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What are you guys using for games and/or software to bench your GPU's? I am not looking for random FPS reports, I am looking for something more along the lines of the old Quake timedemos (predetermined rendering) that is the same all the time and a good apples to apples comparison with 2...

when I try to run my memory bandwidth benchmark in the new sisoftware sandra lite version 2007.2.11.17 I get an error "windows is out of memory or resources. close down some applications." and I definitely have a bunch of free memory. I am running this test under windows vista. Now, I am...

Hi everyone, I wanted to share with you guys and gals my new site I created in an effort to push even more traffic to hardware review/news sites. Aside from having the ability to do just that, it will also build a nice little community of hardware lovers and a place to find quality reviews and...

My uv cold cathodes are unfortunately not so bright any more! So does anyone have any idea what could have happened here? Also do you think my actual cathode tubes are done? Can I get away with just getting another power box?

I just bought a 6600 gt agp and I am trying to playback some high def tv captures, but they are skipping. It seems to be using 100% cpu usage. I am on the 71.89 forceware drivers which seem to be the newest. Anyone have any ideas on this? I am using component video and am playing the .ts...

My current water setup doesnt use any extra additives or anything, just straight distilled water. It's been up for about 8 months now and I have no stuff growing in the water. It all looks super clean like it did on day one. So I guess using just distilled water all by itself is fine or I...

Was thinking about purchasing this case and the extra panel with a window in it. What you guys think about this case (especially want to hear from you that own it). I am going to be putting my watercooling in it and want to know if there are any ups or downs with that as well. Thanks...

I am looking at buying a venice core a64 and dropping it in a socket 939 nforce3 board. What board do you guys recommend? I am looking at the msi k8n neo2 platinum and the gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939. Which of those two do you think would be better? I will be overclocking aggresively with...

will a Geforce 6800 GT OC fit without any modification in a shuttle sn45g case? My guess is that I would be getting a version 3 as its the newest, not sure if that would make a difference, probably not. Thanks in advance.

I have a computer im working on that will only post if I pop the cmos battery and then put it back in after 30 or so secs. If I shut the machine down and go to turn it on like 20 minutes later it wont post and I have to remove the battery and put it back in again to get it to post. What...

What is the easiest way to remove all the water from a bay res setup? I went and opened the plug and threw a piece of hose in there and siphoned it out into a container, but that only took a little out of the bay res and stopped. I think I am going to just try to pull the bay res out and...

My bay res sprung a leak :rolleyes: It seems to be a real small leak where the top meets the side. What would be the best way to patch it up? I haven't fully examined it yet because its still setup in my pc, but im pretty sure its maybe a 3 cm long? tiny spot where the top meets the side...

I tried using the coolbits stuff but no matter what I set it to and I try to test it with the little test button it tells me that it fails and wont let me keep that clock speed. I don't care what the fock it says I want to see my machine crash if it can't handle it. Any way I can make it use...

See sig for specs and here is some background. The sound worked fine in farcry when I had my Radeon 9600 Pro installed. I then installed a Geforce 6800 GT OC into my pc and then proceeded to benchmark the hell outta my machine. Well I went to play farcry and I noticed there was no sound, so...

I have a ps2 that is not in working order and I was wondering if it was possible to fix. The only thing I can see that looks wrong with it is that the tiny ribbon cable that you plug into the dvd drive has some of the traces damaged, like they are wiped off in a few areas. Is there any way...

2 X 256MB Kingston HyperX PC3200 old revision not A or A1 - $155 shipped. 1 Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB ATI made retail w/box - $110 Shipped. 1 Radeon 9500 - $80 shipped. 1 128MB Memory for Notebook PC came out of my Dell Inspiron 600m - $32 shipped. I can accept paypal or m/o. Thanks for...

I remember in the 90's most of the cpus coming out didn't put much cache on their cpus and it didn't grow very much at all on anyones core and I was just wondering why. Was it because the cache was so expensive? I think I am starting to see why our new processors aren't yielding much...

I got some blue UV dye from crazyPC and it says to add a few drop every 5 minutes to get the desired effect. Well I have added a ton of drops and I still don't see a visible effect to the water yet. What gives? The bottle is still prolly half full or more. Am I supposed to use a ton or...

I have a relay kit that came with my swiftech kit and I was wondering if I could use it with a Hydor L30 pump. Would I just cut the wire open on the pump, expose the wires and hook them up to the appropriate connections on the relay kit and socket? I filled the system with my newly arrived...

I just got my new bay res and the barbs came in a bag with them. I don't have a problem with attaching them other than I have no clue if I should use something in the threads or if I just thread them in there until tight as it will go. Help! Thanks :D

I have a swiftech kit and from the looks of things swiftech has used all 1/2" OD tubing. I need to replace my pump and I need to pick up a res as well to replace the swiftech fill and bleed kit. The pumps seem to have support for 1/2" ID tubing and a lot of tubing is 1/2" OD tubing. What...

I have only seen a few kicking around on the net and one I really wanted but didn't bookmark where the heck I saw it. It had these great blue sleeved removable cables and was all slick looking. Man I wish I could find that mofo. So if anyone knows where to get the good stuff let me know.

I was thinking about picking up a clear acrylic uv case, maybe the blue and I had a few q's. Is there any drawbacks to an acrylic case? Has anyone put water cooling in one of these and what radiator(s) fit inside. I want to build a 939 pin machine that is watercooled in one of these...

I am getting a new pump due to my swiftech 300 having a leak. I knew it had a leak and sure enough when I removed my DVD drive out from under it there was a small amount of visible water on it. Along with a new pump I am going to get a bay res to replace the closed system deal from swiftech...

Could I use a hydor L40 in a PC watercooling setup or is it too crazy? Here is what I can see it has for specs: Max Flowrate 740GPH (2800l/h) Delivery Head 90" (230cm) Power consumption 23W (US Version- 115V-60HZ) 5/8"OD barbed fittings on both suction and pressure sides. Thanks all.

I am filling my swiftech system, yeah leak and all. It's a wicked small leak I still can't see it or know where it is, but anyway... How do you get all the bubbles out? Right now there are tons of really tiny little bubbles all in the loop and the container I am using to fill the system...

I have a swiftech kit on my athlon and it works great, but I have had a little issue. You may have read my thread here explaining some water loss... Click Here! I went to fill the kit again because it had air all up in it due to water leaking out and I found that there was a leak in the...

I have the Swiftech H20-22500-AV kit that is the enclosed style without a res and it seems that a lot of the water has mysteriously disappeared, but theres still enough for the water to pump through because its still pumping and cooling, I mean it has gone up a few degrees, but it's still doing...

I currently have 512 megs of Kingston HyperX pc3200 ddr (2 X 256 in dual channel) and I need to upgrade to 1 gb now. I am wondering what my best bet is for ordering more memory. Should I get another 512 of matching hyperX (2 X 256) so I can have 4 X 256 in dual channel mode? If I do this...

My machine just freaked out. I went to this website and I got all these popups and then it just went berserk and I couldn't click anything, so I restarted my machine and lowered my vcore overvoltage to where I normally had it thinking that may have had something to do with it, but when it...

I have a week 32(i believe) AQXEA barton 2500+ that I can use some lower multipliers with, but above the stock 11 don't work. After a little research it seems that you need to unlock the higher ones before you can use them. I thought it was a little wierd I could use lower, but not higher...

I have a blue led out of some electronic device I busted because I want to mod it in place of my existing power LED on my case. I was wondering if this new LED will safely replace my existing power LED and whether or not there will be any problem using this larger (maybe even different style?)...

How important is a 24 hour leak test when first setting up a watercooling system? I've got mine all set up and it's been 2 hours and I am dying to put my machine back together. I don't see any leaks so far. Are they saying a leak could pop at 23 hours? In that case couldn't a leak pop in say...

I'm getting a swiftech H20-22500 Extreme Performance kit that includes a MCW5000-A water block for $150.00 is that a decent deal? I don't have 2 120mm fan holes in the rear of my case for the larger rad and I was thinking about mounting it on the top outside of my case with the fans on top of...

I just got my aerogate II thermal temp monitor and fan control unit. I am pretty impressed. Reads temps same as the software I used to use (so it must have been pretty acurate) and same as the bios. I have a few q's for anyone that might own this unit or just know the answers to my q's. :)...

A 3d benchmark I use was fairly smooth with my Barton 2500+ clocked at 1930mhz, but when I have it running at 3200+ speeds (2200mhz) the benchmark will stutter, looking awful. My question is... what does that mean? CPU temperature is at 51 maybe 52 at load and around 43 idle. Degrees C of...