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OCZ NEVER AGAIN!!! Just wanted to add my voice to the choir on the net to say that another OCZ Vertex Gen 1 40GB Solid State Hard Drive is dead. Below are the units that have died that I purchased or recommended for others. Burned by all of them, even the PBX system I built for friends that...

I'm thinking of switching camps from being a long time nVidia fan until the wholeFermi debacle soured me on the company and their treatment of their customers and the heat that these cards produce. Looking at the latest Battlefield 3 benchmarks it seems like the AMD (ATI) cards are 10% faster...

Delete Thread: Problem was with Windows 7 Balanced Power profile and Sleep Mode [H]ard|Forum > [H]ard|Ware > Overclocking & Cooling Overclocking Air: Intel i7 920, Asus P6T, G.Skill DDR3-1600 C8, Xigmatek HDT-1284E This is a follow-up to the thread above. I just did an upgrade to the...

I ran into a strange problem with Prime95 on a previously completely stable 3.60 GHz overclock speed after adding in a Scythe S-Flex 1,200RPM 120mm fan. Previously I did multiple 9+ to 11+ hour stress tests on the same settings and got a clean results but yesterday my computer blue screened. I...

I've been reading a lot of overclocking threads and it seems that folks mostly use water based setups and I'm having a hard time finding accurate and reliable info for air overclocking. I'm asking for any info from folks that did overclocking on air or have read other threads where they saw...

Previous Post: The Hidden Cost of an SSD Upgrade (Intel SSD + nForce4 Chipset = No RAID! -> Upgrade) Reason for Upgrade I am now looking at doing a computer upgrade to the Intel Core i7 architecture because of the problems with the nVidia nForce4 and the Intel SSD that I just purchased forcing...

Previous Thread: nVidia nForce MediaShield 15.23, .25, .26 - Does Not Install! Slowness Unbecoming of a Computer My current Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB SATA Hard Drive for the OS was super slow after years of updates, service packs, hotfixes, program installations, and general usage...

Cross-post: NVIDIA Forums > nZone > Hardware > nForce Mobos > nVidia nForce MediaShield 15.23, .25, .26 - Does Not Install!, MediaShield installer does not install services, GUI, or files. The Problem I have the an nVidia nForce 4 AMD SLI based motherboard and I have been using the nForce...

Quick question. If I add the AverMedia Combo PCI-E 1x card to my motherboard's other PCI-E 16x connector drop my eVGA GTX 260 video card to 8x speed? I cannot use the 1x PCI-E connector because it is blocked by the GTX 260 and I want to avoid the 4x PCI-E because it would block the air...

My first CRT died a few years ago and when I did the research back then I found that there was no good replacements for a CRT without hitting up against a $1,000+++ cost barrier so I just scrounged up some left over CRTs from friends and used those until now. Now my third and last 19" CRT...

I've put a some configurations together based on a lot of research for two friends of mine who are looking into upgrading their gaming desktops and are also looking at HTPC systems to connect to their HDTV systems for movie playback and recording. I'm looking for some feedback on these systems...

I was shopping for a new HTPC and I put together a few parts lists for what I wanted to build. I started first with a HTPC Slim config for AMD & Intel using microATX and on-board video but then I decided that I wanted a dedicated video card in that config to beef it up a little so I put...

Just wanted to write up my experiences with my RAID problems. I have four of the Western Digital Caviar SE16 500 GB WD5000AAKS 16 MB SATA-II 300 MB/s hard drive models. Previously I had them configured in a 2.0 TB (1.5 TB usable) array on my Silicon Image 3114 PCI SATA-I 150 MB/s RAID 0,1,5...

This post was originally made in the Dual Core Gaming Fix Guide thread but since that thread went un-sticky, I'm posting it standalone. This script fixes many gaming problems for users with Dual Core processors, such as freezes, crashes, disconnections, corrupt video, and other weird game...

I have the memory listed below and I found that it is only 3D stable at 265 MHz at the settings below. However at 270 MHz it passes Memtest86+ 1.65 for 8-hours without any errors and passes SuperPI 32M but it is not 3D stable because when starting Battlefield 2 the intro movie that plays black...

I'm wondering if anybody snatched up any of these motherboards that were supposed to be in stock at Newegg on 2005-12-11 since that was their ETA? Right now their ETA moved up to 2005-12-15 and I'm wondering if this is because the motherboard they received were sold out or they just didn't...

Here is my upcoming system config. I tried to research into and resolve issues with this configuration before I place the order early next week so I'm looking for problems that you might see with this configuration. Please let me know if you see problems or conflicts with this config...