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Recently my room got quite hot plus I got some new components so my air cooling is struggling to keep my parts cool. Besides I can't stand the drone of the fans anymore! ( I have over 8 fans in my system).
However, I have zero experience in installing a water cooled system. Been...
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I am considering adding a 128GB (or maybe 80GB) SSD to my setup and run my OS (and maybe a few select games) from it.
I am just wondering if they are really worth the high price they demand. Will it really make a difference and are they really worth it? Also are they reliable?
I...
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Two questions here that I hope someone could answer:
1) I have a 1TB HD with my OS installed on it (plus all the program files). If I buy a new HD can I just copy the whole content of the HD over to the new HD and run it off the new HD?
2) Is it possible to save Program Files to...
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I am posting here because I got worried after some comments from a friend of mine.
I have an 920 i7 CPU overclocked to 4.0GHz @ 1.400v at the moment. My room ambient temp averages @ 26 Celcius. According to CoreTemp v0.99.4.65 are cores are idling around 46-47 Celcius mark. On full...
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I just finished building my i7 rig and the specs are in my sig.
The problem is I am getting bad 3DMark Vantage scores. With my highest overclock at the moment (also in sig) I only managed to get around 13k marks @ Performance settings in 3DMark.
I also noticed the GTX275s runs a...
I hope that someone can offer some help here as I am truly running out of ideas.
This is what happened. I was installing Race Driver Grid and also the latest NVidia Driver 177.41. The installation of the driver hanged midway (my fault I guess for running the Race Driver:GRID installation at...
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I just got a GTX280 and it is fantastic! However, I am a bit miffed by the fan noise. I barely started GRID when the fan would go like a washing machine (>2000 rpm i think) and won't stop until I quit the game. It stays about the same throughout the game.
Is there any solution to this...
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I recently bought an aftermarket cooler according to a PC magazines recommendation only to find out it doesn't fit! I have removed the original cooler from my 8800GTS w/o checking first :(
It seems that all the vrams use thermal pads and only the GPU uses thermal compound. I don't...
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I am building a rig from old parts salvaged from my attic. I have 2 HHDs that I plan to use, which are Maxtor DiamondMax10 200GB S300 and Maxtor 250 GB 7,200rpm DiamondMax 10.
I temporarily tested them on my main rig and they still seem to work find. However, I am wondering if...
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Sorry if this is in the wrong section but I have a question regarding Windows XP. I have an OEM Windows XP at the moment on my PC. I am deciding to upgrade (only) its CPU to a more powerful one.
The question is, do I have to reinstall Windows XP after that or is it ok if its just the...
I am having a very hard choice deciding between these two options. I have a CF mobo so SLi is not an option. I am thinking if I should squeeze around £150 more to get GT280 or should I hold on and get two 4850s for around £300.
I game on a 24" monitor in its native 19x16 resolution. Hopefully...
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Recently been thinking a lot to get another CPU solely for gaming purposes. I am wondering if Q6600 (OCed @ 3.5GHz) is enough or is the Q9xxx series (or even the E8xxx) better for gaming?
I am thinking of maintaining air cooling though as I am not familiar with water cooling so...
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I have recently noticed a thing called Distance to TJ Max (using RealTemp). However I have no idea what are they for and the safe ranges.
I am currently @ 3.5GHz and around 41oC (Celcius) idle and around 67 under full P95 stress test.
My distance to tj max is between 51-55 for all...
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I noticed through Real Temp 2.5 that my core temps at idle (light web browsing) jumps from 44 to 55oC. I am just wondering if I should I just ease off the overclock or are these temps normal? At full load it goes up to around 72oC. At the moment, the average room ambient temps are around...
... get a 512 8800 GTS OC? I currently have 9600GT and to be honest it runs out of steam in some games.
My wife's PC needs some updating as well so I am planning to order my gfx card in one go. Thing is , I don't know if I should wait for the new cards to come out or just get the 8800GTS...
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I am very worried about my idle temperature. Although I happy I managed to clock my Q6600 to 3.6Ghz I get an idle core temp of around 50oC-56oCmax (according to Speedfan, Realtemp and HWMonitor)
This reading is taken after 2-3 hours doing mostly web browsing. My case is an Antec...
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My wife's PC recently had some malware so I helped to get rid of it. In the process I noticed how slow her PC was. So I decided to get her a CPU upgrade and also a RAM upgrade. Her mobo is Asus P5AD2-E Premium.
But, I am not sure which is the best compatible CPU for this board. I...
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I am just curious what is everyone's maximum clock speed for overclocking Q6600 on air?
Can you please post:
Speed achieved:
Clock speed x FSB:
Cpu volt:
Normal operating temp (CPU) :
Operating temp under full load (CPU) :
Thanks !
I am curious because I am trying to...
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I recently upgraded my system to as shown in my sig below. I heard that Q6600 + the mobo is very good for overclocking so I tried some O/Cing but all I used is the built in default settings in Extreme Tweaker (CPU level up) . I find that above 3.01GHz it is unstable. Can't pass Orthos...
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I am thinking of upgrading my video card (I am using the one in my sig profile) but I am not sure of which to choose. Should I go for Nvidia or ATI ? Should I consider Xfire? Is Xfire really worth the price ? (as my mobo only supports Xfire)
I also heard rumours that ATI will...
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I just finished building my rig and ran the free 3D mark 06 Advanced Edition 1.1.0. I was fairly dissapoint at the 8890 score I got :( I am wondering if I did anything wrong?
I ran the SM2.0Graphics test + CPU test @ 1680x1050 2AA.
Below are my system specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2...
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I am currently using WinXP Home SP2 as my OS (might plan to upgrade to Vista). I am wondering if 2GB of DDR2 ram ( 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 ) is enough? I seem to see that a lot of people are having 4GBs minimum in their setups. AFAIK 32bit OS only "reads" up to 3GB of RAM -...
Hello everyone!
I am having a slight dilemma here.
I have an Asus Rampage Formula and as far as I know it only supported Crossfire.
Now, I really don't know what option would I go for. These are what I have in mind:
1) 9800GX2 x1
2) 8800GTX x2
3) ATI Radeon 3870x2
Which do you...
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