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    New PC build, less then $1500 if possible.

    I know I didnt mention it in the first post, but im probably going to keep the opticals from my current machine. They both work ( standard dvd drive, and a dvd-r) and I dont much see a compelling reason to go for blu-ray burning just yet.
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    New PC build, less then $1500 if possible.

    With that bundle (which was actually the only bundle with that cpu iirc) the boards only about $230 ish, which is only about $80 more then the average z77 ($150 ish), considering all the other features (aside from the wifi, the option for adding a thunderbolt daughter board, the crapload of usb3...
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    New PC build, less then $1500 if possible.

    Ok, so this is what ive come up with sofar for the build.. Intel core i5-3570 + Asus p8z77-v deluxe combo $480 OCZ zt series 750 watt psu $90 Rosewill Thor v2 case $120 G.skill ripjaws x series 16 gb kitt (2x 8gb) $125 OCZ agility 3 120gb ssd $105 (with a $15 mall in rebate)...
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    New PC build, less then $1500 if possible.

    Thanks for the replies guys. Id been looking at that mid range pc build thread and its been helpful. Using that as a starting point for some of my selectrions (cpu namely), ive got a few questions still before ive got a full list together. 1) When it comes to power supplies ive noticed sever...
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    New PC build, less then $1500 if possible.

    Hi all, first time i've logged in here in a while. Looking to build a reasonable gaming machine to replace an aging core2duo rig, and ill admit I havent been keeping up with current tech like I used to. Last PC ive built from scratch was 6 or7 odd years ago. Now for some details on what im...
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    I may try that tomorrow then. I really do hate problems you cant consistantly reproduce. Can never tell when you fixed the damn problem, go for hours without any issue thinking its fixed and then BAM resurfaces out of the blue. Case in point its been 4 hours now since the last bit of...
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Anyone else have any ideas? Id rather not have to send this back and be stuck without a pc for yet another 2 weeks. heh.
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Well, the overclocking solution didnt solve the problem. Artifacted on me anyway about 5 minutes after i made my last post. So if the clock speed isnt the issue what else could be? Power to the card? Afterburner is listing it at 1087 mV.
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    After having left it on for about an hour and a half at the full speed at 40% fan, it ended up sitting about about 45c on idle. Turned auto fan back on and temp rose to about 53c pretty much instantly, with the fan staying at about 24%. So am i to expect full load temps at idle now because...
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Thanks for the help, that did it. Running at full speed all the time now at about 43c while web browsing at 40% fixed fan rate. Is that normal for this situation or should i be letting the fan control its own speed? Or raising the fixed level?
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    I was wrong. Apparently i was lucky last night, as the machine artifacted in record time when i booted up this morning. So i guess its not power cable issues. Downloaded msi afterburner and set it to 768 core (smallest increment i could) but its not forcing the card to stay at the ful clock...
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Well, i guess the switch up of the power cables did it, almost 4 and a half hours now with no artifacting at the factory oc with the fan set to 40%. Odd that something so trivial like an 8 pin to 6 pin adapter would do it. Unless of course im just being lucky right now, or the error requires...
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Ok, so i tried downclocking the memory back to the 1000 default of the 5850s, and it still artifacted out after about an hour, hour and a half. *kim, the 8pin i was using is one of the two 8pin pcie cables that come with that psu, not the 8 pin power cable. I used that one 8 pin originally...
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    It only seems to effect open windows and anything you can rename (ie icons on the desktop) but not the desktop itself or the taskbar or tops of the windows.
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Its a thermaltake toughpower 850w, and yes ive got a normal 6pin and an 8 pin going into an adapter for 6pin, would that cause the problem? Its been happening at idle. Only had it under load once sofar and it hadnt happened there. And im using the newest drivers.
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    Random visial artifacting with xfx 5850 black edition

    Ok, so i just installed my brand new xfx 5850 black edition video card (runs 765 core 1125 memory stock) and after a random ammount of time ( i cant seem to replicate it in the same ammount of time no matter what i do) i get full screen artifacting on the desktop. At first i thought it...
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    Meltdown

    Anyone? Looking around newegg and zzf, looks like i could get a 5850 for about $300. Judging from the recent reviews on anandtech here, that card should be able to best the 9800 sli in their best games (heavy sli optimization) by a bit, and fairly significantly in everything else. Any opinions...
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    Meltdown

    Its not the motherboard. I had a second machine that had the same motherboard, cpu and powersupply. Took the motherboard and cpu from that one (was running as of this morning) and transplanted into the dead one. Using said 8800 gt cards and the 8 gigs of ram with the second mobo/cpu resulted in...
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    Meltdown

    Ok, so apparently last night both of the 8800 GT cards i had in my machine decided to go on strike, permanently. How it happened or why, i dunno, the machine worked flawlessly the last time it had been used, a day or so back. Tried to boot up this morning only to get met with an alarm beep...
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    Xp 64-bit compatible printers?

    This is the error that the hp software throws at me when i tried to run the installation. "This file does not exist and is required for installation to continue. Click continue to proceed at your own risk or ensure the file exists before continuing installation. File Name...
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    Xp 64-bit compatible printers?

    Ive tried reinstalling the drivers for the motherboard (evga 780i) using both the driver cd that came with it and the most recent nforce drivers off the nvidia website. No dice. Besides that ive got several other usb devices connected and not one of them has any issues. Also one of the other pcs...
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    Xp 64-bit compatible printers?

    Ive got an hp photosmart 2610 all in one printer. Used to have it directly connected to the xp64 machine (usb) with the rest of the pcs on my network connecting threw it and it worked just fine. Till a month or two back when i had a hard drive failure on it and had to reformat. Now no matter...
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    Printers that work without issue on xp64?

    For whatever reason, after a reformat (dead hard drive) i cant get my HP photosmart 2610 to install. Keeps giving me errors regarding a supposedly missing usbhub.sys driver (incase it matters, no im not using a usb hub, just one of the 6 built in onboard ports on my evga 780i mobo). Honestly...
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    Hard drive and memory weirdness

    Yeah i have backups of everything of importance on that drive, just wanted confirmation that i should be looking at a replacement rather then some sort of software fix, guess that answers that :/ On a side note, ive noticed something strange with the first of the two pcs. Namely in that it...
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    Hard drive and memory weirdness

    Just realised something. both machines each have a 750gig external wd mybook usb 2.0 hard drive attached for storage. Now ive had one attached to the first machine for years without issue, but until the other day when i had to replace the primary hard drive (the dead raptor) and reinstall...
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    Hard drive and memory weirdness

    Ok, but everything is running at stock speeds, so why would i need to mess with the voltage and timings of the memory past what everything defaults to in bios? Besides, if that were my problem wouldnt it have manifested right away rather then way down the line? Anyways at this point my main...
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    Hard drive and memory weirdness

    Ok, i didnt see any mention of this on the main faq threads, so here goes. Ive got two pcs atm, both of which are giving me harddrive issues this past two weeks. The first one core2duo e8400 4 gigs ocz ddr2 800 (formerly 2 gigs) evga 780i motherboard pair of 7800 gtx in sli wd...