My sister is buying a new laptop for work (her boss is buying it) and she's interested in the Dell Studio 17. I'm not sure what screen resolution to recommend for her 1440x900 WXGA+ WLED or the 1920x1200 WUXGA with webcam. I've got the Dell XPS M1710 and find 1920x1200 great for gaming but...
I've got a copy of windows vista home premium 64-bit on it's way and this is my first try at a 64-bit OS. What I'd like to know is when I install windows and it searches for hardware updates will it find the correct 64-bit driver version or will it find the 32-bit version?
I know I have to...
I've just upgraded my sound card to the Auzentech X-fi Prelude 7.1. I had the Creative X-fi Platinum before. I ended up giving my Creative X-fi card to my brother-in-law and he replaced it with his old Creative Audigy 2 ZS. When we put in the X-fi card in his PC after removing the old Audigy...
I've just purchased the above mentioned card. Will I notice a slight improvement on my current setup or will will it be bottlenecked by my current CPU (check my signature for system specs)? I've been sick of the problems with my current crossfire setup and waiting on driver fixes to sort my...
I'm getting rid of my ATI crossfire setup (thank god) and fitting a single slot Nvidia 8800GT in my ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard. My question is which would be the best PCI port to put my Creative X-Fi Sound Card into which would create less conflicts. It confuses me when I look at the...
this is the memory I purchased for my GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6 with a INTEL CORE2 DUO E6600 CPU Corsair
Should I have purchased either of these 2 for increased performance? OCZ1 or OCZ2 which is the better of the 2?
I'm worried it won't fit around the heat pipe on the motherboard. Anyone else running this same setup without any dramas?
Also you happy with the temps?
And can the heatsink be mounted both ways , vertical & horizontal?
I'm going to buy a 500Gb Seagate IDE HDD and I have the option of getting a 7200.9 or the 7200.10 which one should I get, is there a big difference? It'll be running it on a older system a Intel P4 2.26Ghz CPU and a ASUS P4B533-v MB.
I'd be running Vista Home Premium.
It's not a gaming machine I have another machine for that. Would there be a huge difference in performance between the 2.
I've had the Antec NEO HE-550 power supply running in my system for well over a year now. In August I purchased a second x1900 video card and have been running it in Crossfire mode without any dramas at all. Until recently I've had a problem when I'd insert my removable hard drive rack, my...
I'm having problems when I go to start a game even 3dmark. The monitor goes into stand by mode but I can here the game still launching to the game menu and then I ctrl+alt+del to get to the desktop. cards are in correct order, dogle cable is hooked properly, I've enabled crossfie check box in...
I've been waiting for the price to drop on the ATI x1900 crossfire master card so I could go crossfire. The price now is pretty good but I'm not sure it's worth it. Should I just do it? If so the main thing I'm worried about is the dongle cable, when it loops from card to card what is the...
I'm thinking about adding a X1900 crossfire card to my system but I'm confused with these 2 cards selling at 2 different online stores =VI-HISR1900XTCF&input[category_id]=1413"]LINK / LINK of coarse I want the cheaper one but it says it's a X1900 were as the other site says it's an X1900XT both...
A mate of mine has an old ASUS P4B533-V motherboard Link with only 512Mb of memory . I had 2x sticks of this memory =RA-GL1G4000DC"]Link laying around so we tried to put it in to his mb with no luck, pc wouldn't even post and it would restart over and over. We even tried just 1 stick of 512...
I've only just completed my new system build today. The new system parts are listed in my sig. This is my first AMD build so I've just popped my cherry, was always an intel man.
My first problem of 2 is that I can't enter bios on boot with my saitek eclipse USB keyboard. I had too hook up...
I've already purchased all my parts and am almost ready to put the system together. I'm worried that I purchased the wrong power supply and that it won't supply enough power for the x1900xtx video card. The power supply is a Antec
I'm about to build a new system and I'd like to know if it would be safe to hook up this 90mm fan Link to the CPU header on a ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe as it'll be on a Thermalright XP-90. I don't understand the current draw figures.
When I boot my system and get to my desktop windows freezes for around 15 minutes can't do a thing, the mouse cursor will move sometimes then stop, can't click nothing. I'm not sure if it's a hardware or software problem, but my usb devices take a while to sync.
The only thing I've done to...
I've tried reinstalling the game again. I've tried the command line +widescreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200 in the shorcut but it still drops to desktop straight away. Need help.
With all the good reports I've read on the 2405FPW 24" I'm ready to ditch my Sony 21" G520 CRT and go for a LCD as my main screen for gaming and such.
What I'm not sure about is the response time quoted on Dells Australian website, it says that the response time is 16ms Link where the...
My current system is the intel P4 3.4Ghz listed below in my signature. I know you guys have multiple systems, but what I'm thinking about doing is building a AMD system purely for gaming which will have just a monitor, mouse, keyboard & speakers connected. I'd then use my current intel P4 as a...
I booted my PC up and noticed the CPU temp in windows was around 55c idle on my northwood, normally it's around 37-38c. I then went to reboot and the PC speaker alarm started to sound because it has gone over it's 65c warning set in the bios. I went in the bios and saw it go to 70c so I...
I'm thinking of getting one of these maxtor network drives in the 200Mb version Link So I downloaded the installation manual to see what's involved with the installation and noticed it said with the connection of a USB Multifunction printer that only the printing will work, is this true, won't I...
I've got 2 drives currently connected to my PC, a 74Gb Raptor connected to SATA 1 and a 200Gb drive connected to SATA 2. I wanna fit another SATA drive if possible rather than IDE. I have 4 free SATA connectors on my board but am unsure if I can use these, not sure if they are for RAID. Do I...
I'm thinking about getting this monitor but I'm unsure about something. I've read a review on it and found a thread on this monitor at this forum also. What I would like to know is, the vertical lift of the display, does it move up and down??? The review I found said it is limited but I'd like...
This is the LG notebook I'm looking into getting Link it has all the good bits and is light. Not sure on the battery life. Also the model I can get has 128Mb graphics card and I'd upgrade the System memory to 1Gb.
What I'd like to know is has anyone had good or bad experiences with LG...
while I was in windows my display went all funny and my system started to beep, so I then rebooted and nothing, won't even post. I've checked that everything is seated and plugged in. Reset cmos, romoved mother-board battery, held insert key while switching on but nothing. When I start it...
My monitor is a 21" Sony G520 connected with a BNC cable in the analogue port on the video card and my second monitor is a 19" Samsung connected with digital cable and plugged in to digital port on video card (this is working fine).
I'm using the latest 4.12 catalyst drivers from ATI.
I...
I can get this HIS x800XT video card Link but I'm confused, I keep seeing in the forums about them being PCI Express but the place were I can buy the card says it's AGP 4x/8x. Will this card fit and run to it's full potential on my Abit ic7-max3?
I've never water cooled my system before but I'm thinking about popping my cherry with this setup Link which sounds and looks good by the couple of reviews I've read on it.
I wanna lower the noise on my system as it has 7x 80mm fans running and if I go water cooled I can get rid of 3.
It...
Here is the review on the X800PRO Link What do you guys think of it? Is anyone running one, if so what's it like???
I've always been into nvidia graphics cards, if I go ATI is there a big difference with running the ATI, i.e. Drivers & overclocking (that's if they can be clocked)?
I've got coolbits registry mod installed for overclocking my video card. The video drivers are nvidia's 61.77. After upping the core and memory over clocking freq I'd do a test then rebboot play a game with no problems, then when I take a look at the adjustments I made with the core and mem I...
This is the BSOD message:
*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xF79694A4, 0xF79691A0, 0xF739C07F)
*** Ntfs.sys - Address F739C07F base at F7393000, DateStamp 41107eea
I was encoding a DVD at the tive from D:\ drive to C:\ drive, both use SATA, this is the second time I've received...
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