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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    Turned off sleep mode on monitor and left the pc on all night and it didn't lock up. Weird issue of my new pc taking 52 seconds a frame on the exact same F@H WU that my s939 X2 4800+ (@2.71Ghz) was doing in 22 seconds a frame for that WU. When I got up in the morning I saw my pc was alive and...
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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    That's what I'm starting to think, I'll try to change the Vista settings to not power down my monitor and see if I have success with that. It's a pain right now because I have one monitor and 2 pc's, I'm waiting on a second monitor cable from Newegg to make it a little easier lol.
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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    My monitor is set to sleep after 20 minutes but I have sleep/standby for my pc disabled, and disabled hibernate as well.
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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    Rig is stable through 3DMark06 and normal usage so I left F@H on last night and went to bed. When I got up it was frozen again, montior was sleeping and pc was running but wasn't responding to anything so had to hard shutdown and restart. I reopened F@H and my pc only got through 400/5000 of the...
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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    As much as we all love to argue about personal preference, I don't have the patience for that now so I'll take a rain check lol. Well after 11 hours of Memtest without any errors, I booted up Vista, disabled nV raid in startup, dl'ed new Silicon Image SATA drivers and rebooted. Ran some...
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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    >87% Efficiency while using a third of it. Leaves plenty of room for growth too.
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    Vista Randomly Locks Up

    Brand new rig I just built, AMD X2 6000+ water cooled, ASUS Crosshair, Mushkin 2X2GB DDR2-800 4-3-3-10 2T, EVGA 8800 Ultra Superclocked, Thermaltake ToughPower 1200W PSU. Vista will just randomly lock up, completely freezing. Reinstalled Vista twice already, making sure to only install Vista...
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    BFG 8800 GTX OC vs. Diamond HD 2900 XT 1 GB mini-review

    Well I'm probably going to end up with the green team again, but I'm going to get an evga 8800Ultra Superclocked in about a month and liquid cool it. Was hoping the HD2900xt would have been a better bang for the buck but I always use full AA/AF settings on my games so seeing the problems that...
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    BFG 8800 GTX OC vs. Diamond HD 2900 XT 1 GB mini-review

    Thanks for all your hard work n7! I've been happy with my evga 7950GT KO Superclocked cards in SLi cooled by Thermalright HR-03's (676/1602 max clocks), but my new system will either be 8800 or 2900 based X2 6000+ rig, still haven't decided that part lol. Now if you were to liquid cool both...
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    New 24-inch Viewsonic VX2435wm is a P-MVA panel

    Well reviews are starting to pop up, and it seems it has ghosting issues according to one review. http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/8156/103/ Now it looks like the 24" for me is the BenQ FP241W, has the HDMI input and great reviews from all over. The NEC LCD2470WNX looks like a great 24"...
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    New 24-inch Viewsonic VX2435wm is a P-MVA panel

    I have a ViewSonic VX922 and I like it, but looking at going to the VX2435wm because I want a 24" widescreen lcd for the new rig I'm building, partially because of the HDMI inputs and the fact that I'll probably be picking up Radeon HD2900XTX's when available. Not sure if this is the best...
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    X2 4800+ @2.8Ghz but now getting errors

    stock multi is 12X, I have it 12 X 235= 2.82Ghz = Max stable clock so far. HT is at 705. Memclock at 183, frequency about 217, 3-3-3-6 1T. Up to 9430 on 3DMark06 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=1489548 but I'd like to be able to hit the 3.0Ghz mark. Idles about 34c right now, full...
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    X2 4800+ @2.8Ghz but now getting errors

    "FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.498004012, expected less than 0.4" was the error after applying the settings above @3Ghz. My pc is air cooled, I just installed my Ultra 120 this weekend and retired my old XP-120. I run a total of 10 fans in my case so it has plenty of air movement. It never runs 24...
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    X2 4800+ @2.8Ghz but now getting errors

    1.5v cpu 3.0v ram(max within warranty). Well it's same Toledo core, revision, stepping, model, etc as your opty, as far as that CCBBE whatever I have no clue lol. Max stable I can get her right now is 2.82 with memclock at 183 3-3-3-6 2T timings. Anything faster seems to be a wash, unless I just...
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    X2 4800+ @2.8Ghz but now getting errors

    Trying to get to 3Ghz, can get there but absolutely no stability even with the ram at 166. 12 x 250= 3Ghz ram=200 but instant errors with Orthos/Prime95. It's too bad, temps aren't even an issue.
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    X2 4800+ @2.8Ghz but now getting errors

    Good call, tried it at 183 and going good so far, 10 minutes of Orthos and counting. Don't understand why at 2.7 I could run my memory at 216 memclock and get a 245.5 frequency but @ 2.8 couldn't run it at 200 for a 234 frequency.
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    X2 4800+ @2.8Ghz but now getting errors

    Everything is fine stressing cpu only, but using cpu/ram stress I get "FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4" occurs after about 2 minutes, says look in txt file but there isn't one lol. Memory is OCZ Platinum XTC DDR400 1GB X 2, have it at 2.95v 3-4-4-8 2T timings (motherboard...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 review!

    My Ultra 120 rocks, have my X2 4800+ at 2.75Ghz right now, going for 2.8Ghz, but peaks at about 47c during 2 instances of Orthos. It was a pain to get that second screw started installing it, but I got good results the minute I fired my pc back up. I liked my XP-120 but this thing rocks. For a...
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    Intel Suffers, AMD Surges In 2006

    Still an AMD/ATI product nevertheless....
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    3dmark06 Question

    My scores are always right around 9000, and theres no difference in cpu score for me going from 2.6Ghz to 2.7Ghz(1987ish), rather disappointing. Current card clocks are 650/775(1550). Just having problems after running 3DMark06 and submitting my results, it's like my browser (FireFox) hits a...
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    Intel Suffers, AMD Surges In 2006

    Soon enough with the launch of Barcelona and chips to follow that we'll see how AMD's long term strategy plays out. Personally I believe they'll be fine, providing their 65nm chips (R600 included http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38292 ) are as good as we all think they'll be...
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    thermaltake 120 ultra and MB damage

    It's not all that heavy, unlike a few copper units out there. I just installed mine today and it's only a small amount heavier than my XP-120 it replaced. The only thing is it was a pain in the monkey brains to get the second screw started in my 939 setup. Temps are awsome, ran 2 instances of...
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    Tom's Hardware in AMD's Pocket

    The only thing Tom is a fanboy of is misguided information! Long live fanboys!
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    My first oc with the tuniq 120. (e6600 w/screenshot)

    Good clocks buddy! Just got my Ultra120 installed in my pc and have 2 instances of Orthos running and my X2 4800+(939 Toledo) oc'ed to 2.7Ghz and my temps won't go above 27c, a huge improvement over my XP-120. Dropped my multiplier to 10 and my bus speed up to 270 at stock 1.4v. Only thing that...
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    PC Wizard2007 and Everest don't see SLI

    Wow, no hits... guess I'm SOL!
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 review!

    I was also looking at the TT but the slimmer Ultra 120 is a better fit for me. As for fans http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12tfexhisp.html this was a fan I used on my XP-120 when I got it, but it was just too much noise after a while. Cooling was superior, but I thought my PC was gonna take...
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    Thermalright IFX-14

    Put that on your CPU and cut a long hole across your case for a 10000BTU air conditioner input and you'll be set!
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    Ultra Carbon Fiber case

    Well if they use carbon fiber for skidplates on dirtbikes, I think it'll make an awsome pc case. That would survive a lan party or two and be lightweight as well, unless you have a massive lead block with fins for a heatsink lol. Just wondering how silent it would be......
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    Case Suggestions Appreciated

    Check out Thermaltake Kandlaf/Armor series, I love these cases. http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/Chassis/fulltower/full_index.asp Check out the Eureka as well, I'm about to do a little research on that myself right now. Any cases recommended above are fine choices as well, I'm just partial...
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    PC Wizard2007 and Everest don't see SLI

    Well I run XP Pro x64 and nothing seems to recognize SLI. PC Wizard 2007 does show both cards and pretty accurate clocks (oc'ed using RivaTuner) but says SLI isn't enabled. Even 3DMark06 doesn't see SLI even though my score show it is working (max of 9061, stable average of 8929-->668/1564...
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    Looks like a new air cooling king has been crowned - Ultra-120+

    Well I'm swapping my XP-120 out with an Ultra 120, I would have waited seeing as the next day I see reviews for the Ultra 120 Plus(or extreme) pop up. Now I've seen a new one. http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_ifx14.htm Check that out! The XP-120 cools my chipset and ram rather...
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    installed my ultra 120..don't know if its working good

    AS5 is a little dark for that, unless they have a clear version out I don't think I'm gonna be reading numbers through it..... I do use the razor blade method, but carefully. Leaving scrapes on your cpu won't help matters any. OEM's love the Boston creme donut effect lol.
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    Case that holds about 8 hard drives and cools them properly?

    I have a Thermaltake Kandalf with 2 iCAGEs for my 5 HD's. So 6 total with those 2, and the drive cage that goes in front of the PSU is another 3, and they also have a bay insert that adds another HD slot. Then you still have room for your rom's and floppy on top of that (11 total drive bays in...
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    installed my ultra 120..don't know if its working good

    Yes that can happen, I've been there. I remember the first time I used thermal compound, it spooged out between the cpu and hs like someone sat on a boston creme donut LOL.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

    Well I just ordered a Thermalright Ultra 120 last week and it'll be here today. Go figure a newer and better version comes out! Not quite as bad as spending $630 on an AMD X2 4800+ then having it's price get cut in half a month later lol.... So yeah, this will be my 3rd Thermalright heatsink...
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    Thermalright: HR-01

    Nice cooler, first I've read of someone putting fans on it. If that isn't cool enough, this should push some air for ya. http://www.tcf.com/TCFBlower/products/industrial/hrt.htm :D
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    Thermalright HR-03 PLUS for the 8800 series cards

    http://www.evga.com/support/knowledgebase/ Heres the answer your looking for. BTW.... EVGA has the fastest 8800GTX in their ACS3 version, but you'd easily hit those marks with the HR-03, and remain quieter too!
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    Newbie's Guide To WaterCooling

    Well I'm air cooled to the max, but I must give this a big STICKY for when I build my next rig (quad core 65nm AMD anyone?) because I will be going with liquid cooling then. In case I forgot, STICKY!
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    Thermalright HR-03 PLUS for the 8800 series cards

    Warranty is still good as long as you put stock heatsinks back on after you fry the card because you installed the HR-03 wrong LOL. I have 2 of the original HR-03's on my 7950's and they're awsome! Can't go wrong with these even if they were the same cooler with a different adapter, but they're...