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    4ghz stability problem

    Hi people, am rather fed up now at getting my i7 920 stable at 4ghz so if anyone can help it would be much appreciated! Machine spec: i7 920 D0 stepping Asus P6T Deluxe V2 with 0504 bios OCZ Reaper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 (1600MHz) Corsair TX650 PSU Its also water cooled in a...
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    i7 time, couple quick questions :)

    Right have decided I need to jump on the i7 train especially hearing that Intel might be pulling the lower spec i7's when the i5's come out! Im going for the 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) as its supposed to be a good overclocker. What I need now is a good motherboard for overclocking but one...
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    E8400 Overclocking

    Whats a good overclock on an E8400 CPU on an Asus P5B motherboard? I don't want to go silly as its on air cooling but as its 3ghz stock would 3.6ghz be a reasonable jump? Any advice greatly appreciated as im still a noob when it comes to overclocking lol :)
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    8800GTX v 9800GT Sli'd ???

    Quick question, I have a BFG 8800GTX OC2 version but have a few BFG OC 9800GT's, do you think a SLi'd pair of 9800GT's would be better/worse/on a par with the 1 8800 GTX? Cheers :D
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    New case with good cooling!

    Hi all, Am after a new case for 'around' £100~, needs to have good airflow but not deafening! IE 120mm fans or something. I have a Lian-Li PC-50 (I think) which ive fitted 2 x BB 80mm front fans but to get the air flow I need they sound like the turbo in my car on full chat lol What do...
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    Are my temps a big high?

    I've recently started using Core Temp and noticed that the temps are high! :Q As per my sig below im running a Q6600 at 3.06GHz and its been running at that speed for over a year now without a problem. Ive recently started to do a bit of folding@home (using CPU & GPU for research) and...
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    Asus P5Q-E and Q6600 Overclock time, help needed!

    I already have a Q6600 overclocked to 3.0 GHz on a Striker Extreme board but I also have a Asus P5Q-E which has the P45 intel chipset with a Q6600 which is acting as my home server but I would like to get that upto 3.0Ghz a core as well. The cooling system is upto it just not sure how...
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    Motherboards with 4 PCIe slots

    Hi all, Need a bit of help please, I am building a demo system for work which will involve a high spec pc running 6 x 40" TV's, I have decided to use the Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 graphics cards but to run 6 screens I would need 3 cards so need a motherboard with a least 3 x PCIe x16 slots, all I...
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    Socket 771 motherboard advice

    Hey all, in a bit of a dilemma and wanted to see what you thought... I want to upgrade my home server which currently is just a dual core AMD 4200+ with 4gb DDR ram and 3 x 500gb sata drives on a HP raid-5 controller. I have sat about 8gb (4 x 2gb sticks) of normal DDR-2 6400 ram and also...
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    Happy with my new G/C

    After a couple of threads on what Graphics card to buy I thought sod it it im not going to bother with SLi anymore or at least at the moment (Had 2 x 512MB 7900GTX's before) and so wanted to stick with single GPU. Anyway I went with BFG again as I really like their stuff so a BFG 8800GTX OC2...
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    What do you think of this?

    I need to update my graphics very soon and just can't decide what to go for along the 8800 route, my current PC spec is: Asus Striker Extreme Mobo Intel Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz Crutial Ballsitix DDR2 1066MHz 2 x BFG 7900GTX graphics cards in SLi Machine runs damm quick and I can play most...
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    Best 8800GTX per £ (Or Ultra?!)

    As title really, what do people think is the best 8800GTX with 768MB Ram out for the money at the moment that has reasonable overclocking potential? Will be after 2 shortly so want to keep the costs of the cards down as best I can :) Buuuuuuuuuuuut having said that, would getting 1 Ultra...
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    OC'ing help on Q6600 & Striker Extreme

    Hi all, another noob here in the world of overclocking haha I've been a AMD man for years and only ever done mild overclocks but have just built a new system using a Q6600 and have heard about all the OC potential with these chips and so have decided I want to take it from 2.4 to around the...