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Recent content by tjb117

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    Transcoding Videos in Handbrake Overheats 2500K+Stock Cooler

    If you're not overclocking, the stock cooler should be fine. It will warm up pretty good using handbrake, but shouldn't be getting that hot imo. When you put the Arctic Silver on, did you scrape off the thermal compound that comes pre-applied with the stock cooler? The only thing I can...
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    1156 mounting kits

    That was the perfect post, thanks! I really like my s1283, and really didn't want to spend any more money just to get a new cooler since mine isn't that old and works good. I went ahead and ordered a thermalright mounting kit (before I saw your post). I needed some more thermal compound...
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    1156 mounting kits

    I'm going to be upgrading to a Core i5 system soon, and would like to reuse my Xigmatek s1283 HSF. It looks like they are releasing their own version, but no one seems to have it in stock. On my current system, I'm using the Thermalright bolt-thru kit and it worked with no problems. My...
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    Help me decide on upgrade!?!

    Thanks for all the advice so far! vanilla_guerilla - you make a good point, and that was my only hesitation with going with the q9550 is that I'm investing in s775, which for all intents and purposes is dead. Would I not see any or very little performance increase by upgrading (to either...
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    Help me decide on upgrade!?!

    I only do mild over clocking now, but no where near what most people do here. That was another thing I was looking at was the energy efficiency factor. I wasn't sure how much more/ess an i5/i7 was then my q6600. Anyone know? I know the q9550 would be, which was part of the reason I thought...
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    Help me decide on upgrade!?!

    I'm planning on moving to Windows 7 here shortly, and I have the itch to upgrade some of my hardware as well (even though my current setup runs everything for me just fine) I don't game much at all, but do a good amount of encoding and photoshop type tasks. Basically, I'm looking at 3...
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    Intel Core i7 Full System Drawing @ [H]

    count me in!
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    me too. So far so good...
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    I'm gonna keep an eye on mine, as I'm hoping it was simply a driver issue. Since you've got Vista too, I'm starting to think our problems are related. Especially since right now, everything I'm running is stock, so nothing is overclocked and all the voltages are standard, and everthing...
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    jkw - that is the exact same thing I was seeing on my screen that I described in the original post. I'm really starting to think it's the 8.3 driver at fault. I've gone 2 days now without this happening, since I totally removed the 8.3 driver and cleaned the registry, and then reinstalled...
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    I uninstalled 8.3, cleaned out the registry to get rid of any possible traces, and installed 8.2. I'll see if that makes any difference. I've got my camera out now and ready for it to happen so I can grab a pic. Of course, now that I want it to happen, so I can show you, it won't. But I...
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    Both PSU's I listed are new, so I've all but ruled them out as the problem. I wanted a modular one, that's why I grabbed the corsair. I guess technically it could still be, but the possibilities of 2 new, different brand PSU's being bad is pretty slim IMO. From what I've read and been told...
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    I'm not real sure how to tell. The original one my case came with (and that I swapped back in there last night to test psu's) is an: Antec Earthwatts 500w http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007 The other one I bought and had in there is a Cosair HX520...
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    I'm using the latest 8.3
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    Defective Video Card? Please help!!!

    I was hoping you guys could please help me out... I recently built a new system and everything has been running great until recently and I'm at wits end trying to pinpoint the problem. Anyways, here goes... The computer boots up into Windows fine, and everything seems normal, then all of...
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