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Greetings. I am a neophyte overclocker at best. But being curious, I armed myself with a CM 212 Evo HSF, researched the best I could and decided to follow this guide as much as I could. I ran into an issue however when I found that my motherboard does not allow me to set the VTT voltage...

Greetings I recently placed an order for an EVGA 460. In my haste when I ordered it I forgot to check the PSU requirements. Now that I have looked at it I noticed it is recommended to have at least a 450W PSU with +12V current rating of 24A. Well my PSU obviously can meet the wattage...

Greetings! I have determined that I need to upgrade my video card. I also want to switch over to the green team since I am somewhat unhappy with AMD/Radeon/etc. Emberassingly enough I do not know much about nVidia and am beginning my research. I was hoping someone could point me in the right...

Hello. First of all I wish to thank the forum community for they assistance to me in the past with a couple of systems I was building. I also wish to apologize for not following up on their help with success/sob stories, pictures, etc. But I am thankful for the help. I hope this is not the...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Nearly entirely for gaming however I will be doing a fair amount of multitasking as well. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? ~$1400 to my door. 3) Where do you live? Kentucky 4) What exact parts do...

Hello video gurus. Right now I'm working on a hardware upgrade for my gaming system I built about two years ago. What brings me here though is I'm mainly trying to make sure I don't buy a video card that will become quickly obsolete while yet providing me a great bang for buck upgrade...

Saw this on ebay as a buy-it-now. I'd pick it up but it's just not going to happen before the time is up on it. Just to give you an idea of the price ranges out there, here is priegrabber's prices Here is the link for Newegg's price And here is the ebay link. One nice thing about...

Hey all. Thanks for taking the time to check out my post. I did check out the sticky above so I've answered the questions below accordingly then I'll go ahead with some words of my own... basically what the situation is is that I need a performance upgrade for my gaming PC I put together about...

Hey everyone. I'm planning on enrolling at UF for majoring in Computer Science in the Fall of '06. Just wondering if anyone can help me out a bit before I get there, maybe throw some advice my way. I'm not exactly sure what I want the end result(career) to be yet. Maybe any books I should...

Question. How long do you let your system run before shutting down or rebooting and why? Just something I've always been curious about but never really knew wat the best thing to do was. Regards, -Freeman2k6

Hey everyone. Kind of curious about something. Not sure if this has already been addressed.... I'm getting the 7800GTX GPU. Trying to decide between the BFG OC or the XFX OC. Only real difference I see is the increased core clock speed. But from what I've read, core clock isn't really too...

Anyone used this board? Or know someone who has? I'm considering it as part of my build before I put in my final order...well it's either that or the P180. Anyways, anyone have any experience and/or opinions on it? Thanks much...

Hey all you P180 owners. :) I'm ordering one for myself soon and I have a couple of questions. The main one..I'm planning on ordering this power supply. But after looking at the back of the case and at the pictures of the PSU, I'm beginning to think that the PSU's rear fan grill will get in...

I'm planning to get the Maxtor DM10 300GB 16MB-OEM. Since it's not coming with Maxtor's software, will XP have any issues detecting/partitioning it? Thanks much. -Freeman2k6

While perusing the manual for my coming mobo, the ASUS A8N SLI-Premium(thanks to riggs58 for the DL) I noticed that there are only 2 fan connectors for the Chassis fans. I'm getting the P180 which has(I believe) 3 Chassis fans stock, 1 in the front, 1 in the back and 1 on the top, with 1...

I've heard that the ASUS A8N SLI-Premium is not compatible with this ram.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146545 Anyone know the truth of this? Does anyone know of a 2x1GB set of RAM that is compatble? This problem has thrown a wrench in my parts setup and delayed...

I just ordered my parts for my welcome home present to myself. I realize this is my 3rd thread of this sort, however, this one is a bit different...in the past I was asking for suggestions...not I have ordered, and am asking if anyone can forsee(from experience or hearsay) any issues I may run...

I ordered one of these yesterday...what's all the hype about it warping the board? Any truth to this? I'll have it on a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum in an Antec P180...Just wanna make sure I didn't screw myself on this.. Anyone using it now? How do you like it. Thanks -Freeman2k6

Lookin for some decent 2GB of RAM..anyone know about this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820227210 Thanks much. -Freeman2k6

Has anyone here had any experience with this program? I am looking at getting Norton's Systemworks 2005 Premier. Any thoughts? Thanks -Freeman2k6

Hey again everyone. A month or so ago I posted my system build parts here...it's been a while and I've made a few changes--due is a large part to suggestions here. I wanted to post that new list here for evalution...since I am in Iraq, and the only information I can get is from the internet...

I've been looking for this case but Chenbro's Website seems to be down. I've read alot of good reviews on this case...any info anyone? Anyone know of anywhere else to buy it? Nothing comes up on pricegrabber. Thanks much! -Freeman2k6

disclaimer: If this has already been asked, I apologize, please don't flame :) Hey everyone. Some of you may have seen my post earlier about my system build. That is plan a) for my "welcome home from Iraq" present to myself. Plan b) is to go with an Alienware. The only problem is that...

Hi, this is my first post. However, I've been reading the forums for a while and I've learned alot! So now that I'm posting, the sky's the limit. I'm currently deployed in Iraq, I'm coming home soon, so I've begun to compile a parts list for a "welcome home" present to myself. It's going...