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I'm moving away for 6 months possibly up to 6 years. I originally wanted to ship my gaming rig (i5 and 6970 CF) whole in its original case, however I've read a lot of horror stories about computer shipping and the abuse the packages take from careless workers. Since I might be moving up to 4-6...

Any thoughts on this PSU? I know [H] gave it a bad rating because it failed at full load, however JonnyGuru and HardwareSecrets both sang it the utmost praises. Which one do I trust? I have the opportunity to buy it brand new for $100 CAD tax in, should I take it?

I'm putting together my new Sandy Bridge 2500k / Asus P8P67 rig. I already have a 5850 that's clocks 900/1250 with absolutely no problems, and I now I have the chance to buy an almost new XFX non-reference 5870 for $160CAD/$170 CAD depending on if I get it mailed or delivered, I just have a...

I'm running a 5850 (10.3a preview drivers) on Windows 7. I just got my DP->VGA adapter but eyefinity isn't working. I have two 23" inch monitor (Acer X233H via DP->VGA adapter and H233H via DVI) on the sides of a 32" LCD TV (1360x768, via DVI->VGA adapter). so 23" (DVI) - 32" (DVI->VGA) - 23"...

If I'm gonna run eyefinity with a display with native resolution 1360x768 and 2 others with 1280x1024, what resolution would eyefinity let me fun? possible to run 4080*768? (I know 1360 is above the horizontal native resolution of the two displays, but I have a 15" Benq whose native...

It seems that the driver only allows the option to select SSAA on the 5 series cards, does anyone know how to enable the option for a 4870x2? Just to make it clear, this is not adaptive AA or edge detect, but the new (actually very old) supersampling that ATI introduced for the 5 series cards...

I've discovered something that's really quite odd to me and I'm just wondering if anyone can shed any light on what's going on. I'm running 4870x2 with Cat 9.9, all options set to App. Vista 64, Q6600 @ 3.3Ghz Everything in game has this soft filter look to it, like there is some sort of...

Is the Vista OS any good? A lot of people bash it and say it's crap and failure of an os, is it true? How does it compare to XP and 7? Just wondering what everyone's opinion is.

I just reinstalled Starcraft on my ultimate X64 system. But when I go on bnet, it shows me a update msg, and after the update has finished downloading, it gives an error while being applied, here's the error from the update log Everytime I run it it's a different file that causes the...

I'm using 4870x2 with 8.12 driver under Vista X64, I'm using the new ATI 1.22 core, and according to GPUZ, while folding with the GPU2 client, my gpu load is max 54%, it never goes any higher. Under windows desktop 1st gpu usage is 0%, then when i start folding, it tops out at 54%, my 2nd gpu is...

I have a Q6600 G0 running at 3.3ghz (470x7) on a Asus P5K Premium. My temps at 100% folding load are 54-58c across the four cores according to coretemps. My vcore is 1.465v (left it on auto in the bios) load, 1.6v pll, 1.4v vnb, 1.4v fsb termination, 1.2v vsb, 2.25v on my 4gb of PC6400 running...

Hey guys, right now I'm running a Q6600 B3 that takes 1.4v to go up to 3.2ghz with my Arctic Freezer Pro 7, but the core temps go up to 70c under prim95. I'm looking to cool down the temp and maybe getting a bit better o/c, two coolers are within my budget, the Freezer Xtreme and the Sunbeam...

Does anyone know between these two sets, which one would overclock better? OCZ PC2-8500 REAPER HPC http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_8500_reaper_hpc_4gb_edition OCZ PC2-8500 Platinum 4gb...

Please bear with me guys, i really need help...thanks in advance. I have a Q6600 on a P5B Deluxe Wifi AP with 4 gigs of OCZ platinum rev 2. and 4870x2 I had the Q6600 running at 3.2ghz with 355x9. The vcore was 1.4125 volts, the cpu ran 50c idle and around 71c on full load under prime95 I...

Does anyone know if any of the chips on the PCB of 8800 GTS 512MB other than the gpu and ram needs extra cooling after being vmodded? I noticed the stock heatsink had thermal pads on the series of 12 (3 per group) little ics along the right hand side of the card close to the power connector...

1. When I use DTS Interactive or Dolby Digital Live encoding while playing a stereo source like an mp3 file or watch a video with stereo sound, there is sound coming from all 5 speakers of my Speaker system. How could this be when the source is only 2 channels? NO DSP was used, Neo PC and 7.1...