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    4850 - monitor goes to standby after WinXP boot

    Had the exact same thing happen to me and my 7950gx2. Worked fine till one day it would go blank after the xp screen. EVGA RMA'd my card no problem (and like usual gave me a better card in return 8800gts woot), but the card worked flawlessly for almost 2 and a half years and then pow no...
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    Enermax Revolution85+ 1050W @ [H]

    Has anyone seen a [H] type of review for the 850w version? I think the demo units that Enermax sent around were all the 1050w version. 1050w is nice and all but I more want the high efficiency and quite operation for a machine that will be ~150w idle to 500w load. Right now my 600w has...
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    UPS sugguestions

    Whatever UPS you end up choosing, make sure it has user serviceability. UPS units themselves regularly last over a decade (my experience with ~200 UPS units of varying sizes and brands that were user serviceable). By replacing the batteries in a unit you can, for cheap, have a perfectly working...
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    5000+ BE overclocking and QnC

    Don't know about what board you have nor if am2 changed anything but my 939 DFI board allows me to run at max speed for games and then cuts it in half for idle operation. I have my board set to 270x10,10 being the highest my locked mutli will go, can go lower but why? Locked multi is not...
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    Radeon 3870 vs 7950 gx2

    SLI efficiency never came into play, nor did I care. I tested older games and basic computer usage. To me if SLI didn't work then yeah it would perform bad, but it works in everything I use my computer for so SLI from a performance standpoint is a moot point. Now I *HATE* SLI because of its lack...
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    Radeon 3870 vs 7950 gx2

    ** Added 8800GT results and comments to conclusions ** Best buy last week had the Visiontek Radeon 3870 overclocked version for $140 out the door with no rebates so I picked one up. I liked the external exhaust aspect as it would help cool my chipset without having to crank up the noisiest...
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    Vista won't go into sleep mode...

    my rig does the same thing, except it has never worked. I cannot get it to sleep in vista under s3 power mode, but s1 works just fine. I just assumed it was the motherboard and the way it handles the overclock, but our systems are vastly different so who knows.
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    Service pack 3 on Windows update.

    Searching the download site I cannot find a stand alone posted yet. .. hmmm I know its around somewhere
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    Video card not stable at stock clocks?

    You have more than enough power. that rig if at stock speeds full tilt i doubt your pushing 200w. My oc'd to all hell sli'd 4 gig system with 2 hd's doesn't pull more than 240 at full tilt. That measuring from the wall with a power meter. I was having random game crashes and bsod's with my...
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    Need help figuring out what mobo this is.

    OEM Board with an Intel chipset for a p3 that uses sdram... no agp with integrated video... I guess an 810 or 815, Max ram no matter what is 512 MB, not sure if 1 x 512 would work. Check it out here. Also you can easily look at the northbridge chip (the chip turned 45 degrees...
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    Single video card for 1920*1200 gaming

    My 7950 gx2 works ok at 1920 x 1200. You might be able to pick one of these up for cheaper than the alternatives listed such as a gtx or gts 512, and its about the same speed. Remember 8800 gtx was about a 2x improvement over 7900 gtx, 7950 gx2 is little slower than a 1 x 7900 gtx, etc...
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    ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Drawing

    Trade my 7950 gx2 for a 3870 x2... lets hope amd's vista drivers are better then nvidia's. :rolleyes:
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    Newegg / [H]ardOCP AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition Drawing

    1. What would you do if you won an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition CPU? Step 1. Cut a hole in the box. Step 2... 2. What is the name of the new AMD next-generation desktop processor? Quad Cores (9000 series) Phenom 9500 (2.2 ghz) Phenom 9600 (2.3 ghz) Phenom 9700 (2.4 ghz)
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    Cant get my CPU past 2.42

    Well having never owned or played with any other 939 board than my own, I can only relate my oc experience, but here it goes. My first oc: I updated my bios, then reset bios to defaults, lowered ht multi from 5x -> 3x, lowered ram from 1:1 -> 2:1 then changed ht from 200 ->250, I got...
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    my 7800gt stoped overclocking.....

    My 7900gt exhibited this failure to overclock about 5 months before it started going belly up. My card had bad ram, so run a video ram test like burn in test's 2d video test etc. My 7800gt also would stop oc'ing exactly as you describe but I stepped up so fast that I never really tinkered with...
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