Recent content by rokk

Oh, I did a search, but the odd 3 in the forum title was my miss, I used a regular 3. Yes, I know they're quite different. But as they're both on sale they're both offering quite good Value for the money compared to other monitors in the pricerange. Hence the choice of theese 2 monitors. I've...

I'm thinking about getting a new monitor since my current one is a temporary screen which is in no way suited for what I do, or would like to have. I live in sweden and right now, 2 monitors are on sale. The Dell 2209WA eIPS 22" which goes for roughly 218 €, and the NEC Multisync 24WMGX3...

Happy to be of help, hope it works out for you! As long as the temps are kept in check and the PSU is not exhausting overly heated air, all is fine.

My front ports on my case works just fine with my Xonar DX anyhows, not tried the onboard yet.

Just like the other people said, get a good 320GB platter drive like the WD Blue, it will give you a pleasant boost in gaming performance. It should lower loadingtimes and filter out some ocasional loading-stuttering. Regarding the case... I like the NSK3400 for high performance parts. Mainly...

The WD green-drive is almost dead silent while the Barracuda sounds like a freighttrain and vibrates as much as one too. And it generates more heat as well... If you want a good combo of speed and noise while keeping vibrations from the disk in check, go for a 640GB WD Blue.

We will see a variety of boards soon after the official launchdate of the processor. Overclocking theese new processors will be fine and pretty good with the first wave of boards it seems. I for one, is going to wait for the second generation of the processor. Motherboards are way to expensive...

Let us get this straight, say for instance that the card is drawing almost all of it's power from the SINGLE 12V rail it has. now say that the card is pulling a hefty 200W (that's pretty overkill) load of the 12V rail. Now basic math tells us that this 200W load on the 12V rail measures up to...

Electronics can give off odd smells when they're running very hot. The PSU is 100% Adequate for his setup so the explaination is most likely that it's running too hot and is causing the smell due to high heat. Mind you the Corsair VX450 have Capacitors rated at 105*C and a fully working...

The VX 450 is fine for your setup, Corsair even recommends the VX450 for 4870 setups with Dualcores. The issue you might have is that since you're using a 4870 with the non 'dustblower' design that normally leads alot of heat out of the case.. now your PSU is sucking up that heated air and...

It fits, plus the PSU rests on some supports so it should be fine. Just be wary of the that PSU may get in the way of a too deep CD/DVD-drive.

I got my board refunded today, going to replace it with something else, like the older P5E-VM or Gigabyte G33M-DS2R.

Tried out a friends board, damn I were impressed with it. I were able to reach 570Mhz FSB and 1140mhz om my Kingston DDR2's, at which point my memorysticks held me back.

Usually boards overclocks worse with integrated than with dedicated, so you need to try another graphicscard. Preferably Newer ATi to confirm.

Hello dear HardOCP-forumers... I'm coming with an update from a mailing conversation with some nice guys over at Anandtech! They're saying that certain combos on the P5Q-EM leads to bad FSB overclocks, for example with a 260GTX they did hardly breach 400, but with ATi's 4670 they managed to get...