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    Zalman 1000watt or ThermalTake 1200?

    Greetings, I'm going to buy one of the following PSUs and I'm just can't really decide. The Zalamn ZM 1000 or the ThermalTake Toughpower 1200 ? My PC is overclocked and here are the specs : C2D E 6860 @ 3.7 GHz Gigabyte X38-DQ6 4x1 Kingston DDR2 1066 RAM 4x1 WD SATA Hard drives...
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    4870x2 and the 700 watts

    Greetings, I'm giving my wife my trusty good old 8800 GTS 640 and buy my self a new 4870x2 card. The problem is that I'm not sure if I have enough Juice in my PSU unit. My gear has the following components: Gigabyte X38-Dq6 Intel E6850 overclocked to 3.7 4x1 GB kingston DDR2 1066MHz...
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    Gigabyte DS3 ver. 3.3 not detecting USB drives

    Hello all, I've built a new computer with the Gigabyte DS3 ver. 3.3 mobo but I have this very annoying problem, It won't detect my 2 USB toshiba hard drives with generic enclosures though they work fine on all my other computers and laptops!!! My specs of the new PC are: DS3 ver 3.3...
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    Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI overvolting....HELP !

    Hi all, I recieved my Fatal1ty AN8 SLI yesterday and just today i realised that it is overvoltting like hell !! P.S. Voltage are set at default in BIOS but for a reason here are the readings: CPU Voltage is @ 1.42 DDR Voltage @ 2.8 Nforce Voltage @ 1.7 I use BIOS 19 by the way...
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    MSI K8N SLI PLatinum, COLD BOOT

    I have this problem trying to overclock my CPU. First, there is no way I can increase FSB over 240, what ever I do not even one MHZ or the system will not boot and the monitor would never be turn on. I tried increasing the CPU voltage and even choosing CPU multi. of 8.0 and no chance. By the...
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    The Devil rides my PC

    OK first of all read my PC specs. CPU: AMD 64 3000+ Venice Mobo:MSI K8N SLI Platinum RAM: Kingston Value RAM 2 x 512 DDR400 <=====What's wrong VGA: XFX 7800 GT PSU: CodeGen 480X 400W Now I tried to overclock my PC and I'm running my CPU @ 2.16 GHz using FSB 240MHz. Now in the BIOS I...
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    MSI NEO 4 SLI SATA/PATA Boot Problem

    Hi all, I got today an MSI NEO4 SLI plat. with AMD 3000+ as an upgrade for my ABIT IS7 and P4 2 GHZ CPU. I have 2 DVD drives and 2 Hard rives, one of them is SATA that I normally used on my ABIT as The boot drive where I install windows XP on. The other hard drive is a PATA drive that I...
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    Entering the 64bt World soon, Help needed with a Mobo

    Hello all, I'm going to upgrade soon, buying only a new mobo and CPU. First my old PC : CPU intel P4 2.4 @ 3.0 Mobo Abit IS7-e RAm 4 * 256 MB ( 1GB ) kingston valueRAM VGA Gigabyte 6800GT "AGP" Now my first Question is: Since I have 4 Sticks of RAm will they affect the...
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    NV5 + Gigabyte 6800GT = Won't Work !!

    I was checking some info on the NV5 and also looking at some pics that I took for My card when I realised that the NV5 has a 2 pin power plug and the Gigabyte 6800GT has a 3 pin power plug !!!!!!!!! (not standard ) How can I plug the NV 5 power plug to this 3 pin ? Any ideas ? Can I split...
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    MSI 6800GT or gigabyte 6800GT, HELP ASAP

    Hi all, I'm going to buy a new Graphics card tonight or tomorrow morrning. After some research I came up with these two choices: MSI NX6800GT Gigabyte 6800GT with heatpipe Help me chose.:cool:
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    Gigabyte 6800GT heat PIPE !!!

    Is the gigabyte 6800 GT cooler efficient, how do you compare it to other coolers for the nVidia 6800 GT coolers? Is the heat pipe based HSF allow it to run cooler?
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    Gigabyte 6800 GT or Evga 6800 GT

    Hi all, I'm going to buy a new Graphics card to replace my old Herculese 9700np card. So I searched for a sub 400 $ cards and came up with these two. Gigabyte GV-N68T256DH and eVGA 256-A8-N344-AX Now what I'm looking for is a card that overclocks better and generates less...
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    6800GT dual display troubles

    Hi all, I've got a BFG 6800 GT card to use it with my two 19" Dell Monitors. the thing is, the non DVI connector doesn't allow the second monitor to turn on and the displayed message on the non working monitor is : Monotir is in power save mode, activate using pc. and the background...
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    Windows 2003 and High ping in online games

    Hi all I have a problem that doesn?t even make me sleep at night................!!!! When I play online games on windows 2003 (I only play Americas Army) I get huge high ping....some times the ping would jump to 1000+!!!! Any ideas...???? Right now I'm back to windows XP and I can't wait...
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    How to Test in Games ?

    Hi all, Could you please tell me what console commands to you type in the following games in order to check the performance of your System and graphics card? The games are: Quake3 Unreal Tournament Unreal 2 Star wars: KOTOR MAX Payne 2 S. SAM THX
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    Sandra,PC Mark,3Dmark scores, What do you think !!!!

    Greetings to you all, I?ve just completed testing my new over clocked system and I want to share with you some scores. Before that let me state my gear components: ABIT IS7-E Motherboard P4 2.4c @ 3.0GHZ - 1000MHz FSB Kingston HyperX PC3500 (256MB x 2) @ DDR400 working @ 2.8v 2-3-2-5...
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    Is7-E + 2.4C + Hyperx = 3.0GHz so easy !

    Hi all, I'm Back from my Vacation in Alexandria in Egypt and right now I'm in Cairo with my new PC ! Any way I managed to overclock it up to 3.0Ghz from 2.4. Here are my Gear specs : Abit IS-7E MOBO (AWESOME ABIT, ABIT IS AWESOME) Intel P4 2.4C OEM (MALAY CPU) Coolermaster x14 HSF (No thermal...
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    Intel, Bring me back the IAA NOW !!!

    I'm eally pissed that Intel doesn't suport the 865PE+875 Chipsets with the Standard IAA (NO RAID) I can tell that a system is running without IAA. IAA really improves performance, dn't you think !
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    Hercules Prophet 9700 np !

    Hi all, 4 days ago I ogt myslelf a hercules 9700np card. I dind't find much reviews on the net about this card. I need to know some info before starting to fry it ! What brand of memory does it use? How much well it over clock ? Can I flash it with a 9700 pro bios ? THX