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So for Battlefield 3 I decided to go sll out and do a near-full upgrade of my system. New CPU, MOBO, RAM, GPU, an SSD etc. Only parts I've carried over are the PSU and three hard drives. However I've noticed a faint, high pitched whine coming from my new machine. For the past few days I've been...

I was considering just grabbing a new processor, but then I'd have to go through the hassle of unmounting my current CPU and heatsink, cleaning off both with cleaning solution, and buying new RAM anyway as I doubt I'll be able to get much higher with 4 sticks of RAM. And if I'm going to be...

Corsair TX650W

I would but unfortunately it's hard to push it much more without some tweaking I'm not terribly comfortable with. When I had 2 x 2 gig sticks I had it running around 3 or 3.2 gigs, but with 4 sticks the most I can do is 2.8.

I'm not very happy with my performance in my most played games at the moment (TF2 and the BF2 mod Forgotten Hope 2), and I'd like to beef up my system a bit without going all out and building a completely new one. My current setup is: E4500 OC'd to 2.8Ghz 4870 512MB Gigabyte P35 DS3-L rev...

I tried multiple times on that site, and it keeps loading the page where you enter the cd key/bot test after I enter the key with the following up top: "We're sorry, the following error(s) have occurred: No offer found." Which doesn't exactly tell me what is wrong here. Is it possible...

Here's the deal: My university listed on its CSSD site that it provides Vista Ultimate for free for students, so I picked it up as I'd like to bump myself up to 4 gigs of RAM. I assumed it would be like the retail release and allow both 32-bit install as well as 64-bit. Upon getting it, I find...

I bumped up the voltage on the MCH and that seemed to do the trick. I also glued a 40mm fan to it when I first got the mobo about a year ago. I'm actually pretty sure I did so after you mentioned it in another thread. Thanks a lot for the help.

First my setup: Core 2 Duo E4500 (OC'd to 3Ghz) Gigabyte DS3-L 2 gigabytes of G.Skill RAM Radeon 4870 512MB XP Pro My set up has been the same for the past year (except getting the 4870 a few months back, but I highly doubt that's the issue), and this overclock has been very stable...

This game is seriously underrated. It's a full $60 worth of game, which was a bargain at $40, and at $25 it's a steal...

Here, here and here. There are more if you make the right google query.

I'm looking to make the OS jump since I'd like to bump myself up to 4 gigs of RAM for gaming, but I have two options available to me. On one hand, I can get Vista Ultimate from my university for free. On the other, I can get Server 2008 from Dreamspark for free. Looking around, it seems that in...

Would it be advisable for one to get this and use it instead of shelling out money for Vista?

I found a Corsair 650TX 650W PSU in Dell's online shop for only $70. Is that also a known quality unit?

I just purchased a Radeon 4870 and found that it requires two PCI-E power connectors, while my current PSU (an XCLIO Goodpower 480W) only has one. As such, I'm going to need a new PSU (since I've heard that using a Molex to PCI-E adapter cable on high end cards usually ends in tears). Right now...