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    Stress Buster

    Bear with me, chaps and chapesses. I've had a hard day. I work for the Civil Service in Northern Ireland, in a role that is primarily concerned with the interface between legislation and policy and the operational effects of both. My boss is, by upbringing, a trainer. His boss is an...
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    Thermalright HR-01 Plus with duct

    I'm considering, as part of a planned upgrade to my main rig (see spec in sig), changing from the AC Freezer 7 Pro to a Thermalright HR-01 Plus coupled with a Zalman F3 120mm fan in push configuration. The fan at the back of the case (directly behind the heat sink) will be changed to a Scythe...
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    Any Benefits of Larger L2 Cache?

    Confession first: I know how to put components together, and I've been lucky in that I haven't had any serious problems so far. After that, computer architecture is just a load of zeros and ones to me... Problem now: I'm thinking (because I've got some "spare" cash coming) of...
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    X1950 Crossfire or HD 4850

    Excuse the long post: At the time of writing, it's late and I?m on my 3rd vodka and red bull? My current rig is in the signature below (hopefully). However, amongst other things (which I shall not ask you, kind reader, about) I want to upgrade my GPU. Some background: I use my PC...
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    Massive Overclock

    I've just finished a complete tune-up and rebuild of my e4300 system which I built at the end of the summer. I've got it to 3.0 GHz stable and cool and I'm happy. That's a 67% overclock on air. So now I've turned my attention to my secondary rig, based on an AMD Athlon (Barton) XP 3200 on...
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    Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R rev 1.x (A2)

    Something strange is going on, and I'd like to know why. I had upgraded from BIOS F8 to F9 in search of a higher OC for my e4300 but found some memory errors using WINDIAG and Memtest. Having googled the errors, I was advised that there were some memory issues with BIOS F9. I reverted to F8...
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    Errors in WINDIAG memory diagnostic

    Hi folks :) For the first time ever, I have run a memory test using WINDIAG (yeah, yeah, I'm new to this overclocking lark. Gimme a break please...). My memory is 4 x 1 Gb of Corsair CM2X1024-6400C5DHX running at 4-4-4-15 Vdimm 1.968v (stock spec is 5-5-5-18 Vdimm 2.1v). At the first...