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    Helping Building A Gaming PC for a Friend

    Hey thanks for all the input. I forwarded him all the information and he is now going to order from new which I advised him to do so from the beginning. As for the RAM yeah he is only buying 4gb. He is also now going with PSU and Vista hoe that was recommended. As for posting I guess he is...
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    Helping Building A Gaming PC for a Friend

    Introduction: Hey my friend is building his first ever gaming PC as a birthday present to himself. So he wanted to ask me for some help however I have not been in the loop in terms of hardware. I told to him once he was done shopping for his parts to give me his hardware list so I could post on...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    When barely put in the fresh coat of thermal paste the temperature was at 50c then went back to 65c. What I am started to realize is mostly during the day the computer keeps freezing won't even turn on most of the time. My room gets pretty hot during the day maybe in the high 80's. But today at...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: brencat <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Maric Finally the CPU temperature was at 63C/145F The MOBO temperature was at 38C/100F I checked the heatsink fan and it was still spinnng strong. So I highly doubt those...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: brencat Oi...sorry to hear that Maric. I'm starting to wonder if your CPU isn't overheating. You mentioned that the mobo quickly shut down shortly after one of your reboots. That could have been the A7N8X's CPU overheat protection kicking...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    Hey guys I finally got my new PSU and I am sorry to say it didn't fix the problem. Forty-five minutes with the new PSU while doing some light internet surfing it froze again. So what I did is I took out the 2 RAM sticks - 1 Corsair ValueSelect 512MB and a OCZ Premier 512MB. I left in the 1GB...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    Do you think this PSU would do well with my desktop? http://www.xpcgear.com/en431watpows.html Update: I just went ahead and order it. Also yeah I messed up I do have 2 x 512 and I believe 1x 1000 of ram. I highly doubt it is the ram since when it freezes it doesn't want to post the MOBO...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Thoroughbred 2.167GHz Socket A 4 80mm Fans 2 in the front 2 in the back Thermaltake Silent PurePower W0009R ATX12V 420W Power Supply HIS Hightech ICE98-2H-ZAM Radeon 9800PRO 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Crucial 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM...
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    ASUS A7N8X Freezing / Best Replacement?

    Anyways just recently the last few months my computer has been freezing sporadically during light computer use. It would do it every so often maybe like once a week so I kind of just ignored it. However now it's been freezing almost once or twice a day. After it freezes it sometimes doesn't even...