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I have two identical 256GB Crucial M4 drives that are about 3.5 years old. The OS one started throwing SMART errors last week indicating that the drive's life is nearing its end: The identical other drive (I have my games on it) shows almost no wear at all: The Average Block-Erase Count...

Hey guys, I've been having some strange problems (artifacting, flashing, blank screens for a few seconds etc) and I suspected it was my GTX570 but I'm now thinking it might be the PSU based on the numbers I'm seeing from SpeedFan. Specs: MSI P55-GD55 i7 860 @ 4.0Ghz 4GB Corsair Dominator 1600...

I got my EVGA 570 today... I'm getting random crashes in several games with it. My PSU is the Corsair HX 620W... I'm worried this might too low for it and that's the cause. Rest of the system: MSI P55-GD65 mobo i7 860 OCed @ 3.8GHz, 1.35v 4GB Corsair DDR3 1600 WD Caviar Black 1TB HD WD Caviar...

Hi all, I bought a new mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade at Fry's last night and I'm having some issues - wondering if anyone else has seen this. Everything looked ok last night after I built it and got Win7 installed. Installed all my apps and then set an O&O Complete/Name defrag to run while I went...

I'm building a system for a co-worker out of state who has two 30" Apple Cinema Displays. Do I basically need to do something like Crossfire 4870X2's to realistically be able to drive both of those at native resolution? The primary application is going to be Flight Simulator X (we're both...

Just brought home a VisionTek 4870 from Fry's tonight and I'm already having a major issue. Install went perfectly in Vista x64 but I can't even get the 8.8 driver installed in XP Pro 32 bit, it's hanging at the part where it installs the WDM stuff. I have an "Unknown" device in Device...

I'm gonna upgrade my single 8800GT this week to either a single 4870 or twin 4850s. Is it generally correct that two 4850s are faster than a single 4870? Is the ASUS one pretty much the best because it can control the fan independently of hacking CCC profiles etc? Thanks, Ryan

I'm officially stumped here after trying a bunch of things: We have a LAN, everything connected to a Buffalo wireless router running the Tomato firmware. All the computers on the network can see each other in My Network Places except for one of our roommate's desktop system, which connects...

Inherited a still decent single core AMD 939 machine from a friend that has a dead mobo and I want to turn it into an audio recording workstation. (I have an older version of Pro Tools that won't work with multi-core) Problem is, I can't seem to find any online stores that still sell decent...

I got my new machine up and running last night (Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, Q6600, 4GB G.Skill DDR2 800, 8800GT) and I'm having some problems with the memory... The only setting I'm able to run it at is the full 400MHz using AUTO in the BIOS. This results in a 2:3 ratio - I've read that it's...

I'm assembling my new Q6600 system here tonight and something seems to be seriously wrong with the TT Max Orb I got from newegg. I got everything installed up to the point where you actually mount the HS and it says there's a nut that secures it to the retention plate. The thing is that post...

I'm ordering a new machine tonight or early tomorrow morning after my 2 1/2 year old one died today while installing a BFG 8800GT OC... mobo is totally dead, ugh, really hope the card is ok. So far I've picked out the Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 mobo, and the Corsair 620HX PSU. I'm trying to...

I have an empty folder called "FPA" that's getting created in my root C:\ every time I boot and I can't figure out where it's coming from. Everything looks normal to me in Process Explorer and Autoruns and the system passes a Defender scan. Anyone else seen this? Thanks

I just got an LG 24" display and I'm seeing pretty slow FPS at native 1920 and 1680 resolutions in a lot of games... System: Asus A8N-SLI Athlon 64 X2 4200+ XFX GeForce 7800GTX 256MB 2GB PC3200 The reviews on the 2900 look pretty good and the price seems really reasonable. My...

Help guys, I think I just hosed my roommate's new machine: I built it for him back in July - specs: Asus P5K-E WiFi-AP Core 2 Duo E6600 2GB OCZ DDR2 1066 BFG 8800GTS 320MB 250GB WD SATA 18X Samsung DVD-RW SATA Vista Home Premium 32bit Last week he started getting random crashes...

I'm getting a 24" display next week and it seems like all of the ones I'm considering have some sort of show stopper issue with them: Dell 2407WFP-HC - bad ghosting issues, no HDMI LG 246WP-BN - gets stuck in power save mode Samsung 244T - no HDMI I don't want a TN panel and my next...

Hey guys, I just built my best friend a new system yesterday using the P5K-E, which I picked out for him largely based on the [H] review of the Deluxe version of it. Everything's working great except for the audio - something is really screwed up and I can't figure it out. We're running Vista...