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Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R MSI N260GTX-T2D896-OCv4 GeForce GTX 260 896MB SEAGATE 7K ST31000528AS Seems like the motherboard needs the regular ATX plug plus a 4 pinner, which isn't a surprise, but then I noticed it wants an additional 2 more 4 pin plugs. And I believe the...

It seems there are no Socket 771 boards that support DDR3. Judging from the benchmarks I've seen, that seems to handicap the performance significantly, even making it lose to a qx9650 w/ DDR3. Does anyone know if they are planning to release a Socket 771 board with DDR3 support or a qx9775 in...

I'm looking to get the best power efficiency I can get from a video card while still having the best performance I can. It seems the new GeForce series does not seem to be much faster than the 8800 series, but has the power efficiency improved?

Enermax claims "82-88% efficiency @ 20-100% load. Compliant with ENERGY STAR® 4.0, Blue Angel and 80 PLUS® efficiency requirements. " The Seasonic is 78.3% efficient at 65W load ( http://www.silentpcreview.com/article656-page4.html ) I'm not sure how the new BFG one compares. 65W of...

I need to make a big RAID array, and it seems that the Gigabyte boards are the only ones that have 6 ports on a single ICH9R controller. I don't want to get a RAID expansion card because the ICH9R is supposed to be very good and can do the job. That would also mean I'd have to use a PCI-E slot...

I'm basically shopping around for the most efficient power supply, and I came across this on NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817373004 95% efficiency? There doesn't seem to be any reviews. Is this thing for real?

I'm looking to put 6 Raptors in RAID 0. My target write speed is around 250MB/s. Anyone think I'll have problems reaching that?

DDR 2 version http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/gigabyte/p35-dq6/b1.htm Looks to be about the same as the ASUS Striker Extreme. I was hoping for better performance, maybe the DDR3 version will offer it.

I've been hearing alot of comments about this board going into an endless reboot cycle, especially on Newegg. I was wondering if anyone owned this board and expierenced any problems like this?

According to a Tom's Hardware review from March, the 680i chipset seems to bottleneck RAID 0 performance at 110MB/s. Does anybody know if this is still true today? It seems the Intel ICH7/8 blow the 680i out of the water when it comes to RAID 0 performance.

Looks like the last place that had it was zipzoomfly.com, and they were selling it for $400 (ouch). I can't find it for sale anywhere else..

I'm building a top end system, and I have some questions about the latest nVidia 680i chipset motherboards. I'm looking to buy the Asus P5N32-E SLI. This is what I want to do: Put a top end video card in the 16x PCIe slot. Put my video editing card in the other 16x PCIe slot (The card...

Ok, I'm looking to spend some serious money on a good computer chair. I've gone through so many chairs because they keep breaking. I'm a pretty big guy at 6'3 215lbs. Anyone have any opinions on these chairs? I've been hearing of problems with the Aeron being uncomfortable with the lumbar...

I kept scratching my head wondering why my system would lock up for about 1 or 2 seconds when encountering another guy to shoot in this FPS multiplayer game. I knew it wasn't my connection, then I realized it was the X1800XT's throttling/dynamic cooling that was causing the freezing, when...

I know most people have alot of heat just from their regular hardware like their CPU/MB, but with these new video cards like the X1800XT and the GTXs they bring heat up to new levels, where the normal idle heat is 52c (126F) and load temps can reach up to 60c (140F). My room is nice and toasty...

I don't use 3D Mark very much, in fact this is my first time trying '05. Anyway I got a score 9000. Here are my system specs: Athlon FX-57 on RDX200 Radeon X1800XT 1GB Corsair XMS RAM, I forget the specs here, I think 2-2-2-5, running in Dual Channel. All of CCC is on default settings...

My room gets real hot because of my puter and monitor etc., it gets about 80-85F and when you step outside my room its about 60F, hehe. Well anyway it seems my X1800XT is throttling down alot, I am hearing the fan power up and down, and each time the card throttles down the game I am playing...

Anyone else using Cat 5.11's and notice that when you playback WMV the colors are all off and everything looks purple/orange/blue? I've noticed the only way to fix it is to turn of the Video Mixing Renderer, but I don't have any problems with MPGs or AVIs when Video Acceleration is set to Full...

http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=195&page=1 why is there a huge gap in performance here.. :confused:

For me, it's going to be Age of Empires 3 in 1600x1200, it's not playable for me right now in that resolution on a Radeon 9800 pro and 3ghz Intel CPU (Im switching to AMD too).

Ok now the timer is up on ATI's website.. Pricewatch and Newegg show nothing for their new cards.. don't tell me I have to wait AGAIN? :confused: :mad:

Well, today I was playing a game and the game froze up mysteriously and my ears heard a drive that sounded like it was repowering up or restarting its spin, after the respin was done the game continued on. I am using 3 U320 SCSI drives in RAID :( and I decided to use the adaptec controller BIOS...

with all these people speculating on pipes :p

My Sony GDM-F520 just died, it wont turn on any more so I'm looking for a new monitor, back when I bought it they boasted the tighest apeture grille and is one of the largest monitors out there, I think 21 or 22 inches and had a huge resolution support with 200hz refresh rate. I'm a gamer and I...

My main system just died and I'm on such a crappy system, but I'm holding out on a crossfire motherboard and r520, does anyone know how much longer we have to wait for these two things to come out. I can't play any games on this POS :mad:

If you're going to have a top of the line PC, like fastest cpu, lots of drives or fast drives and SLI video cards etc etc. you probably need something like at bare minimum a 450 watt power supply, right? with SLI you'll probably need 550 watts. Well I just checked what my electricity costs and...

Anyone play this game? It's great, but it seems to need a lot of power.. I'm running on 3ghz p4, 1 gig dual channel ddr, ati radeon 9800 pro and the game is choppy at full detail in 800x600. The demo however plays smooth, in the full game the levels are like 3x bigger, this game should be good...

Hey im looking to buy a really small motherboard, i saw these mini-itx boards by VIA but it seems they do not have a PCI slot? does anyone know of something this small with at least 1 or two pci slots and/or has 802.11b built onto them?

A weird thing happened to me today, I brought my cellphone into my PC room and the first weird thing that happened was my desktop speakers were emitting a buzz, intensifying as I got closer to the speakers. So what I did was just lay the cellphone down on the floor. Then I loaded up a game and...