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I currently have a 2500K, MSI P67-C43, 8 gigs of gskill DDR3, and an 8800GT on a Corsair 550VX PSU. It's also powering two 120mm fans, three SATA drives, and an audio card. I want to upgrade my GPU to an HD6850 or 6870 but I want to make sure that my current PSU will be able to handle it. Can...

I'm currently using an old 8800GT with my new 2500K, 8gigs DDR3, and MSI P67A-C43. I held off on buying a new video card when I updated (2 months ago) because I only really care about playing Skyrim and Diablo 3. I was just looking at video cards and found this HD6850 on Amazon. I have Prime and...

I'm looking for a new monitor to use with my current 21.5" LCD display. It most likely will not be my main monitor so I'm hoping to spend only about $130 on it. What are the best monitors in the 21-23" (or even 19" I guess) range for around this price? Thanks!

I'm currently trying to decide between two monitors to pair with a 21.5" display. This monitor on Newegg seems really nice and comes to 171.59 (plus an additional 20$ rebate) shipped. This refurbished ViewSonic monitor comes to 139.09 shipped. I use my monitors for watching movies...

I just got one of my monitors (a 6 year old 17" LCD) out of storage, where it has been for about 3 months, and now it cannot display any blue. The screen appears yellow-green and when I try to do color correction changing the blue amount has no effect. When I try to view something blue on the...

About a month ago I built a new 2500K system with a MSI P67A-C43. In Speedfan there's a reading called "Temp2" that reaches very, very high temperatures. Playing CS:Source it apparently hit 127C and now it's idling around 90C... Ambient is about 75F and airflow isn't bad at all. Does anyone know...

Yesterday I switched from a E6750 with Gigabyte DS3 and 2 gigs Crucial Ballistix to a 2500K with MSI P67A-C43 and 8 gigs G-Skill Ripjaws. I did not initially reformat my windows partition with the new hardware. At first, things seemed to work acceptably. I was trying to get all my drivers taken...

I just put together a new 2500K system with a MSI P67A-C43 today. Everything seems to be working, except the voltages I'm seeing in Speedfan seem to be really off. I noticed something similar with my previous build, which used the same power supply. Is this a sign of a major problem or are the...

I'm putting together a new 2500k system and the motherboard is the only thing I'm not sure about. I'm getting the 2500k+mobo combo at Microcenter in the next couple days. The motherboard must have at least 1 PCI slot but I don't care about SLI/firewire/onboard sound/most other features. I just...

The main reason I'm looking to upgrade is that my current system can't handle the multi-tasking I do. I often have photoshop, matlab, lots of browser windows, excel, and some word documents going at once and my current system isn't cutting it. I have an E6750 at stock on a DS3 with an 8800GT and...

I recently rebuilt my computer with a Gigabyte DS3L and installed Vista32bit on a 200gb IDE drive. I also have a 250gb SATA drive that I put some files on that I wanted to save. After rebuilding, I connected the SATA drive but could not access it. The drive shows up in the BIOS, device...

I recently rebuilt with a Gigabyte DS3L and installed vista 32bit on a reformatted 200gb ide drive. I put a lot of files on my second SATA 250gb drive so that I could copy back the files after the format. I reinstalled the SATA drive, and it shows up in the device manager, in the BIOS, and in...

Bought this RAM a while ago and never used it. When I first bought it, I opened it because I thought that I would be using it and Ballistix wrapper that goes around plastic case is a little torn. The RAM was never used and was only outside of the plastic case for a day or so. If anyone...

About a month ago I started to notice that my computer would take an extremely long time to go through startup. The few times I have timed it it has taken in excess of eleven minutes. Though the startup takes so long, shutdown is a very quick process and I do not notice a great difference in...

I have this cheap multimeter from Radioshack and it has been working well for about six months. Yesterday when I was using it, it suddenly stopped measuring voltages, so I tried to measure a few resistors and nothing happened except for random numbers like 5.00 and 10.00 flashing on the...

I was at Radioshack looking for a multiswitch to split my satellite signal so I could have two different tuners on two different channels. I asked the guy there if Radioshack carried one I was looking for, and he pointed me to this splitter. I was pretty sure that to watch DirecTV on two...

I use my PVR-150 to record shows at the max MPEG2 quality which uses a bitrate of about 11500. Then I use VideoReDo to remove all the commercials and save the altered show as a .mpg Now, I want to change that bitrate to 8,000 to save space when I burn them to DVDs and any rate over that is...

I just received my USB-UIRT and I am trying to use it to control my satellite receiver. I know that I need to set up actions in Girder to learn the buttons off the receiver remote. I installed the latest USB-UIRT plugin, and enabled it in the plugins tab, but it does not show up in the actions...

I have not been able to find any IR codes for this DirecTV satellite receiver. Has anyone had any experience working with this receiver or read about it anywhere? Also, where is the area where I should stick the emitter to the satellite receiver?

I just happened to be touching my heatsink to see how hot it was and my finger accidentally hit the fan. I then noticed a new noise and took out my video card to investigate. My finger took off two of the fan blades on the Zalman cooler and now it vibrates as it runs. As a result, my video...

My room has my computer and a small TV with DirecTV satellite. What I want to do is get a TV Tuner card so I can record programs on my computer. I am sure I could just buy a TV Tuner card and hook the DirecTV box up to it to record to my computer. However, is there any way that I could record...

Corsair XMS(512x2) PC3200 TCC5 The only little imperfections are the two scratches from the origional Newegg shipping. I have never tried overclocking them over about 10mhz, so while I do not know their full potential, they have not been exposed to higher voltages and speeds. However, they...

I have some Corsair XMS PC3200 memory and I think it might be the source of the BSODs and freezes I have had in the past. When my timings are at 3-3-3-8, the computer is relatively stable with only a few BSODs over a few weeks. When I change the timings to 2.5-3-3-6 as is advertised on Newegg...

I just bought this Panaflo to use as a fan for my XP-90. Unfortunately, the fan doesn't apparrently have a speed controller, so my motherboard freaks out every time I start the computer, and the fan is quite loud at full speed. Is there any way I could possibly fix this problem other than...

I've had this power supply for a few weeks after RMAing a faulty PSU of the same make. I've been getting a lot of BSODs both now and before my other power supply died. I was looking at my voltages, and the 12V rail fluctuates between 11.491 and 11.551. When under full load, however, the...

I wanted to know what everyone thought of this cooler/fan controller. I can get it for $13 and I wanted to know if it was worth it. I don't really need the HDD cooler part, but the fan controllers would be nice and it's very cheap. Thanks. Cool Drive 4

I've had a 92mm Zalman fan cooling my XP-90 for a few months now and for the last few days, my motherboard has given me "CPU Fan Error" every time I start up. I thought it might just be a connection problem, as the fan was still spinning. This morning when I started my computer, the fan made a...

Currently, I have 512x2 Corsair XMS RAM, and I am thinking of upgrading. I can either buy another gig of this RAM for about $100 off Newegg, or sell my current pair for a little less than $100 on Ebay. If I sold my current RAM, I could buy a nice set of 1Gbx2 for $220-250. So is it worth it...

I've had this power supply for less than a year and have had very few noticable problems. All of a sudden, my computer would not start yesterday morning. There was no power to the motherboard and the LED was not on. I tried the faulty power supply in another computer, and it did not work, so...

I currently have a gig of this RAM and I get good frame rates in games with my overclocked 6800GT and 3200+ Winchester. If anyone has any experience with upgrading to two gigs from one and what the benefits are, please tell me. I am trying to decide whether or not it is worth it to buy another...

I have the heatsink seen here My temps are 34 idle/ 43 load while at stock speeds on my 3200+ Winchester. I overclocked it when I first got it about 9 months ago, and want to overclock it again as programs get more demanding. With my current idle and load temperatures, I think it may get too...

I just built my first CMoy and there are a few problems. I am using everything from Tangent's list except for the 10K pot, 100K resistors, and his Op AMP. Instead, I am using a 100K Radioshack pot, 1M resistors for the pot, and a TL082 Dual Op AMP. When I turn it on, I only hear sound from...

I installed the Battlefield 2 Demo and the Nvidia drivers that came with it because mine were older. Then, when I tried to start Chronicles of Riddick, I got an error saying I needed support for OpenGL 1.3 even though I could play it before with my 6800GT. Next, I tried to get the newest...

Back at the beginning of December I bought this power supply, http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-153-007&depa=0, (Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W). I first noticed a change in pitch of one of the fans in my case and then narrowed it down to the power supply. The...

I have an old one of these motherboards with a 333MHZ K6. Does anyone have any experience with this motherboard or know where I can get a temp. monitoring program that supports it?

A few more screenshots are on Gamespy now and they look amazing. http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/702/702491/img_2533522.html That one looks especially good...

I got my Winchester 3200+ up to 250x10 and it was stable. On my motherboard, Asus K8V Deluxe, it automatically switches the CPU:RAM ratio when it hits a certain point if you leave it at default. I found the manual way to change the ratio and at first tried to run it at 2:1. The computer...

Last night I started overclocking my Winchester 3200+ with my Asus A8V Deluxe and the HSF seen here http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-106-038&depa=0 At first I tried to use the AI overclocking that comes with my motherboard, but for just a 100MHZ increase it brought...

I just ran 3DMark05 on my new machine and scored right around 2000 both times. This is very low for my system and I have installed the nVidia drivers. AMD S939 3200+ eVGA 6800GT (512x2) Corsair XMS Series RAM ASUS K8V Deluxe Mobo

I just built my first computer and got it to POST ok. On one of the screens it says Serial_CH0: Master No Device and Serial_CH1: Master No Device so it isn't detecting my hard drive. The IDE cables are in the right places and I don't know what I need to do...