggest that leadtek 6800U will not be dual DVI and will only have 1 molex connector. NV might have lowered the power requirement of the 6800U, but i was hoping their...
If anyone has any ideas why something like the below happens, any advice is appreachiated.
I just got an enermax 470W noisetaker. it worked fine for a couple of days and then suddenly this happened...
I go to turn my comp on one night and it turned on for a split second and turned off. I was...
first of all, thanks to all those who pointed me in the right direction as far as purchasing is concerned. :beer:
overall i'm pretty please. the PSU was a fairly nice jump from my cheap 500 watter which developed a noisy fan and was too loud to begin with. the quieter operating is also very...
this image is claimed to be R420 running Far Cry.
who are they trying to fool? if that's far cry then someone please tell me what year it is. i didn't know 3D games have become life like :disgust:
I live in Melbourne, Australia and I've been looking everywhere for a local Enermax PSU seller with no luck. Only choice is to order from interstate which I'm not keen on if something goes wrong. Right now I've found a local seller near by selling this Globalwin
Basically it's a 520W by...
i got a P4 1.7 around 2 months ago and just recently i noticed in the bios that you can enter a multiplier digit. i tried it in my albatron board and my gigabyte board and both had the "enter multiplier" option opened.
i know P4's are locked but i entered a number anyway but after saving and...
Anyone know a good free host that doesn't insert commercials or banners into your page and doesn't have pop ups? Hot linking support is not a big deal, as long as the page doesn't get modded in any way and who ever visits isn't flooded with pop ups. :)
This is more of an OCing question than general hardware. how much difference would a good PSU make to overclocking? I do believe Jeff or shady06 asked about this before, but I don't think they got many hits. Just thought I'd ask again for the hell of it.
I'm not talking the power rating, more...
those of you with compare links in your sigs and rig configurations, time to remove the dead URL.
how tedius that 3Dmark01 SE remains yet PCmark02 is no longer supported
Yesterday I noticed as I was copying large files, the rate of copy seemed rather slow. OS loading times seemed to have increased by a noticable margin as well. I knew something wasn't quite right so I ran SISsandra's file system benchmark and my primary WD 80 gig with 8MB cache is running at 2/3...
Out of all the S478 Pentiums, which models and relative steppings are better overclockers?
I'm not really sure of all the steppings out there but from memory M0 for HT 800mhz models overclocks better than D1 models...?
Also, for the older models such as the 533mhz "B Northwood" models and the...
g'day, I'm just curious as what vcore and vdimm boost is safe for daily use.
Currently I'm required to give my CPU a 0.05V Vcore boost to keep it stable running 3.7 and the ram running @ close to 200mhz @ 5:4 ratio doesn't require a Vdimm increase as it's rated @ 217mhz. Would a small increase...
Currently running Kingston HyperX 3500 @ close to 200mhz. FSB : RAM = 247 : 197 (5:4) Unfortunatly the ram does not overclock too well and running @ PC4000 speed was always going to be impossible so saying bye to 1:1 aspirations.
Problem now is getting my timings right. Stock was running @...
Hi, I'm trying to decide on which CPU to go for.
Since the 2.4c, which I love and the 2.6 have already faded out, I'm deciding between the 2.8c and the 3.0c. Difference in price is $50 AUSD ($35 US) which isn't much considering the tax Aus has on computer parts. I'm slightly leaning towards the...
CPU: P4 2.4B
Ram: Samsung DDR333
I'm looking for something that will have dual channel, HT and preferably Prescott as well should I upgrade to a Prescott core CPU later. SATA, firewire, Gigabit LAN (definatly a luxury I'm interested in) are not essential. Budget around $200-$250 Australian...
i'm having lots of game and application crashes lately. sometimes the game just terminates without any error message and report.
i ran outta options and took out 512MB of ram out of my system, now all the problems have gone away. i then tested the ram in another system playing games and tried...
Could anyone tell me if by saving the update installation files and installing them without using IE cause problems?
I being on dialup don't like using the Microsoft IE windows update as it takes time. Thus from previous updates, I've backed up the update .exe files downloaded to WUtemp folder...
i'm slightly curious as to whether placing hard drives a little too close to each other is harmful to data or the hard drives themselves. recently got a compact case and the hard drive compartment is a very tight squeeze for 2 hard drives. since these are magnetic devices, would them being too...
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