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    AMD E-450 Thermal Paste or Pad?

    I have an AMD-E450 and I had to take the heatsink off to remove the mobo from my htpc and noticed the thermal pad has a couple of really tiny holes in it. Should I just take it off and use some thermal paste that I have or replace with another thermal pad? I'm going to have to take off the...
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    Impulse purchased by Gamestop

    Just read about this on a few different sites and am not sure how I feel about it. I use Steam mainly but I do buy a few games on Impulse once in awhile. I despise Gamestop as company though so I don't have much faith in this working out well. What do you guys think about this? Big Download...
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    Changing WHS System Drive

    I built a WHS system last week and I put the system drive on an old 200gb hdd that I had laying around, and I have a 1TB drive in there for storage. I want to replace the old drive and put in a new 1.5tb drive as the system drive and a storage drive. I would prefer not to have to reinstall WHS...
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    Directory is Not Empty

    I'm trying to delete some items off of my dedicated server running Windows 2003 and I keep getting a "directory is not empty error" this error for a few certain sub-directories. I have been looking around the internet for some help with this and I am still uncertain how I should take care of it...
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    Has anyone bought/used the new MvixBOX?

    I've been searching for a good (and not too expensive) NAS setup and I came across this the other day MvixBOX. I was wondering if anyone has had a chance to use it or have heard any good things about it. It looks like it has a lot of good features but I haven't seen a review of it anywhere yet...
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    Anyone know of new verizon phones coming out?

    I'm eligible for a discount on a new phone here in a few days but I can't decide if I should wait a few months until something new comes out or should I just buy one now. My carrier is Verizon and as much as I would love to change it's not possible for me at the moment. Anyone know of any good...
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    Spellforce 2

    Was wondering if anyone has played this game and what your thoughts were on it. It's available on Steam now and I was thinking bout getting it.
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    No SATA drives detected on first boot.

    Lately I've been turning off my PC when I sleep or go to work, and the last few times I've turned it on it doesn't detect my SATA drives on the first attempt, however when I shut it back down and power back up it finds them and boots just fine. Should I worry bout this? Any ideas what might...
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    Red Orchestra

    I just bought this game on Steam...downloading now...wanted something new to try out...anyways, I have 2 guest passes that let people play the full game for 10 days...who wants them? First 2 to reply in thread will get them. Also any opinions on this game? It looks interesting... Edit: Both...
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    Riva Tuner Help

    Ok..having a weird problem with Riva Tuner. I shutdown my computer overnight and now that it's back up Riva Tuner doesn't seem to want to let me make any changes to do with fan control. I'm trying to make low level changes. I had some fan profiles set up and now they're gone. Was working fine...
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    SMP Client

    I'm trying to run the self extracting .exe in order to install the SMP client but I'm getting an error. The error says "The data section of this self-extracting file has been damaged". Any ideas on how to correct this? *Edit* Running Windows Vista 64bit.
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    Q6600 Multiplier problem

    I'm having a problem with the CPU Multiplier with the Q6600. In BIOS it shows up as x9 but when I load windows and load CPU-Z it is showing x6. I'm running the processor on an Abit IP35 Pro. Any ideas on what would cause this? Also, Core Temp will sometimes show the correct FSB with the correct...
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    First Build

    After about three months of waiting to build a new computer, I am finally ordering my parts in a week or two.Here is what I have decided on so far. Please feel free to add any info. My budget is roughly $1500-1800. I mainly want this computer for gaming and I plan to upgrade some aspects of it...
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    Need advice for new pc.

    I am having trouble deciding on some parts for my new PC I am going to build. I was going to go with the Asus Striker II Formula but after reading a lot of bad things about them I am starting to think that might be a bad decision. In addition to that I was going to buy 2 8800 GTS 512mb for SLI...
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