Recent content by Tantalum

I used to do a bit of water cooling back when I overclocked my CPU and graphics card but I stopped after one of my water blocks leaked all over my power supply and hard drives. Lately though I have been wanting to push my system a little harder than air cooling can provide (mainly my GTS...

Well, it seemed stable at 2.0v with 7-7-7-12 timings, but it would crash on startup if I tried to bump the memory up to 1066Mhz (Closest I can get to 1000 with 5:4 linked FSB). I set the timings back to 7-7-7-18 and now it boots just fine with 1066Mhz, running Prime95 to test if it's stable...

(Motherboard is a 680i SLI, ram a 2Gb stick of Mushkin Enhanced Redline DDR2 PC8000) So this last week I made a thread about how the stick of memory in my desktop failed on me, and had to be RMA'ed. Well, I decided I might as well buy an extra stick of the same type so that I could have 4GB's...

That's what I was worried about, I remember someone trying something similar to this, he had planned on trying to wire his CPU to the motherboard socket so that he would not need to insulate the motherboard when using LN2. I want to try this, but my only motherboard I feel confident trying it...

I don't have any other ram I can use, (Posting this on my laptop) so I'm just going to submit an RMA request to Mushkin, I had thought that my warranty expired but it was only the Newegg warranty, Mushkin has a lifetime warranty on memory modules it seems.

But.. But.... It doesn't look too complicated to make myself!

I have two high end (1033Mhz) DDR2 SODIMM's in my laptop, would it be possible to use them in my desktop? I know they won't physically fit in the socket, but are the pins essentially the same? As in, if I solder a wire from each pin to the correct pin on the motherboard, would the ram work?

I'm using a E6850 CPU, 2GB (One Stick) of Mushkin Redline 1066Mhz Ram, 3 generic 320GB hard drives, an EVGA GTS 250 1024mb and a 680i SLI motherboard. I'm also using a Creative audigy 4 sound card. EDIT: Computer just failed prime95 with a rounding error. Guess that means my ram is bad after...

Well, I just got a SC2 beta key today (Yay), BUT if a game lasts longer than 10 minutes it CTD's, no errors, and it happens almost like clock work. At this point I'm getting a little pissed off, I have no idea if the problem is with my ram, or if it's something else. I had been using those...

I normally get errors when playing games, for example, BFBC2 will sometimes just randomly crash to desktop on me. The only game that complains about actual read/write errors is oblivion, which may be the result of a mod as the destination address for the read/write is always around 0x00000XXX...

I'm having some problems with my ram, or at least I think I am. Lately some of my programs have been crashing randomly and windows will blue screen blaming the nvidia drivers for messing something up, this continued even after I cleaned out my drivers and re-installed them. At the time I was...

So I just got a GTS 250 from Newegg and I am wondering which drivers I should install, from what I have been reading on these forums the past few days there is a chance that if I install the wrong driver I could end up breaking my mobo and/or video card. There is also the fact that some of...

Not sure if you have already made your choice yet, but I recommend looking into a Clevo W765TUN, 15.6" screen is a little big but it's very wide rather than tall and if you go for the higher priced display it has a 1600x900 resolution. I find the image on it to be very crisp and bright, so...

Decided to just send the card back for a full refund, I only hope the guy doesn't try and tell me I broke it somehow and choose not to refund my money. Even if I get the money back I still have the problem of no laptop >.<. Right now my only option is to get a card from the MxM-Upgrade...

Just got a reply from the seller, my options are to either trade this card in for his other listing(A Quardro FX770M) or get a full refund for the card and try to find another vender selling a 9800M GT for less than $500 or keep the card and get a partial refund. What would you guys...