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So I have an i5-6600k at 4.7, with the midrange ga-z170xp-sli board. Unfrontunately the board has quite a bit of vdroop, it goes from 1.475 idle to 1.415 under load. So to get a decent OC the chip needs to idle at 1.475 to hit 1.41 at load. Will a high idle vcore do damage the way a high...

Is there a bios flash available for a 9800gt for 100% fan speed?

Hi, im running the latest cat 8.7 drivers on an unoverclocked 4850 with the fan at 100% and I am getting crash in world in conflict. The screen turns black and the pc doesnt reboot. Is this a known driver problem or is the card dead?

My friend has a pc that he is looking to upgrade. he cant afford to spend much but he wants a 4850. The psu is barely adequate for whats in the pc now so Its going to need to be upgraded as well. I have an enermax 431 watt psu that I could give him, it has 20 amps on the 12v rail, will this psu...

Is this any good? http://www.petrastechshop.com/loliredcoad.html

Hi, Im going to be refilling my w/c loop soon. I have been using swiftech hydrx, but I have read too much about it clogging up the loop after a while so im not going to use it again. The parts included in my loop are in my sig, do I need any corrosion protection? (afaik its all copper but Im...

Hey my friend is reinstalling xp home and has a home cd key, but he doesnt have an xp home disk, he has an xp pro disk. Will xp home still activate if windows is installed on the pro disk?

Im looking into these two pc for a quad core 8800gts g92 build, one is more powerful than the other and its cheaper, why is it cheaper, is there something wrong with that model? Am I better off spending more on the newer 520w version? This...

Hi, Im using catalyst 8.3 and my crysis fps are high, in the 30's and 40's, but the game is very jerky. I enabled vsync and that helped somewhat. What else can I do?

Im thinking of getting a 3870 or a 3870x2, but might just get a 3870 to hold me over until hd4000. I want to play crysis pretty much as good as I can play it with my 8800gt, but I have to switch over to ati b/c of compatibility issues. How do the 3870's overclock with the ref cooler? Is there...

If you remember my posts about r600 you may be surprised to hear I might be buying a 3870 x2 soon, but nvidias drivers dont seem to get along with fsx sp2, and im tired of it. Does it make sense to buy a 3870x2 with the hd4000 series apparently close to launch? I dont want to feel like I have...

There is alot of nervous talk going around about the new 45nm penryn cpus not being able to take alot of voltage. Right now people are saying to leave the vcore at 1.4 or less, 1.45 being the max. Some people have even reported failures at around 1.35v. It seems like heat is not going to be...

Im selling my e6850, as you can see from my sig its a proven overclocker and not very old, heres my ebay link. [no eBay Linking]

Hi, I need the best air cooler to cool a q6600 that will fit into this case http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-vf1000bws-lanbox-case-black.html

I want to run a 16 bit application in vista 64, is there any way to make it compatible somehow, so it will at least run.

Have the 64 bit nvidia drivers improved at all, im installing vista and i want to know if I should use 64 bit since I have 4gb of ram but I dont want performance to be worse.

I am going to install vista soon and I have a 64 bit and 32 bit disk and 4gb of ram. My main use for my pc is flight sim, and I also do some other gaming, mainly crysis and cod4. I want to be able to take advantage of my 4gb of ram but I dont want my performance to suffer because of bad 64...

I hope this hasnt been posted already, but if it has feel free to remove it. Heres a review from anandtech about the new 8800gts 512, showing it on par with the ultra until higher resolutions and aa are used. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3175&p=1

If anyone wants an 8800gt I have one from my step up that I can sell you, just pm me. Comes shipped unopened.

I know this seems silly because ddr3 still isnt goign to be a mainstream product for a considerable amount of time, but has there been any talk about retail ddr4 and a time frame?

I have the latest rivatuner edition that is supposed to support the 8800gt, but it wont control the fan speed the way it did with my gts, I have to open the hardware monitor with all the graphs and then it will set the fan on high at the temp that i set it to, but when i close it the fan stays...

Is it best to enable or disable the memory remap feature in bios for performance reasons?

I want my 8800gts's fan to run full speed all the time, but when i increase the speed in ntune it doesnt save it after a reboot. Even though i save the profile and make the profile load with windows, the profile loads but the fan speed is always the same.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034 Does anyone know if its d9 stuff? Corsair is usually good stuff right? Its either this or the ballistix, but money is tight and this has a nice rebate.

I recently put a fan on top of these components in the picture to cool the mosfet heatsink, what are they? (I dont mean the capacitor, I mean the box thing that says R50)

Does orthos or similar programs like occt stress the chipset as much as it would be in a very intensive game?

Im trying to track down a stability problem, my pc passes memtest for 15 hours and orthos for over 12, but it crashes in about 10 minutes in fsx. Im thinking its a chipset voltage or heat issue maybe? Ive got my spp at 1.5v, and the mcp at 1.7v, what are yours set to? My pc is watercooled so...

Is it safe for me to run my ram at 2.4v? I don't need it to last me 10 years, 3-4 is long enough, but I don't want them to fry on me. Ive got decent case airflow and a corsair dominator memory fan on there.

Is thermal surface remover and purifier electically conductive? A tiny bit spilled off the chip onto the board, should I be concerned?

What is the max safe chipset voltage using the stock heatpipe/fan config for the 680i?

I am building a laptop for someone and I want to use the geforce go 7600 but there are no vista drivers for it. Can I use regular geforce drivers for a go card? If not is it possible can I just not use the graphics card and use integrated graphics until things stabilize? Do barebone laptops...

As some of you may know I have recently built a new watercooling system consisting of the swiftech storm, mcp655 pump, and the new black ice gtx 360 triple radiator. I had said that I would post information about how it all worked out. This is by no means an in depth review but I think it is a...

I have an amd 3800+ x2 windsor core stepping: 2 , Revision: BH-F2. My Vcore is 1.55 right now at 2.81 ghz as opposed to 1.34v at 2.0. My idel temp is 36-37 and my load temp is about 48. Is this Normal? Also the radiator is cool to the touch and not blowing out hot air. My cooling...

Can I put 3 of these shrouds on a 3 x 120mm radiator? Will they fit?

I bought it from petras tech shop with the top combo, Ive had this thing for 2 days now, the first day it worked fine. Now the only way for me to get it on when i power on the pc is to give it several hard smacks with my hammer. What in hell is going on????

Is there any modding required to set up a push pull rad fan config, ie. is the bottom of the rad the same as the top as far as screws and mounting possibilities? I am considering going for the new black ice gtx 480 and putting 8 130cfm delta fans on it.

Hello, I have the AMD 3800+ X2 64 windsor stock 2.0, I am trying to oc to 3.0. Im at 2.6 on air and the only thing holding me back is the heat, about 61 load. I am building a wc loop to cool only the cpu, I have some radiator questions. Here it is: Pump: Laing DDC with petra's ddct-01 top...