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What happens when you set your affinity to one CPU?

I ‘have’ a similar problem with corrupt files with my A8N SLI Premium. Every time I download something on the Nforce PCIe NIC it corrupts it! Doesn’t matter what it is when I try to download a program it will say its corrupt and I need to try again but when I unplug the cable and plug it into...

I installed the patch on my 4200+ system and it seems to have solved the stuttering in BF2. Its strange, BF2 would run fine after a fresh reboot for a couple of hours then slowly get real choppy and stutter so I would have to alt+tab out of the game and set the affinity to one core and it ran...

Will that work on Windows XP SP2?

Hey guys, I am having a problem keeping BF2 set to CPU0 in the task manager. When I had BF2 1.02 I went in to the task manager to set the program to CPU0 instead of CPU0 and 1. and I never had to alt-tab out again and set it it always stayed set at CPU0 no matter what but since I updated the...

Have you tried going to the hard drive manufactures website and downloading their bootable setup utility to format the drive?

I installed my XP-120 tonight on my Asus A8N premium and as people have said it was hard to do. The only problem is that when I was trying to get it clamped down one side of it would pop up off of the CPU. Will that affect the performance of the heatsink by letting air pockets in? The first time...

What is the ‘pwr_fan’ connector on this motherboard for?

How to you apply artic silver Ceramique to an X2 ? I was curious because on their website it shows what it looks like after it is applied and ‘squished’ with the heatsink and it also shows what the CPU core looks like when the heat spreader is off. Does an X2 have 2 cores under the heat...

Thanks for all your help guys. I have a Thermaltake Armor series case with two 120mm fans and two 90mm fans and an XP-120 on the CPU with a Panaflo fan on it. Does clocking my cpu higher mean clocking other components higher as well? I have read that I need to have my HDD’s plugged into the 3rd...

Will overclocking my X2 3800+ two hundred more MHz hurt my system and components in the short term or long term? I would like to bump it up 200MHz to make it a 4200+ but I don’t want to hurt my system. I know people do it all the time but this system is a big investment for me and I will...

I need some opinions. I’m about to buy a 250GB SATA HDD and I need help deciding between the Seagate 7200.8 and the Maxtor DiamondMax 10. I am leaning towards the Maxtor because of the fact it has 16mb Buffer and it is SATAII, which I probably wont use but makes it more future proof than the...

I currently have a 3700+ with a Geforce 7800gtx and 2x1024 sticks of Corsair in dual channel mode. Would it be better for me to run it at 2GB in single channel mode in BF2? Would I take a performance hit taking my ram out of dual channel?

Yes I have XP Pro. Those X2 3800+ benchmarks on sharkyextreme are a little disappointing gaming wise even though I would most likely not be playing at 1024x768 and would oc it 200mhz. still deciding if its worth $100-$150 extra although dual core is nice for general desktop use.