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    Videocard Fan stuck at 100%. what does it mean?

    Did some more research. The GPU fan has 4 pins. 4 pin fans have the power management (pwm) signal. Perhaps something in the fan itself broke... Not too sure though but since the video card works fine otherwise...maybe i should just put my own fan.
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    Videocard Fan stuck at 100%. what does it mean?

    I am starting to think it has a major problem myself. I dont remember this thing at full blast when the computer is turned on. I think the auto was supposed to work even before windows boots. Perhaps a sensor burned out and there is a fail-safe to just go max RPM?
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    Videocard Fan stuck at 100%. what does it mean?

    It just wont work.......
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    Videocard Fan stuck at 100%. what does it mean?

    I was playing mechwarrior online and the videocard fan kicked into full blast. It sounds very annoying at 100%. I do not overclock my system in any way. I tried doing a full power down and the problem persists even during the bootup. In the Catalyst Control Center the manual fan control is...
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    Success!!! Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 works with Phenom 2

    I am wondering how you know it supports the phenom II because gigabytes site doesnt mention anything about the phenom 2 on the 790FX DS5. which bios version has the phenom II support???
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    Finally made the move to Intel

    I got your snappy right here
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    Fried Chip or Motherboard or Both?

    Take out the RAM, see if it turns off by itself still, see if you get the correct beep for no memory If it still turns off by itself its not the RAM http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm#05
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    Heatsink can't fit onto motherboard!!!!! PLEASE HELP!

    you can pull off the socket fixture by unscrewing it, then file or grind down the places where its bottoming out so the heatsink will fit, also put the ram in the furthest slots if its touching or really close. You shouldnt have to do this but if your desperate this could work.
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    AMD analyst day meeting.

    I think AMD will pull out of its nose dive but it will never be 2005 again. Well, you never know :D
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    TLB errata is about error in calculation not heat.

    anyways, Barcelonas and Phenoms have the bug, so either AMD tried to hide the whole thing because they fabbed 500,000 chips and realized they were all possibly scrap, or they were truely oblivious of the bug until the last minute when they realized that couldnt make it stable past 2.4 GHz
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    TLB errata is about error in calculation not heat.

    Actually the Phenom 9500 is 2.2 GHz
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    TLB errata is about error in calculation not heat.

    I read somewhere that the problem stems from a race condition where two cpu's try to access the L2 and L3 cache at the same time and store the information in reverse order in the L3 cache but correctly in the L2 cache. If the L2 cache for that particular bit of information is purged from the...
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    overclock damage?

    Its not the only power from the wall that matters! (Pick whatever numbers you want)If your whole system uses 300 watts(hypothetically) under load with the CPU overclocked, and 210 when not overclocking the CPU. That means that the CPU is increasing your TOTAL draw by 30 percent like you said...
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    overclock damage?

    Did you ever find out how much more percent power your CPU uses? Just the CPU
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    Windows XP Windows Vista x32 and x64 at this point and time.

    Im thinking about finally upgrading. Should I get the system builder or the Retail Box? Should I install 32 or 64 bit.(I mostly play games and encode video) I know most software doesnt benifit from 64 bit but will 64 bit hurt anything? Or should I keep using XP for a while longer...
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    overclock damage?

    okay im a BIG exaggerator! but here as you can see going from 3.0Ghz to 4.0Ghz DOUBLES the power requirements i was wrong to say 250 watts http://www.tomshardware.com/20...ir_cooling/page14.html
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    overclock damage?

    calculating overclocking power usage: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=94726 "So this 36% overclock and 18% core voltage increase has resulted in a 88% wattage increase." power leakage: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2343&p=3 The smaller the process the more power...
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    AMD is up to something...

    I would suspect Hector Ruiz is out, its too soon to make a product announcement, whatever it will be it will be really bad or really good AMD should have launched a 3.0GHz part but ended up with 2.4 Ghz with issues, someone has got to take the hit for that. Its also possible they hired on...
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    Does my x1900xt have bad memory?

    when video memory goes bad you should see artifacting everywhere, even outside of games. When you see artifacting only during high loads it could mean its heat related, like dust clogging up your ATI heatsink fins. Those all look like direct X10 games and your probably running windows...
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    overclock damage?

    the only point in overclocking now is if you have the fastest CPU money can buy and the cash and time to blow on risky water cooling and sub-ambient cooling equipment. Or if its a hobby you like. Some people love to tweak settings day in and out. for example, You can buy a budget Chip with a...
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    overclock damage?

    overclocking increases the rate of electromigration along all of the circuits of a CPU. While an overclock may seem stable at first, usually they eventually become unstable sometimes even if you return to stock speeds. Whether its 6 days 6 months or 6 years its never predictable. Also...
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    Phenom TLB patch benchmarked (Tech Report)

    The only problem i can find with my Phenom and 790FX is that i have to run the memory at DDR2 800(the bios is defaulting me to 800) because 1066 causes bad things to happen. This could be a problem with the motherboard and the memory compatibility more then the cpu's fault. However, the effect...
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    More info regarding Phenom TLB issues

    You guys are blowing this way out of proportion -If your going out of your way to buy a amd's long awaited quad core chip at launch and build it yourself your probably also aware of something called the internet, and early adopters should always know this kind of stuff can happen with early...
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    Big Warning about Gigabyte motherboards with silent pipe

    i dont hink everyone will have this problem. Just the people with the metal nameplates on the heatsinks
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    Big Warning about Gigabyte motherboards with silent pipe

    its metal that conducts electricity and the thing that bothers me is that they go through all the trouble to put these nameplates on the motherboard and never wondered what could happen if the glue failed
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    Big Warning about Gigabyte motherboards with silent pipe

    I upgraded from an x2 3800 w/ DFI ultra-d and 2GB of XMS along with a 7800GT The motherboard defaults to DDR-2 800 and if i force it to 1066 its unstable. Hopefully this is fixed. Other then that everything is perfect. I dont know about overclockability, i would rather just have a...
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    790FX - Phenom

    I cant wait to read all the bad stuff about the motherboard i just bought
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    Big Warning about Gigabyte motherboards with silent pipe

    I also pulled off the gigabyte logo on the other end of the heatpipe but that was well attached
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    Big Warning about Gigabyte motherboards with silent pipe

    If you have a Gigabyte motherboard with silentpipe you might want to take off the sticker. I found mine laying on top of my videocard, luckily i dont think it shorted anything. The sticker looks to be made of plated sheet metal with adhesive on 1 side. My particular motherboard model is...
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    Over clocking effects on the long term

    overclocking causes more of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration
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    Itunes Store Just lost a customer

    that makes sense, maybe their isnt a problem then if you can de-authorize once you hit the limit I was just thinking, if i build a new computer every two years, by the year blah blah my itunes music will be botched
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    790FX - Phenom

    AMD needs to focus on higher IPC, and getting as much efficiency as they can out of their parts now that they make their own CPU's, Chipsets, and Videocards.
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    Itunes Store Just lost a customer

    I just built a new computer last week and yesterday i needed to recharge my ipod and add some songs. Same install of windows To my surprise, itunes comes up and says im not autorized to have all of the songs I PAYED FOR and deletes all those songs from my IPOD automatically without...
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    DDRII1066 only regestering as 800 plz help

    My system specs are in my sig. The bios will only let me go up to 800MHz with my ram, it also autodetects it as DDRII 800. Is this some kind of compatibility problem?
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    How fast is Phenom's Memory?

    Is anyone aware of a multi-threaded memory benchmark? I am getting erroneous results from Sisoft Sandra...... and info is appreciated
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    The end of AMD

    I think everyone was expecting this: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2397&p=17 and instead got this http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3153&p=7 and now we have a AMD died thread
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    The end of AMD

    this i know, from this here article http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2738&p=4 Okay so AMD had DDR-I and Intel had DDR-II.....big deal. From those old benchmarks i can see they hadnt even saturated DDR yet. Sure the bandwidth went up but the chips never took advantage of it. They...
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    The end of AMD

    I dont mean to appear like some AMD fan-boy, but almost everyone(except for you enlightened people reading this) seem to think the flagship parts makes or breaks the whole company. When in fact..... you may be forgetting that the average person is totally oblivious to whatever they are...
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    VIDEOCARD CHEATSHEET

    no! this http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2195&p=5
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    VIDEOCARD CHEATSHEET

    Its a year old, update it already.....