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This hard drive is driving me nuts. It is my brothers in law computer and the hard drive is a little over a year old. Out of the blue it started taking a long time to load Windows. Now everything has a long delay. I think it's the hard drive well because everything else is fine, or so it...

The big program is the one that came with my motherboard. The other one is the temp program I've seen all over the place lately. So which one is closer to being accurate? I don't care if my CPU is running at 50 something degrees but this chip was 10 degrees cooler in my old motherboard, at...

I ordered a VF900 to replace the stock one, don't plan on overclocking I just like having a better cooling solution. In different forum I was trying to help a guy that was having problems with his comptuer and it also sported an eVGA 7600GT. In that thread we compared temperatures to see if...

After I had some problems installing the update I just uninstalled and manually reinstalled it. One reason I thought I had a "problem" was because I always had two instances of Firefox running in the task manager. After I get it all set back up I still have a Firefox instance running when it's...

I splurged the other day and bought some crap I really don't need. Long story short I bought a new SLi board (or so I thought, guess it isn't), 7600GT, and a new PSU. My old board limited my overclock to 255X9 because of the broken AGP lock. Well the board would load in the mid to up 40...

Someone asked me to look at their Dell cause it was running slow. Well as it turns out it is full of spyware and viruses, surprise surprise. Well I managed to get Avast! loaded up and ran a full scan. It picked up a virus in Windows and I deleted it. Well big mistake Windows would boot but crash...

Yesterday I got tired of my HTPC crashing itself so I went and bought a Sempron 2800+/ECS combo at Fry's for $80. I asked the sales guy if the Sempron was a 64 bit edition and he told me no. After I got everything installed I ran Everest to see what the temps were looking like. While I was...

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1299 Downloaded this and before I installed it I ran the Q4 demo. Here are the results I obtained... Old Drivers - 81.92 The benchmark started at 1/13/2006 12:02:50 PM Comment: Old Drivers Resolution: 1280×1024 Demo: guru5.demo Quality...

Just fired this game up and I'm pissed. All I have to say is the story better be worth the bad graphics, out of sync sound, and the AA option being unavailable. This is why porting games over to PC really gets under my skin. I was watching the install of the game and a lot of the maps were...

How is it compared to the 1st one? Better or worse? Impressions?

Ran across this and figured I'd share. I don't play the game, own it, or have any plans but I know a lot of you do. http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358

The last few days my computer has been acting up. First I noticed subtle issues then last night the computer crapped on itself when I was playing some BF2. I suspected it might have been the Alcohol 120% I installed to make a few mini images. I unistalled the program and things haven't gotten...

http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/cpus/amd/athlon64/fx57/001.htm The review is vague at best, it doesn't even compare it to a FX-55.

I took a 80MM case fan I had sitting around and attached it directly above the fan on a NV Silencer 5. Logically by forcing more air into the Silencer it should move more air through the unit and help bring down temps. Now the temps are actually higher, why exactly is that?

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I have an Abit AV8 motherboard that refuses to clock past 255Mhz. I was at the Abit forums and saw that many people have discovered their AGP lock stops working in the 250-260 range. So to combat this I ran the computer at 8:2:1 ratio. Right now I'm at 270:68:34 and looking to go a bit...

Unfortunately for me money doesn't grow on trees. I do have a job but it is so part time I basically make enough money to put gas in my car to go to work and school. Right now I have a A64 3000+ Winchester at 2.3Ghz (255Mhz FSB) and had to run a divider of 333Mhz for it to work. The RAM is...

I just got this card back today from warranty, but I went ahead and picked up a 6800 that I bought on credit. The card is "new", meaning I have never used it. You will just get the card and silencer, no cables, connectors, or thermal paste. I will accept Paypal or a certified bank check...

I saw this over at hexus.net Source: http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xMDgy

Recently my 9800 Pro has decided to give up on me in 3D apps. I voided the warranty with an Arctic Silencer 3 and a BIOS flash so I went and picked up a 6800nu(can't say I'm impressed). When I put the card in I decided to run some benches from stock speeds and no unlocked pipes or vertex...

It was time for the monthly dusting and this time I decided to take out the card. I put it all back together, like I've done a thousand times, and now 3D apps are messed up. Everything 2D is good and I have tried different molex connections to see if that was the problem. In a little bit I am...

Since I didn't get an answer last time, I figured I'll try again. I have an A64 3000+, Abit AV8 and ATi 9800 Pro. When I overclock too far, I guess, I'll BSOD with and ati2dvag error. I decided to download the CCC version of the driver and see if it would cure the problem. Now instead of a...

Why would my video card driver be causing me to crash? I currently have my A64 3000+ at 2300Mhz running fine (255X9 4XHTT AGP/PCI locked). Any time I try pushing farther I get a BSOD because of this damn ati2dvag. Any thoughts or ideas?

I saw this on the front page so I thought this would be a good place to ask. Is it me or does it seem that since they can not get any of thier "gamer" cards to the public are they in trouble? This releasing PR copies of the card and little more seems like the company is having financial...

Anyone here know how and care to share how I could manually enter my motherboard into MM5? This uGuru software sucks and seems highly inaccurate. The board is an Abit AV8 and I have found what sensors it uses by using Everest and PC Wizard 2005. Everest: Abit MicroGuru (ISA E0h) PC Wizard...

Earlier today I put together my new motherboard and CPU combo (Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester and Abit AV8). I have been playing with the timings but it seems that anthing past 215Mhz is flakey. I have been running the same hard drive in my old ASUS P4P800 overclocked 24/7 no problems. Is the...

Earlier this evening I put in my new CPU and Motherboard but MM5 doesn't support the board (Abit AV8). The uGuru EQ seems clumsy at best. Anyone know of a monitoring program that is on par with MM5?

I have a new CPU on the way and have enough Nanotherm to use. Would I be better off calling around and getting some AS5?

*EDIT* I'm a moron, the 3400+ is socket 754. I want the onboard memory controller and be able to upgrade in the future fairly easily. Sorry to waste your time.

I do like how [H]ard tests video cards. They take the card and run it at the highest playable settings. I am assuming this way the people who read the article see can get an idea of how it will perform in their systems. I do have one complaint, not very many people have setups like the Test...

In a few weeks I'm coming across a few Benjamins and feel like upgrading. I am either going to buy a P4 3.2E or a BFG 6800 OC. I currently have a 2.4B @ 2.8 and a 9800 Pro @ 412/378. What would you do? *The answer I'm not looking for is buy an Athlon 64 or 6800 GT, etc... cause I don't...

This has to do with my parents computer. The Tbird was an old hand my down that I gave them but I think it's time I take if off their hands. I am going to build a new home server and I want something cheap. I have all the parts I need for it except the CPU, case and DVD ROM(have Linux Fedora...

I have a P4 2.4B stepping B0, yes it's old and sucks. I am not buying a new processor so please don't suggest it. I have a ASUS P4P800 motherboard and it seems to have a voltage problem. Right now I have it set to 1.6V in the BIOS but it will fluctuate like crazy until I put the CPU under...

A few months ago I played HL1 for the 1st time. I did this specifically to get the back story to HL2. After I finished the game my brother in law asked what was it about. I told him "I have no fucking clue". Here's what I took from HL1. I arrive at Black Mesa after an unnecessarily long...

Anyone know of a FREE program that allows you to trace an IP to the city/state/ISP of origin? I've tried tracert in the command prompt but it timed out at the last few hops and was unable to complete. It would be nice to have a nice user friendly program that says where it came from rather than...

Would it be terribly hard for a graphics card manufacturer to use a desktop chip for the GPU? Correct me if I am wrong (not the sharpest tool in the shed) but don’t CPU’s and GPU’s just calculate math equations to give the end result? Why couldn’t nVidia or ATi just take a mobile Barton or...