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The problem started with my X-Fi with the release of Windows Vista. I had my Fatality long before Vista or my nVidia Chipset. I'm just curios Atech, how long have you had your X-Fi. I ask because I watched the X-Fi go from King of the road, second to none, to a sound card that now sits on a...

I was just curious Casper312, where are you shopping at. I shop at Newegg and I only see a $17.00 difference. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116074&Tpk=e5300 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072 But I must admit, for that small of a...

The OC difference would probably be whatever the difference is in MHz between the two CPUs.

A man you already said all this, why do think I said lets drop it. None of this is helping the Op, let it go. And sorry, I can't see any smiley faces, my Ad-Blocker blocks them.

About 6 mo ago I had ditch my Creative X-Fi Fatality for an ASUS Xonar because of one problem or another after switching to Vista, but I have not given up on my X-Fi, that's why I'm asking for help. I was hoping someone could give me some feedback on the new drivers which came out in Dec. 2008...

Anytime.

"Encrypted" People use it for security, especially the Gov. If the entire HDD is encrypted, the first thing you would see is a screen prompting you for a password. You would see the prompt before you would see your post screen. You can also encrypt a partition w/o encrypting the HDD. Short...

My CoD5 would not work at first either, kept getting an error message. My system audio was 192KHz. I dropped it to 48KHz, the game started right up and I haven't had a problem since.

If the HDD is not encrypted, you shouldn't have any problems.

That is correct, you no longer have duel channel. Did you try bumping your voltage up (memory)?

Dude, if $119.00 is not based on budget, I don't know what is. Now, I want you to step back from the keyboard for a second and ask yourself a question. What are we fussing about? I bet your answer is probably; nothing. You made your point, I made mine, both points are on record here so lets...

I get your point, but you see the ole thing in regard to most chips...why buy the E8600 when you can buy the E8500 and save this....why buy the E8500 when you can buy the E8400 and save that. I was just giving the the guy some choices

Sorry about that fuxxy, try one of these, the 1st is $19.00 over, but close: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115132 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116074

E8400: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 E8500: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036 E8600: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115054&Tpk=E8600

Thanks for the heads up. I bought my E8500, a week later the E8600 is out.....I give up, can't beat these people.

Seem like the bulge is never be big enough, This computer stuff is like a pit with no bottom.

I had to back track a little and I think its been closer to 2 years since I tried setting up RAID5 because at the time I was using the integrated Promise RAID Controller on my P4P800-E Deluxe which has been retired, or given to my son I should say. I'm now using the integrated nVidia...

What your saying is true in regard to RAID5. I read about it and even tried to set it up about a year ago. Somewhere along the line I got confused with the explanation that was was given and gave up. I'll look into it some more, thank you Old Hippie.

Thank you Antimatter. Ya, I have no problems with the Xonar at all. I'm no sound card expert but from what I understand when Microsoft dropped the hardware acceleration in Vista it caused problems for the X-Fi. All ASUS did was capitalize on technology thats been around for years, C-Media...

Been here 7 yrs? If you been around a forum that is as well informed as this one for that long, then I know I have my answer. I dug into pretty deep myself last night so I understand your big tank explanation a little better. A really good RAID Card can cost $400.00-$800.00. That has to mean...

Strange....I wonder if you have a corrupt, pdf related Firefox extension. I remove all (2) adobe startup items and don't allow update's.

WolfpupNX, I'm still up. I might have put you through a lot of grief for nothing. It just hit me what you are talking about. I use Adobe Professional Extended. When I install Adobe, the first or second PDF, I get an error message saying something about 2D or something can't be displayed...

Did you see my reference in regard to the nVidia Chipset? And believe me, I don't work for ASUS. Antimatter, all I'm saying is this, I tried everything I could to get it to function properly in Vista to no avail. I would love to take it back out the box and put it in my second rig because I...

Thanks Danny Bui for such a fast reply. RAID0. Would I be wasting my money?

I have been using onboard RAID for a few years now, Intel, Promise, and currently nVidia MediaShield. I need some advise, would a good RAID card be much better than the integrated RAID controller?

Try this: http://www.corsair.com/configurator/product_results.aspx?id=9662#other_modules

If you are certain it is not a fan, try this. Remove VGA(s), Sound Card, all PCI related hardware. Now discharge the MB and re-install each component one at a time, see if the sound is still there.

It sound to me like the blade is moving up and down the shaft. I don't have a laptop, I'm not even sure it has a shaft. But if the sound goes away when you turn the lap upside down, its because the blade has moved off of whatever it is hitting when is should in fact be stationary.

Without the Side door shouldn't be a problem, but dust will like the other guy said. Just don't try what I did a few years ago. My 120mm on my side died and at the time I didn't have an extra. I took the dead fan out and put the door back on w/o a fan. Right away it overheated.

You sure can. These days you have many different options. You can put two drive on a stripe and add as many HDD's non-RAID as your MB can support. You can even mix ATA/SATA but I wouldn't recommend it, but that's just me.

Ya, like I said it can have it's cons as well. I prefer the RAID0 (stripe). If I lose a HDD, everything is gone, wiped out. I don't have an external HDD so what I do is keep my personal data Software, music, etc; backed up to my second computer. My "D" drive on both of the computers are...

I just checked out your MB, nVidia Chipset, nVidia MediaShield. It would be easy to set up a RAID stripe but you would need two identical SATA HDD's. A RAID configuration is faster than a single HDD or two HDD's w/o RAID, but can have it's cons as well. Put it this way and I'm only speaking...

I was just curious when I seen one HDD. Everyone has their own preference and I respect that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

The Antec 1200 is a nice cage no doubt about that so I'm not going to do any comparison, I'll let you draw your own conclusion. Case Thermaltake ArmorPlus(Armor+) VH6000BWS $204.00@ Newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133056

Good point, alot of people run the E8400 for this very reason.

Dozoy, I take it you don't like RAID. Would that be safe to say?

If you have enough sense to go with a 2x2Gb mem configuration and not a 4x1, I would say you probably know what you're doing. Also, the E8500 is a sweet chip I have one, but why not get the E8600? If $$$ is a concern, then I fully understand.

I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to so I'll just say this, I have had no issues whatsoever.

X-Fi and Vista just don't mix. At least you have a Intel Chipset, nothing but the problems with the nVidia Chipset/X-Fi. My X-Fi now resides in the closet now. I bought my Fatality when the X-Fi was first released, there were only 3 versions of the card then. Then came Vista and all of the...