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I reformatted out of curiosity, and so far from a perception standpoint its no different than my 640gb Blue (yes i've seen the benches, including HDtune). Is there an obvious activity that could show me the "slowness" in comparison to a Caviar Black/Blue equivalent? Am i missing something...

I just switched back to Firefox due to extreme visual tearing when using IE8. Has this happened to anybody else? I have the latest Forceware drivers and BIOS for my machine as well. Firefox 3 isn't showing any tearing so far.

Did an OC project for fun. Thought I would share. I know Crysis AND the chip are old news, so don't bitch :) Test system: Celeron E1200 @ 1.6ghz (8x200fsb ) & 3.3ghz (8x413 fsb & 1.51 vcore) 2 x 2gb PCZ Gold DDR2 800mhz MSI P43 Neo3 Rev. 1 w/ Zalman CPNS 9900 for cooling EVGA 9800gtx+...

Microcenter FTW Quad on the cheap. Im goin today.

If I enable the 3gb switch in the boot.ini file to read like so: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3gb Will this...

Without factoring a sub into the mix, do any of you EQ these speakers? I've been playing a little bit, and find that the midrange (2k-4k) needs to be dropped a bit. The bass can be upped slightly too (60-125hz). The highs vary on the recording or type of music for me. Here are my settings...

I've been using these [primarily for music] 6-8 hours a day as my mains on my PC along with a sub for about a year. I decided today to take the subwoofer out to try them solo for a while. I don't remember the bass being this decent the first week [prompting me to get a sub]. The mix is so much...

I'm mainly using my receiver/speaker/sub combo for music listening. What crossover would you recommend for music? I've kept it at 60 hz for a long time @ 50% volume - but it quickly fatigues the ears or is insanely loud. I dropped it to 40 hz today and I'm enjoying it more, but Hope I'm not...

I bought one a few days ago, but after several attempts with various settings all It would do was 3.1ghz, which was unstable (with under clocked ram). Now after 8 hours Prime stable its sitting at 3.0ghz from 1.6ghz. So far it feels just as responsive as my e6300 in multitasking apps (virus scan...

Apparently not. Heres a petition. I signed it. I've been playing LucasArts Star Wars titles on the PC for 10+ years. WTF. http://www.petitiononline.com/g5d4iu5f/petition.html I guess the market ain't so hot for PC? If this is the wrong forum please move.

These cards are down to $160 on Newegg, and I was wondering if anyone knows of any crossfire benchmarks with these. I have a crossfire board and was considering dual 2900pro's over a single 8800gts (G92). Any input would be great, as google turned up nothing significant.

To anyone who can help me out - I tried reinstalling the COD 1 and the UO expansion. With both games on the very first mission, the scripted missions won't "execute" or "go" after your superior officer gives orders and the next sequence of the mission starts, nothing happens. In UO, for...

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Best Buy Bought one today. Returned my 226BW and got this - the panel I got is labeled as "S." The picture quality is superior to the 226bw.

I have this 8800GTS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130080 Can a corrupt install of video drivers (158.22, XP SP2) imitate damaged vram? After a freah install of the newest 8800(gts) drivers, I installed Medieval II TW. Today upon playing, I got a temporary spiked...

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Mine is idling at 59C right now and gets up to 90C or higher during Oblivion... is this normal? I reset the cooler with some Arctic silver based compound but I think the temps were a few degrees cooler with the Zalman paste I had on there. I have it overclocked at 675/1585.

On two different machines in my house (with different copies of windows) BOTH prompted me today to re-activate Windows (NO hardware changes either)... I sat on hold with customer service for 15 mins. for the first one (haven't done the second one yet) - which was much longer than its ever been...

I'm running stock cooling currently, but since I grudgingly put my Zalman 9500 in the closet (due to the stupid backside cooling plate that comes with the board) - what options are there for the DQ6?? So far the only thing I've seen that will work is the Arctic Freezer Pro 7... Any help is...

What kind of overclocking results can I expect with these parts?? - Pentium 4 560J (3.6ghz) http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80813 - Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128012 - Patriot Signature DDR2-533 (2x512mb)...

My fiance picked up a DS3 for me for Xmas and I believe its a Rev.1 board. I'm using my 560J Pentium 4 until I can pick up a e6300, but I wondering if there is any other reason to need a Rev.2 other than Quad-core support? Any help is appreciated!

Anyone else experience problems when switching drivers? I've run Driver Cleaner Pro like 3 times and the same ATI files keep re-inserting themselves in the System32/driver folder. I'm getting like 50fps in HL2 with an 8800GTS... and I think it might be the drivers casuing conflict. Anyone...

I have x1800xt 256mb, and it performs pretty well at my native res. of 1680x1050... My only issue is that I find that certain games have the "hitching" or skipping effect (not FPS drop, but jerky motion) when turning on the eye candy. Its most noticeable in HL2, Oblivion, and FEAR. HL2 is...