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    How do I undervolt a i5-4670? (going crazy.,,)

    I have a i5-4670 and a asrock z97m formula. I'm trying to lower the cpu voltage- by bios- as much as possible. Only issue: whatever I do, the voltage stays the same. This is what I tried: -vcore override voltage : both in auto or setting it to 1.000v doesn't have any effect. Cpu-z always...
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    Palit Sonic 460 :extreme undervolt

    I want play games, but silence come first. I have this card in a small case, and just under the fan of the vga, almost attached, I have an audio card. I want to lower temperatures as much as I can so that the fan rotation won't increase too much during games. Even if I underclock the card to...
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    Palit Sonic 460 :extreme undervolt

    Hi guys, I'm trying to undervolting (and downclocking accordingly) a Palit 460 sonic 1024 vga . With MSI-Afterburner/Kombustor the card seems stable with 0.825v @650/1700 under stress. Now if possible I want make changes effective with a bios mod, and possibly insert even lower voltages. As i...
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    Did anyone buy an Intel mainboard?

    I'm not looking for overclock, I'm looking for vt-d support in the bios, fan control support and voltages support (to decrease power consumptions).
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    Did anyone buy an Intel mainboard?

    On the online shop where I want to buy components for a new pc, the only mainboard (B£ step) for socket 1155 cpu available right now is a intel branded mainboard: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dh67bl/sb/CS-031955.htm?wapkw=(DH67BL) I never had an intel branded mainboard...
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    Software who read DDR2 voltages?

    I have a Asus motherboard which mount 785g amd chipset. In the bios I was tweaking the voltages of cpu chipset and ram. On the ram side (ddr2 800mhz) I'm allowed to set voltages between 1.5v to 2.4v. I tried to undervolt the ddr2 modules until I reached the bottom to 1.5v with the system...
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    Best monitor for text based work

    A user on this forum wrote 4 principle to follow choosing a monitor for text reading: "1) Brightness: Most big screens have over bright back lights. When they do have powerful back lights, turning them down often still results in poor color rendition and the contrast looks hideous if you are...
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    Best monitor for text based work

    As per title I'm looking for the best monitor for text based work. As I spend some day up to 12-14 hours on the pc, eyestrain is a problem sometimes. I read between on last 2 days thousand of review on monitor, but the more I read the more I'm confused. I read a thread (from last year) on this...
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    How to undervolt an Atom Zxxx ?

    I just got a netbook Acer 751h which is mounting an atom z520 cpu and an Intel gma 500 chipset. Are there utilities to undervolt them in some way? I know it won't change much, but as I have a 3-cell battery the more I get the best.
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    Using the same software installation from 2 Xp different installation

    I was thinking there was a specific section of the registry where there stored all the changes made by software installation, if so I could just replace that part. What if I entirely (or almost entirely if there is something that should not be changed ) replace the registry of the native...
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    Using the same software installation from 2 Xp different installation

    Hi guys I want ask if can do this (and eventually how..): I have a pc with a dualboot operanting system: 1)on partition C, I have installed Xp (with no application ) 2)on partition D I have installed the application that I use with XP 3)On partition E I have installed Ubuntu. Now within...
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    8800GS overclock,temperature & fan control

    Hi guys, I just received the Gainward Bliss 8800gs that I bought. The problem is I want to overclock the card but with the utility givem by Gainward "ExpertTool " i'm very limited with the overclocking. And it's even worse the situation ad I have no idea how to check the temperatures,as I...
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    How much space taken by temp files?

    Well the fact is that I have 8GB of ram on my pc, and pagefile management is not efficient, at least not with XP (but I saw complain even from Vista users ).Many user stated that even with a lot of ram (2gb ) e few process running they noticed that files were still paged . On the other hand I...
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    How much space taken by temp files?

    yas I get it now..to be honest I didn't think aboutthis case, but know that you are telling me..it seems mine was defintely not a good idea.
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    How much space taken by temp files?

    Thanks for the reply, I knew that for the pagefile I can set my maximum,my problem is which size should I give to these folder: 2)%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp 3)%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp 4)C:\Windows\Temp\
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    How much space taken by temp files?

    Hi guys, I'm going to create a RamDisk on my system. On the RamDisk I will move the pagefile.sys file, and the temp folder of windows. Specifically I will move the following folders: 1)Internet Temporary files 2)%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp 3)%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp...
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    Best software to manage in the best way 8GB of ram

    I can't use Vista as some application I use is not compatibile with Vista,so I'm looking an application that could improve the ram management.
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    Best software to manage in the best way 8GB of ram

    Hi, I have now a pc with 8GB of ram an Windows XP Pro X64 as OS. I'm looking for a sowfware that would manage so much RAM in the best way in order to minimize the access and usage of the hard drive, and to keep the most part of games in ram in order to reduce the load time, a software that...
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    HDMI vs DVI

    Hi I've got a VGA (Palit 3850 256mb ) that have native HDMI and DVI connector,as my monitor 24" (resolution 1920x1200 ),I was wondering if it is better to use the HDMI or DVI connector.I own both the cable so for me the only difference is the quality.Which connection offer the better quality?
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    Video Card with insufficient RAM

    I was replying to Madgun who stated "A GPU caches space on main memory, if there's insufficient vram". As he talked about the fact that GPU caches space on main memory when the vram is insufficient, I asked if it is possible to check the amount of this memory cached by the GPU. So the...
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    Video Card with insufficient RAM

    is it possible detect in some way the amount of the main system memory used by the vga with task manager? Under which name this process is eventually name on the task manager?
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    Video Card with insufficient RAM

    Hi I was wondering what really happen when the ram on the video card (vram ) is insufficient. Does the VGA make use of swap file? If yes, the swap file is on the RAM of the system,or on the hard disk (maybe the same swap file system used by the operating system ?) ?
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    hi guys, did anyone was able to make use of more than 3,2GB of Ram with vista with this mobo? I have installed 4gb of Ram on my pc, and with Vista 32 bit it will only recognize 3,2gb. I tried vista 64-bit and with that OS installed all the 4gb of memory is recognized and used. The problem is...
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Hi guys ,I don't know if anyone posted it, but maybe I found a solution to the FSB ratio problem. I found a guide in polish that state how to modify the natuve fsb of cpu intel having a low fsb. Say for example you have a cpu pentium e2160 running at 1800mhz (200x9), with this mod you can...
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Does anyone know if theres an option to disable the TPM? On my previous Asus p5b-deluxe I had this option but on this motherboard I can't find it.
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Hi guys I would like to ask you something pressing when on bios alt+f1 it appears a new entry "advanced chipset features",which inside has 2 entry,they are named : 1)DVMT mode 2)DVMT/fixed memory size. Does anyone knows what these entries are for? Did anyone tried to Deovervoltage FSB...
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Thanks for teh suggestion, afterm many trials I found that the problem was 1 module of memory.
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    I just assembled my new pc, and when I switch on the bios start normally but then i can't enter in the bios configuration, if I put a cd with an operating system to install it nothing change. Did anyone had the same problem? My configuration is: Cpu core duo e2160 ram 4x1gb corsair xms 5400 cl4...
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Hi , I bought this motherboard,and I assembled the pc toady.The problem is that when switch on the pc, the fans start but not video signal reach the monitor. There are also strange things that happened: The fan of the power supply (a cheap brand Advance 460w) that was supposed to be...
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