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What games did you enjoy so much that you found yourself upgrading your rig with a new video card and or monitor, just so you could crank the eye candy up to the next level? Or maybe you HAD to upgrade because the game brought your current rig to its knees with its amazing visuals? This isn't a...

My NH-U12p SE2 wont make proper contact with my 2500k. I realised when i was getting huge idle and load temps that something was wrong and when removed the cooler and inspected, only a tiny line on the top and bottom edges of the CPU and heatsink actually made contact. I have tightened the...

"Wait until drivers mature" is a phrase that has been thrown around more and more over the years but is there actually any weight to the statement? Do newer drivers actually improve in game performance in single GPU situations? I always thought drivers were updated more as a...

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/3/3/sapphire-ready-to-launch-radeon-hd-5990-4gb.aspx Curios to know whether even Eyefinity sized resolutions with high AA/AF would even utilize 4gb of memory..

Well after 4 and a half years of heavy use my old Raptor finally failed. Thinking i was out of luck, i remembered WDs excellent 5 year warranty and quick and painlessly RMA'd it and received my replacement Raptor a week after i sent it. (had to send and come from Singapore so i was impressed...

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/10/07/first-look-ati-radeon-hd-5770/1 *LINK NO LONGER WORKS, ARTICLE REMOVED FOR NOW* Does that mean no software voltage adjustments? :confused:

Want to know if the Gigabyte brand HD4890 (GV-R489-1GH-B specifically) features the Volterra chips that allow software adjustment of voltage? Link to card http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3087 I have tried searching for info on it but searches only bring...

Im looking to buy a new hard drive for my gaming rig and looking at various benchmarks it seems that some lower capacity hard drives have a higher average/max throughput but much slower access times than their higher capacity counterparts. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320gb = 99.2 MB/s Avg Read...

Theoretically it would be a 25% increase in clock speed alone, plus all the extra cache, but i'm just wondering if it would actually equate to being at least 25% faster? Will be used mostly for gaming and browsing. I also want to upgrade my RAM. Am currently running 2 x 1 gb ocz platinum and...

I need some help deciding which brand of x1900xt to buy. This will be the first ATI card i have bought. My current card is a BFG 6800GT. I have been very happy with it. It died once after about 12 months of heavy use, and BFG replaced it, sending it here to Australia via Express Airmail which...

Hi, I'm trying to OC my 3800+ Newcastle but when i set my CPU voltage at over 1.5625 volts, my PC just locks up at the ASUS enter BIOS screen, even at stock speed and i have to reset my CMOS. Any other A8N-SLI Deluxe owners ever had this problem? Temps are fine at 1.55 volts and the...

Hi all, Attempting my first OC and im having some trouble finding my max CPU speed. I can get my system stable at 216.46 x 12 (2597) @ 1.5625 volts but when i bumped it up to 219 x 12 prime95 failed. When i try to raise the CPU voltage past 1.5625 ( in .0125 increments) my system locks up at...