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    Homicidal PSU

    Yesterday I received my new Seasonic M12 600-watt PSU. With great anticipation I proceeded to install. All went well until I turned on the power - Nothing - dead, dead, dead. I started unplugging components to discover the grounding culprit - disconnected everything and still dead -...
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    Mem upgrade from DDR2-5400 to DDR2-1000

    I presently have 4 gigs of Corsair XMS2 DDR2-5400. I am considering the upgrade to Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 Will the performance gain be at all worth the rather expensive upgrade price. I will be able to achieve 1:1 with the E6600 but what will the real world gain in performance amount to?
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    E6600 system unstable after bios update

    Is it normal for a system to be unstable to overclocking after a bios update? This seems to be the case with mine. I was running stable at 3500, vcore 1.425. I updated to the 680i bios version p23 and I only last a few seconds at orthos before the system locks. Is it generally necessary to...
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    E6600 No Longer Stable Overclocked

    E6600 eVGA 680i mobo 4 1gb Corsair XMS 7900gs Nvidea System was overclocked to 3600 with vcore of 1.45, unlinked memory voltage at 2.0 It ran stable with dual prime 95 for 1.5 hours. I then found out about p23beta2 bios from evga and installed it. Since then the system is unstable at...
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    Vista with eVGA 680i

    Is anyone running Vista Rc1 or 2 with the 680i chipset? I am running a C2D E6600 on a eVGA 680i. At separate times I have installed both Vista RC1 32bit and RC2 64bit. After installation they both either blue screen or spontaneously restart. In both cases it took repeated attempts to get it to...
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    Tuniq Tower 120 with Gigabyte GA 965P-DQ6

    Has anybody used this combination? The obvious problem is the large copper backing on this mobo. Any particular concerns - how were they met?