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Recently I made an interesting observation. I have two systems, one running an i7 920 and a 4850X2 2GB, and another running an Opteron 165 @ 2.4Ghz and an 8800GT. I put Skyrim on both, and as expected, the older system could barely manage 25fps outdoors, even on lower settings, while the newer...

I can't see any point to it, and it forces people to make unnecessary posts to fix mistakes, which reduces the overall readability of the forum.

I'm using an L37S1 TV with my 4850x2, 10.3 drivers. I've found the under-scan option and set it to 0%, so it looks fine on my desktop. The trouble is when I enter any full screen app, ATI resets under-scan back to 7.5% for that app. I can alt-tab back to the desktop to change it, but then I'm...

I having trouble purchasing anything over steam, and I can't access the community forums. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

What happened to the GPU scaling options? It doesn't just not work, they aren't even there anymore? This new CCC is useless. I know the old one wasn't great, but this looks like something that was built for Windows 95. I cannot comprehend the level of incompetence that would lead a person to...

Hey, I'm new to overclocking Intel CPUs. The only overclocking experience I've had was with an Opteron 165, and I didn't push it too terribly hard. I have an i7 920 on an Asus P6T. I began by setting the OC profile to manual, disabling speed step, and then brought the CPU multi down to 12x...

How does PCI Clock Synchronization work? It would seem like the north and south bridges would have to have some kind of multiplier to be able to communicate with the bus. Does it use some kind of weird continuous multiplier or what? Although that seems unlikely... How else would you do it with...

I've got a WRT54G and this Encore ENLWI-N b/g/n network card, and I'm having a very strange problem. I can connect just fine with a great signal because I'm close to the router, but as soon as a I start browsing the Internet or downloading things, my connection speed drops. It starts out at 54...

This thing uses the same panel as the Planar PX2611W 26", which is about 200$ more. For 699$ this competes with 24" monitors of the same quality. Seems like a pretty good buy to me, especially if you're in the market for a new monitor...

Alright, I've been trying to get 5.1 audio to work with my X-Fi premium and Z-5500s for a while now. I have VLC and K-Lite with windows media player classic. I've been fooling with it for a while but I can't get the darn thing to work. Everything's set to 5.1 everywhere I can find to set it, but...

http://files.filefront.com/unreal3engine+e3zip/;3788266;/fileinfo.html Actually, I lied, this is the famous 2004 E3 UE3 demonstration. But really, watch it again, it's worth it. It's running real time on a single unreleased 6800Ultra (remember that PCI-E did not even exist at the time) DX10...

http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=503 Towards the bottom that article says, "During his speech, Nvidia’s senior vice president Dan Vivoli let slip that Nvidia intended to "launch new hardware to coincide with Crysis’ launch." Vivoli didn't elaborate, but the...

I'm having problems doing simple LAN file transfers from an XP PC to a vista PC. It starts the transfer but after a few seconds it give me this error: "There is a problem accessing (network folder) Make sure you are connected to the network and try again." It actually can transfer very...

Hey, I'm trying to install MS's Virtual CD mounting utility in XP x64 but I've run into a problem. I have to put a file in windows/system32/drivers, and that works fine. But then when I use the program to browse for the file and use it, it doesn't show up. I tried looking at all file types, and...

EDIT: Someone beat me to it.

Got it via. Widnows Upadate this morning. I wish I hadn't though, it broke my patched uxtheme.dll and now (of course) there are know compatible patchers. I wonder if I could just manually replace the SP1 uxtheme.dll. I guess there's only one way to find out. Anyway...

Hey, I'm looking to set up the PC in my room with a TV tuner so I can record TV shows. Nothing special, just something faster and more legit than *other means*. I live in Lousiville, KY so I should be be able to receive plenty of stations through antenna in HD. I also can use the family's TV...

Are random CTDs and occasion BLUE screens along with loss of power to USB devices a problem with a PSU or the MoBo? I'm using a Corsair 520watt PSU with an Asus P5n-E, and I don't know which to RMA. No luck switching stuff out because the problems will go away for a few weeks if we plug the PC...

I just got done putting together a new PC with specs as follows: E6600 8800GTS Asus P5nE- SLI 2GB of Corsair DDR800 RAM 150GB Raptor HDD and 320GB 7200RPM HDD. Corsair 520w PSU The big issue is that we keep getting these strange lockups. The mouse will stop responding, though it...

I have this really irritating problem. I'll just be sitting there and all the sudden I'll hear these voices that tell me to do this weird, sometimes disturbing stuff. So I was wondering if upgrading from onboard sound would fix this? I don't need much, do you think an Audigy 2 ZS would do the trick?

Here's what we've got so far: Case: Thermaltake Armor series - 150$ Fans: 2x SILVERSTONE FM121 120mm Case Fan 32$ GPU: EVGA 8800GTS 390$ PSU: Enermax Liberty 500W PSU -110$ CPU: E6600 313$ RAM: Corsair XMS 2GB 200$ HDD: 150GB Raptor 200$ Monitor: CHIMEI 221D-NBC 22" - 280$ (I haven't...

Would the Xmod make a decent laptop sound card if with some decent earbuds? I was going to get a mobile Audigy 2, but the laptop I want doesn't have a PCMIA port. Anyone had experience with this product?

Alrighty, I just bought an X-Fi Platinum, and I'm having some issues. I'm running XP 64bit so I got tthe X64 driver package and got everything running. Now I'm starting to have issues. First, I can't get the stupid remote to work. Do I need a special program or what? Second, I installed...

I just found this on New Egg. It must be fairly new; it's not an Asus's site, and all I got from Google was a crappy review, and a few German sites that listed the thing at 2000$+ or 1500 Euros+. I don't know weather this is a pricing error, a new product at a low price, or a really good...

I need to go ahead and remove Vista beta 2 form my PC. I don't want to format, but it's on a separate partition duel booting with XP. If if kill the e partition that it's on and do fix boot in the Xp recovery console will I be good again? Or do I need to rewrite the boot.ini first? Thanks.

Has anyone noticed that games have become more restrictive with resolutions these days. It's seems that many are preprogrammed to support only a few; 640x480, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. That's it! You have to resort to hacks and .cfg edits to get anything optimal! And worse almost any...

As we all know this will be the first CoD game not to come to PC. But are we really missing out? Including the MoH series, which is about the same thing, we've had nearly ten of these games, all covering almost the same thing. Frankly the first few were fun, but after so many games, the...

Hey, can anyone point me to a torrent or something that has a good non-cracked XP iso? The laptop a friend's buying, doesn't come with the disk (sigh), so we'll need that. *No, I'm not looking to pirate it, just looking for the .iso so I properly use MY LEGAL PREINSTALED OEM COPY OF XP ON THE...

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/14/windows_vista_flash_booster_tech/ I heard about this from a friend, but I didn't think that it would be true. Honestly, USB memory? Talk about your stupid, stupid ideas. You have at best a 60MB\s throughput to the system. But since the RAM has to go...

A minute ago I was doing nothing in particular, just on a forum, when suddenly the screen goes blank. "Odd", I think to myself, and eventually restart the PC. The monitor give some sort of power saving message that I'd never seen from it before and refuses to give signals from the PC. Reseat the...

Can I safely upgrade the Klipsch promedia 2.1 stat lites to Polk R15's? How about putting the klipsch satellites as rears on a Z5500? I don't want to kill anything with wrong impedance or anything?

I'm tired of the constant gloating and bickering. Don't come up with retarded benchmarks featuring insanely high end SLI crossfire that .0001% of us can ever buy, so that you can suddenly make CPUs more important, and so you can call Kyle a fan boy. You have not won. No one has one, you least...

Can anyone here recommend me a cheap receiver (100-150) to go with some Primus 150 or 160's, Polk R-10's or perhaps some Yamaha NS-6490's. (Can anyone tell me anything about that last speaker? Anyway I'll need a decent receiver. Doable at that price?

Hey, I'm 16 and not really eligible for a job in the field yet, but I'd really like to learn about large networks and their administration. Trouble is, I don't know much yet as I've never had an opportunity to look at a network larger than my little home router set-up. So, i need to learn. Any...

Hey. I think I have a problem. I just installed Vista on my C:\ partition. I've had XP on my E:\ partition and didn't touch it during the install. I figured it would automatically let me duel boot- two OS partitions, ect. Well, it doesn't give me that option on boot up. I really don't want to...

Hey, I have a question about building a PC audio system. This is for a friend but I might do one too. Anyway, we have a budget of hopefully no more than 250$ for the receiver and speakers. Do we need a dedicated sub, or will the sub in the bookshelf's be fine? We plan on getting an X-Fi music...

Why can't they guy who does Omega drivers enable crossfire on Nforce boards. It doesn't require a special chipset, just driver support. ATI could do it if they wanted. Of course ATI would be pretty ticked off at the Omega guy if he did that, but still...