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I installed a Soundblaster Z PCI-e audio card (ASUS P8Z77V mobo) and found that the card's mounting hole would not line up with the case's mounting hole unless I tilted the card backwards, such that it was only partially recognized by windows because it wasn't making full contact with the mobo...

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Drat, and as you can tell I won't have the info you need, lol! Perhaps this is too general of a question, but if you had a monte carlo application that is essentially one big loop, for example (in very very simple terms) : for (i = 0; i<= 100,000,000; i++) { for (j = 0; j<= 100,000,000...

Would reducing the number of VMs (E.g., going from 6 to 3) produce faster execution times of programs (e.g., Excel macros) then? I realize this is a broad question, I've just been trying to figure out if perhaps this means there's too many VMs, or if perhaps they're not configured properly...

Sorry! (I was actually just thinking the same thing) Desktop is a i5 650 @ 3.2ghz; 8gig ram, 4 cores I'm unfamiliar with the VM setup; however, there are apparently 6 virtual machines, all the same. According to y-cruncher the vm details for the one I tested on are a x5650, 2.7ghz, 2gig...

I'm a noob to a VM environment, but I'm trying to figure out if this is normal or not. On my desktop computer if I run ycruncher it calculates to 50M places in 40seconds. (yes, slooooooooooooooooooow, lol) If I run a financial Excel VBA macro, it takes 4minutes to execute. If I log...

But htat doesn't apply to every car. My Z06 makes my penis |................................| that much bigger than a regular corvette. Same with a ACR viper vs a regular viper. Come on, use good cars as a comparison, not a Z28 vs an SS camaro ;)

Picked up an E8500 - I really havn't been into overclocking since yeaaaaaaaaaars ago (pretty much when we were playing with jumpers on the mobo, haha), so I really don't know what this chip can/can't do safely. With an Asus p5q, artic cooler 7 freezer pro, can I just raise the FSB 10% (and...

Interesting - I guess after years of playing games like Angband I'm just happy to have graphics that conist of more than a '@' :D

Because of teh jaggies!!!! :rolleyes: Seriously though, I never understand AA/AF/etc... with resolutions above like 16x12. You can't really see any difference

that should have read 1130, not 1030

I tried playing around with the o/c on my new 8800 ultra (xfx) - went from 612/1080 to 675/1130. In 3dmark05, I gained like 30 3dmarks. In some games I tested I gain maybe 1-2fps. Does that seem right - a ~10% overclock on teh card yielding absolutely nothing? I tried tuning with ntune, then...

I've never applied thermal paste before, but I read allt he do/don't and did it - if I did it improperly and the chip were going to die as a result of its improper application, how quickly would it happen? Right away, or a few days/months/etc.....? It's been running several hours and...

In a non-gaming environment (geo-physics rendering environment), what type of geforce card would a fx1700 be equivilent to? I initially wanted to use some 7800GTXs in my workstations, but I'm being told ot use duel FX1700s instead....

Apparently it was a negotiation problem - I tried all the settings, they all failed except for Force 100 full duplex. What i can't figure ot is why, for example, force 10 full duplex, or force 100 half duplex, or even autonegotation failed to pick it up?

I have a VPN router - linksys BEFVP41 If I plug it into my desktop, I will get a 'power' light and an 'internet' light, but no ethernet light. If I plug it into my laptop it works flawlessly If I unplug it from my desktop, plug it into my laptop (ethernet light turns on), then...

I have a basic understanding of VPNs and remote access, but no idea if this is possible Let's say you've written a web server database application. Basically uses PHP/MySQL. You've got it up and running with Apache on 443 (SSL) and have tested it. So anybody anywhere can connect to the...

I'm working on a server at home and have a problem (although the solution is an easy one, i just can't seem to think of it right now) - the server only has a VGA input. I only have LCDs. DVI + VGA = no fitty obviously. I need to boot up the server and work with it, but I can't figure out what...

I'd love to try to use sata ports 3/4 only, but unfortunately i need all 4 ports (that's what I get for building a gaming/work server, haha) Oh well, I guess maybe i should just be happy w/ a 5% o/c. :confused:

I have an amd 4800+, asus sli-premium and SLI'd 7900GTXs, and 2gb corsair ram Cooling is a Zalman fan (i forget the model) .....the problem is I can't seem to overclock past 5%.....5% everything runs smoothly and perfectly. try to get to 6% and I can boot into windows, but 3dmark crashes...

^^^ FEAR blows ass for optimizations - even on an SLI 7800GTX setup it sucks big time.....there was actually one level (where the SWAT trucks drive into alleys) where I swear to god the framerate was 5fps. fucking POS.

1600x1200, everythign on.............timedemo scores were 55/91/270 FEAR is a buggy unoptimized POS imho - there were times when the game, for no reason in certain screens, would slow down to a crawl.

interesting; dont know about hl2, but in counter-strike:source my temps are pretty low.

interesting...thx for the explanations.

Why is it that my video cards (SLI'd 7800gtx 512) have different temperatures in different games? For example, in FEAR my highest peak tempreatures are 82/84 In Quake 4, they're about 73/76 In Vampire: Bloodlines, they're 66/69 ? edit: i don't mean that the cards have different...

nope, your core must just suck. I hit 6.5ghz with stock cooling. Honest.

Rate my system Viewsonic Vp201s LCD SLI'd 7800GTX 512mb 4800+ o/c'd to 2.6ghz (zalman air cooling) enermax 550watt sli power supply (forget the model name) 1gig pc4000 corsair dual channel ram asus a8n-sli premium RAID 0 400gig hd and a spare non-raid 160gig drive for my music, isos, etc..

6.5ghz

My temps are 46/50 when not under load (SLI'd btw), and they go up to maximum of 80/83 during load (like playing FEAR for 2hrs) I don't know how some of you are getting 60s under full load unless you're watercooled or doing something gay like tabbing out of the game to the temperature monitor...

on my old rig, x800xt pe agp(4x), p4 2.8ghz@3ghz i played FEAR at 1600x1200 with everything on except FSAA and soft shadows, and it was perfectly playable. From the timedemo frames were 23/40/70, so more than playable Although I do enjoy it much mroe on my current setup - now my timedemo is...

Interesting.....out of curiousity then, what's going to happen though in the future when they have, say, the GeForce 9800GTX Ultra kooper-pooper edition card that needs a 800watt PSU and also an external power brick? Will it still function? (basically what I'm trying to figure out then is if...

How are youg etting an almost extra 10003d marks from just o/cing the video card??? (unless you also meant cpu too)

My friend has this PSU in his rig (SLI'd 7800GTX 512mbs) http://www.enermax.com.tw/english/Product_Display1.asp?PrID=7 I don't understand; the 12v rail is only 20A, and it only makes 400W.....how can 2 512mb 7800GTXs possibly function on it (and they do, seen it w/ my own eyes)???

OMG - I think I finally got it to overclock a bit - for the hell of it I updated to Asus's BETA bios and now it's actually moving a little bit. Using HTT link 3x, vcore 1.4375, multi 12x, htt 224 it's actually stable.,.......prime95 has been running w/o errors, and the CPU temperature is...

I had my friend build my latest setup (I'm just too lazy these days ^_^ ).......only problem is that he did the wiring job from hell..........probably a stupid question, but is it possible to get longer than stock wires (e.g., longer than stock SATA hd wires, vga-slot cooler fan wires, etc....)...

I live in Calgary (alberta - canada)....you're free to come up here to visit me ^_^ I locked the PCI bus and played with everything, it just isn't going. The only thing I havn't tried is to move to sata port 3 and 4, but that's not feasible right now - i had my friend build my rig for me (too...

....Interesting.....do you have more info on it (the sata ports......i can't imagine that they would limit my o/c abilities....) Btw, yea, somehow if stock vcore is 1.35ish i don't think i want to go to 1.65, haha ^_^ I upped the vcore to 1.45 (highest I want to go) and I couldn't boot...

I don't even have stock cooling - using a Zalman.....my CPU is nice and cool, it just doesn't want to o/c :cry:

i like asus :D ...........plus o/c'ing isn't really my main goal; i figured a 10% o/c would be more than possible regardless of board. Like I said - i'd bet my hat that this is an issue relating to the CPU itself - w/ cpu multi lowered to 5, I can hit 300+ in the htt. With cpu multi at...

this is my 2nd mobo - last week i had a different one (asus 8an-sli premium, but an earlier version) and I hit the exact same problem. I figured it was my ram (was using kingston value ram at that time)...........turns out not. I just don't think my core can oc/ very well