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Finally getting around to replacing my 6 year old Dell Inspiron. Don't want Dell again, so looking at sager or Asus. Going to get 2 hard drives. Objective is to speed boot up time tremendously (wife is terribly impatient) plus have a cavernous hdd to store pics/videos/songs. I'm...

I need a case fast and unfortunately, I don't have time to put in the proper research. My system is really messed up and I need to trouble shoot it this weekend. Which means I'll be removing all my components from my Antec P180b and trying to figure out what the hell is wrong. The problem is...

In performance that is, not price. I've been out of the loop for a while and need to replace both cards with one card and I want, at the very least, equivalent performance and I need to order it ASAP. TIA

Is it possible to watch blu discs at 1080p with 2x 8800 GTXs and a 24" monitor with native 1080p resolution (but at 60 hz) through the standard DVI cable/connection? I have AnyDVD defeating that annoying HDCP standard, so that's not an issue. I'm more concerned with watching at 1080p.

After 9 months of trial and error, I think I may have finally found the problem to my computer woes. It's either the SATA DVD/RW drive (the Samsung one in my profile) or the SATA cable that connected it to the mobo (which is now an EVGA 750i FTW). Background: Up until 9 months ago, I was...

As I was removing my heatsink and cpu to clean the seating surfaces prior to reattaching the heatsink, I managed to get some thermal compound on some of the pins. I immediately cleaned it off with a paper towel, then used rubbing alcohol to make sure I got it all, but there is a slight...

I just installed a new motherboard (evga 750i FTW) to replace my old one that was having stability issues (XFX 680i LT). The brands aren't really important. When I first powered on, I saw the FSB speed and memory speed (both correct), the SATA devices (all correct), then I entered the BIOS...

I'm looking for a document that describes, in some detail, what each BIOS setting is for a standard Pheonix-Award BIOS. Too many descriptions I see say something along the lines of (for EXAMPLE only, I know what CPU Core 1 is): CPU Core 1 - enable or disable. Enabling turns the feature on...

You can see my sig to see my components, but basically I'm looking for the most stable, trouble free motherboard to run 2 8800GTXs in SLI with an E8400 Wolfdale cpu with NO overclocking. My current 680i LT system is very unstable. Sometimes it will boot up, sometimes it will hang on the...

I have reason to believe that my BIOS is infected. If I reflash the BIOS, you think that would get rid of it?

Should be a simple thing, take out E6600, put in E8500, BIOS should automatically adjust timings and away we go, but.... I put in the E8500 and within seconds, literally, the computer shuts itself off. Completely off. Sometimes I can get into the BIOS before it shuts down, other times I...

I'm not interested in overclocking and my mobo can only accept the (max) Q6xxx or the E8xxx series processors. Given that both the Q6700 and the E8500 are both about $300 USD, and that the E8500 is 3.16 GHz while the 6700 is 2.67 GHz, I'm wondering which will serve me better for the next 2-3...

My current mobo (XFX 680i LT), flashed to the latest bios, can only accept the Wolfdale architecture processors, but what I don't know if there are any quad cores that use that architecture. Silly question I know, but I also know that someone here knows the answer. I get confused between...

Ok, I know no one has the 9800 yet, so no one knows this, but I'm wondering how the 8800 GTX does with DX10 games? I haven't played one yet, but back when I bought my first 8800 GTX about 11 months ago, there were rumblings that it wouldn't be that great for DX10 games. Sure, it has the...

If I read the press releases correctly, the 9800GX2 is going to replace the 8800GTX, but I'm not sure if the upgrade is worth it. So I'm thinking of going SLI with my current card, but at $400 (cheapest I can find), it seems like it's still ridiculously high priced. But if I wait too long...

I have an XFX 680i LT board and a E6600 cpu (soon to get a E8400) and I haven't had much luck overclocking. Mainly because I don't have the patience and when I need to clear the CMOS, I pretty much need to take out the video card to get to the CMOS jumper. Took a couple of CMOS clears to...

Anybody use this wizard? I calibrated my monitor already using Monaco Optix XR Pro, so I really don't want to change the settings, but I'm guessing this display wizard is nvidia's attempt to offer a calibrated solution? Is that the gist of it?

I haven't installed ntune since everyone keeps pointing to it as being a problem. I haven't started OCing anything yet because I wanted to make sure my system was stable. It is, so now to juice it up some. Is it safe to install ntune yet or should I just do it all manually in the bios?

It's unofficial because it's all subjective. After agonizing over this monitor, the Eizo 2411w, and the LCD2690, I opted for this one. This is my first experience with an LCD monitor other than my Dell 17" widescreen, which is an S-PVA panel and subject to noticeable and unacceptable...

What do those 4 things in the subject line have in common? Read on to find out. You'll either be disgusted or amused. :D I installed a fdd in the fixed 3.5" drive in the P180b using the 3.5" rails supplied with the Antec case. It was a VERY tight fit, but it was in and so I was happy...

Finally installed the components in my sig last night, got into the bios, but I was tired and didn't want to mess around any further, so I went to sleep. Tonight, I will attempt to install raid in raid 1 on my brand new SATA hdd's. I have downloaded the raid drivers from XFX (the mobo maker)...

Put together my sig finally and unfortunately there's a slight problem. The 8800gtx doesn't sit all the way in the pci-e card because of a motherboard fan on the MCP chip. I powered up anyway thinking I had sufficient contact on the pins. Well, everything seemed to spin up fine, but I had a...

I bought both the card and the board in the subject line. If anyone else has this combination, tell me what you did to get the card to seat properly in the primary pci-e x16 slot. I suspect I'm the only one...but thought I'd try.

[rant on} You can see my sig to see what I bought, but the bottom line is I have 3 SATA drives (2 hdd and 1 DVD/RW). My mobo came with 2 (that's TWO) SATA data cables. My hdd came with ZERO cables. My DVD/RW came with ZERO cables. WTF is wrong with this picture?!?!? Ok, I admit to being...

I have the case and I have Silverstone Zeus 850w and my goal was to put the PSU in WITHOUT removing the fan in the lower chamber. Someone who had a PSU with the same depth, which is 180mm, said they did it. For the record, the depth from the back of the case to the hub of the center fan is...

OK, thanks to J-Mag and Eden for telling me how to run a PSU without the mobo attached to it, I was able to test my stock P180b case fans and some Yate Loons. First off, the stock Antec fans are 3 speed, 120mm fans and the Yate Loons are single speed. I bought the YL just in case the stock...

Quick question. I want to see how quiet the case fans are on my P180b, but my mobo hasn't arrived yet. Can I connect the PSU to just the case fans to see how quiet they are? Don't know why I couldn't, but just making sure.

Don't know what forum this is appropriate to, but here goes. My mother-in-law is completely computer/OS illiterate. She has, what is essentially, a dumb terminal that has net access. The "computer" is no longer supported and she can't get her email/net access half the time, so she thinks...

My company was getting rid of the 1500 VA model of the subject UPS (Smart-UPS 1500), so I graciously offered to take it off their hands :D I intend to connect my desktop to this bad boy. Anyone familiar with this particular unit? Any advice hooking it up? My main reason for using it is...

I have the monitor in my sig on order. Since there is relatively little information on this monitor, other than from NEC themselves, I'd like to do some testing for the community at large. I suspect it will behave exactly like the 2690 (I hope so anyway) with the exception of the gamut, but...

I read somewhere that you should only put in one of the two sticks, set the bios settings to what you want, the power down and add your second stick. Why?

I have a cheap logitech 2:1, unshielded setup that hums at low and high volumes. The hummmmmmmmm is very audible and mightily disturbing, probably because it's unshielded. So I'm looking for a decent replacement, 2 satellites, 1 sub, preferrably shielded. Any suggestions?

Ok folks, this site has been great. After 5 months of research, I have purchased what is in my sig. Some of the parts are here, others are on their way. I plan to OC the 6600 to, at a minimum, 6700 speeds, maybe slightly higher, but I don't want to be too aggressive because I don't want to...

edit: sorry, went prompt stupid:eek: . All is well now. :D

If you check my sig, you'll see what I've purchased and that I still need a GPU. The basic question is in the subject line. There is a middle chamber on the P180b that holds 2x 3.5" FDD that is removable. If I buy an 8800 GTX (or 2), that chamber will have to be removed. It appears that...

If I have a quad core running one program all 4 cores are used right? I think that's right. So if I run a game for example, it's going to use all 4 cores equally. In other words, the same code will run on all 4 cores unless the program is specifically written to execute some code on core 1 and...

Everything stock. P180B case (have already), 680i or 680i XT mobo (not sure of the brand yet), E6700, 8800GTX (not sure of brand yet) 2x WD SE16 500GB hdd 2x 1GB Patriot Extreme memory Do I need a cpu cooler? Or chipset fans? Or is plain old air cooling with the stock P180B...

Sorry to ask what probably has been asked a thousand times now, but I just don't have the stamina to research yet another aspect of my new build. So I hope y'all can help me out here. I have both XP Pro SP2 and Vista Ultimate. What I'm getting: Mobo - 680i LT version (not sure which...

I've just spent the last 4 nights researching 680i LT boards (mostly at eVGA since they're the only ones out with the board for some time now) and I have NOT seen the volume of complaints with this chipset that I have seen with the 680i chipset. So I'm wondering, is that because there are so...