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    How to turn a Geforce 8400M G into a 8400M GS?

    Hi, my laptop is equipped with a Geforce 8400M G video card, wich is essencially equal to the 8400M GS, with the same 16 stream processors, but with only 4 ROP's instead of the 8 of the GS. I wondered if the G is really made only with 4 ROPs or if it's a GS with half of the ROPs disabled...
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    How much voltage is too much

    Thanks for your replies. I had already upped the memory and fsb voltages, but that doesn't help either. Given your oppinions, I think I won't buy the Thermalright and stick with my Big Typhoon. I will probably leave it at 3.0ghz, originally I wanted more because I didn't want to see my new...
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    How much voltage is too much

    Hi, I have a B3 stepping Core 2 Quad Q6600 running on a Asus P5B-E with a Thermaltake Big Typhoon. I've tried a lot of various different overclocking settings, but I would need some advice to choose the best one. Here are the stable settings I managed to find so far: 3.0ghz @ 1.400v -...
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    Was this a good deal? Could it give a 8800GTS 320 a good fight?

    Hi, I had a Sapphire x1950pro Ultimate Silent and wanted to trade it for a superior performance card. I was about to buy a 8800GTS 320mb for around 270$ when I found a 7950 GX2 for just 150$. It felt it was a deal too good to let it pass, so I bought it. Besides the obvious lack of DX10...
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    Will my PSU be able to handle this?

    In fact it's not that L&C, but rather a german-based (I think) company called LC Power that is well-known in Europe for its quality and reliability. Actually, I've found that it surprisingly is more powerful than some 650W from other cheaper brands. For example, my 550W-only PSU has a total...
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    Will my PSU be able to handle this?

    Hi, I have a 550W LC Power PSU serving my PC. It has 18A in the 12v rails. Untill now I was running without problems my PC with the following specs: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (B3) @ 3.33 GHz ATI Radeon x1950 Pro 2x Samsung 400gb SATA-II in RAID-0 But now I've sold the x1950Pro and got a...
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    Switch Pentium 4 630 for a Celeron D 356

    His motherboard is the popular Asrock 775Dual-VSTA. Given the budget, perhaps I should buy him a 65nm Cedar Mill, because he really doesn't want to spend more than 60$ on the CPU.
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    Switch Pentium 4 630 for a Celeron D 356

    Hi. My brother's PC has a P4 630 (3.0 GHz) Prescott with 2 mb L2 cache. Since he complains a lot about the high temperatures, I thought it could be a good idea to switch it for a Celeron D 356 (3.33 GHz). First of all, the Celeron is made on 65nm technology whereas the P4 is made in 90nm...
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    RAID 0 with more than 2 drives

    Hi, My computer has two Hitachi 7K160 (the 1-platter sibbling of the 7K500) SATA-II drives in RAID 0 configuration. It provides top-notch performance (in the 7200rpm realm, only the new 7K1000 in RAID 0 beats it) and I'm very satisfied with it, but now I need more disk space. I wonder if...
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    Vista asks for drivers for USB flash disks ("pens")

    Hi there, I've got an annoying problem since I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my PC. When I insert a USB flash pen, or other device that usually doesn't require any drivers (at least it's how it worked in XP), it asks me for a driver. I tell him to search automatically for a driver to...
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    Little problem overclocking an E6300

    Sorry, it was a typo, the actual voltage is 1.4625v. I tried with 1.4750 and above and it still had the same problem. I guess it's the problem is not in the CPU, because it can go up to 3.47 GHz and I suspect that with high-end memory it could go even further. Should I spend 8$ on RAM...
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    Little problem overclocking an E6300

    Hello, I've got an E6300 on an Asus P5B-E motherboard and an aftermarket cooling solution, a Thermaltake Big Typhoon (coupled with a more efective fan than the original one). I used to have 1gb of DDR-2 800 A-Data Vitesta RAM, wich could only clock up to 429 MHz (858 DDR), so my overclock was...
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    Problem with warm boot

    Hi there. I've got a Gigabyte GA-8I945P-G motherboard, based on the Intel 945P chipset. I've a Pentium D 915 CPU (2.8 GHz) overclocked stable at 4.0 GHz, and 1 DIMM of DDR-2 SDRAM 667 MHz. My problem is: if I set the memory divider to 1.5 (memory working at 430 MHz), everything works...
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    Maxtor HDD with burned PCB - Question

    Hi there. I've got a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA-150 non-ROHS compliant 300 Gb hard disk, model 6B300S0. The drive doesn't work because the PCB is damaged (has a burned chip). I've searched for a PCB for my hard disk, but I couldn't find one for my exact drive. However, I found PCBs for 2...
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    Having locks and delays while playing videos

    Hi there, Some days ago my computer started to behave strangely when playing videos, especially high-res DivX full motion video. Sometimes it slows down and delays the playback, or even locks for a few seconds before resuming normal playback. It's behaving as if the CPU is too busy or not...
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    Radeon X850XT PE vs GeForce 7600GT

    Hi there, I'm about to buy a video card on eBay today to replace my Geforce 6800 and I have these two options: Geforce 7600 GT: Pros: - It's a new card, not an used one - It's a more modern card and supports Shader Model 3.0 - It draws less power than the X850 XT Cons: - Not as fast...
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    See framerate in Quake III Arena

    What must I do to see the framerate in Quake III?:confused: