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    Choosing a monitor, NEC/Dell.

    Oh, I did a search, but the odd 3 in the forum title was my miss, I used a regular 3. Yes, I know they're quite different. But as they're both on sale they're both offering quite good Value for the money compared to other monitors in the pricerange. Hence the choice of theese 2 monitors. I've...
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    Choosing a monitor, NEC/Dell.

    I'm thinking about getting a new monitor since my current one is a temporary screen which is in no way suited for what I do, or would like to have. I live in sweden and right now, 2 monitors are on sale. The Dell 2209WA eIPS 22" which goes for roughly 218 €, and the NEC Multisync 24WMGX3...
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    Possible Airflow Problems with 4870, VX450w and XQPack2

    Happy to be of help, hope it works out for you! As long as the temps are kept in check and the PSU is not exhausting overly heated air, all is fine.
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    Cooler Master Elite 340 Review...kind of..PICS!!!

    My front ports on my case works just fine with my Xonar DX anyhows, not tried the onboard yet.
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    New mATX Build

    Just like the other people said, get a good 320GB platter drive like the WD Blue, it will give you a pleasant boost in gaming performance. It should lower loadingtimes and filter out some ocasional loading-stuttering. Regarding the case... I like the NSK3400 for high performance parts. Mainly...
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    mATX build suggestions?

    The WD green-drive is almost dead silent while the Barracuda sounds like a freighttrain and vibrates as much as one too. And it generates more heat as well... If you want a good combo of speed and noise while keeping vibrations from the disk in check, go for a 640GB WD Blue.
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    Core i7 Boards

    We will see a variety of boards soon after the official launchdate of the processor. Overclocking theese new processors will be fine and pretty good with the first wave of boards it seems. I for one, is going to wait for the second generation of the processor. Motherboards are way to expensive...
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    Possible Airflow Problems with 4870, VX450w and XQPack2

    Let us get this straight, say for instance that the card is drawing almost all of it's power from the SINGLE 12V rail it has. now say that the card is pulling a hefty 200W (that's pretty overkill) load of the 12V rail. Now basic math tells us that this 200W load on the 12V rail measures up to...
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    Possible Airflow Problems with 4870, VX450w and XQPack2

    Electronics can give off odd smells when they're running very hot. The PSU is 100% Adequate for his setup so the explaination is most likely that it's running too hot and is causing the smell due to high heat. Mind you the Corsair VX450 have Capacitors rated at 105*C and a fully working...
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    Possible Airflow Problems with 4870, VX450w and XQPack2

    The VX 450 is fine for your setup, Corsair even recommends the VX450 for 4870 setups with Dualcores. The issue you might have is that since you're using a 4870 with the non 'dustblower' design that normally leads alot of heat out of the case.. now your PSU is sucking up that heated air and...
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    Corsair 650tx + Apevia Qpack 2 ?

    It fits, plus the PSU rests on some supports so it should be fine. Just be wary of the that PSU may get in the way of a too deep CD/DVD-drive.
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    I got my board refunded today, going to replace it with something else, like the older P5E-VM or Gigabyte G33M-DS2R.
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Tried out a friends board, damn I were impressed with it. I were able to reach 570Mhz FSB and 1140mhz om my Kingston DDR2's, at which point my memorysticks held me back.
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    Usually boards overclocks worse with integrated than with dedicated, so you need to try another graphicscard. Preferably Newer ATi to confirm.
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    Hello dear HardOCP-forumers... I'm coming with an update from a mailing conversation with some nice guys over at Anandtech! They're saying that certain combos on the P5Q-EM leads to bad FSB overclocks, for example with a 260GTX they did hardly breach 400, but with ATi's 4670 they managed to get...
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    No it was achieved with the P5Q-EM mATX with 402 bios, i couln't even get past 415 stable on the newer 5-series bios, let alone the 402.
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    Be happy yours did 432Mhz FSB, mine was a mess over 410... But you're right, I managed to get it to post at 430, but it would fail to post more than it succeded. And that was using discrete graphics. Something odd is going on about their G45-board it seems. I heard anandtech got theirs to...
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    Asus P5Q-EM. Whats the overall take on it?

    All bios version from the stock one to the latest 5xx version, I had a 1.03G version of the board if i remember correctly. Check Asus list of ram they recommend, I used D9 based HyperX from kingston that worked like a charm. I've had plenty! Onboard whacked out before 1600mhz FSB with...
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    I really hope I got a bad ex, but with latest bios my board didn't even do 420 stable no matter what settings I set with dedicated graphics. Really a shame. Hope other boards does better than mine.
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    Full upgrade to mATX system. Incite and suggestions needed.

    Yeah, same for me.. Only it froze upon driver installation, 8800GT and 8800GTS is so far only cards I've tried except the 8800GS mentioned later on in this post. But reports from other users stretches out to 9800GT and 9600GT as well. Only card I've confirmed works is 8800GS from Evga. Seems...
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    Full upgrade to mATX system. Incite and suggestions needed.

    Not by a long shot by any means in any way except price/performance ratio. I really can't agree with that since it has serious compatibility issues with several nvidia cards at the moment it seems, it wouldn't accept my 8800GT or 8800GTS, this has been brought up on other forums as well...
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    Full upgrade to mATX system. Incite and suggestions needed.

    I'd have to disagree with that, quite a bit. Most decent dedicated soundcards today are better than integrated solutions by quite a bit, but sure the integrated cards have evolved last few years. I'd take an X-fi, Xonar, Auzentech or any the like over integrated HD Audio any day, it's not just...
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    ASUS P5Q-EM

    Yes one would hope, but I just sent my motherboard back to where i bought it after half a ton of issues. Might just have gotten a bad board but I don't know. First of all there is lingering issues all over the place with Nvidia cards, didn't get 8800GT or 8800GTS to work, but my girlfriends...
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