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So, after 7-8 years, im finally ditching LGA1155, following picking up a few decent deals on Black Friday and a bit of cash burning a hole in my pocket (also my 8 year old mobo is starting to be a bit funny with my ssd's, and cold booting once in a while). Had a i5 2500k all the way through from...

Hi All Ive had a R290 sitting about for a good while that I hadnt got round to installing, due to the fact it didnt fit in my old Lian Li case. Just moved to a Fractal R5 case and as a result now have room for it, just installed and updated drivers etc. Its crashing over and over when...

Hi All As the title suggests, im in the process of upgrading my work machine from a small form factor dell optiplex 380 to one of the new small factor T1700 precision workstations. At the moment, have a low profile AMD 7750 1gb card in this machine that I could move across to the new box...

Hi All At the centre of my network I have a HP 2900-24g (24gig ports + 2x stacking 10gbe ports) switch. A few weeks ago this switch failed and had to be replaced under support (and is now back in place again working fine). Eventually, I have managed to fix the previously failed switch and...

Hi For Sale is my barely used Xbox 360 Pro - 20GB HDMI console. I purchased this for GTA4 alone, then within a few months ended up landing myself a 3.55 PS3 so this got left on the shelf, (that and the fact my other half doesnt really let me spend the time on games..) This sale contains: -...

Hi All Just put a new ocz vertex 2e 120gb ssd in my machine, straight swap out for my old 6400 aaks hdd. I cloned the old drive moved on to the ssd, realigned, setup windows 7 etc, and all working fine. The whole time i was using default bios settings, as soon as i begin to oc again (i...

Hi All ive just bought myself an amd 6850 to upgrade my old 4850, and a new ssd to move my OS on to. Currently, i have 3x hdd's (3 500gb WD 7200), one as the os drive, and the other two as a raid1 mirror for storing music, data etc. I intend to switch out the single hdd, and leave the...

Hi Folks Just having a bit of a problem finding some info - i originally had 4 disks in raid10 - dual booting Xp and 7 (xp installed first)... just decided to take out a couple of the disk and replace with a faster single disk. In the process i imaged my old XP install - removed all the...

Hi All I have been tasked with fully encrypting hard disks on 5 of my companies laptops - the way i was going to do with was buy and install 5x seagate fde 3 5400 disks (i bought one to test so far). So far i have Cloned the old OS on to the disk, installed the disk in place of the old one...

Hi All i have managed to get a script working that installs a font on to a windows users PC - which is great, except the problem being that i intend to have this run as a startup script from group policy, and if you run the script more than once - it complains that: "the font is already...

Hi Folks Just finished getting rid of my knackered evga680i - replaced with a asus P5Q-E and swapped out my ocz ram for 2x 2gb Corsair 8500 C5 Just started to push this q6600, 1.3125 Vid (my 680i gave me problems so never oc'd it) - and benching at 3.4 ghz at the mo... my question is this, i...

Morning All My EVGA 680i Sli is giving me supreme problems.. it goes a little like this: PC Built - runs sweet as a nut for over a year PC Started blue screening while using my overclocked C2D 6420 @ 3.3 ghz, down clocked to stock speed - still giving me problems. Run a few tests...

Hi All Got a lil issue im hoping someone might know how to fix.... I just got a vostro 400 for an office PC, and had it specced up so it had a decent gfx card and a G0 Q6600 in it.... So i took the Q6600 out of this Vostro 400, and put it in to my main rig (see sig) where it would be of...

Hi All We have just bought a new Dell 2950, quad core 2.8 ghz, 8 gb ram server, with 6x 300gb 15k sas drives in it. I have raid 10'd these drives in to one large volume 830 gb roughly usable, with 64k strip size. I intend to have 3 partitions on the volume, one O/S C: partition (say...

Hi All I have been helping a friend of mine get his PS3 online and having a nightmare. He just bought a belkin 54g modem/router, which is working fine for his PC in his house, i guided him through the setup of this (have one myself) and all works fine. I have had him setup the wireless...

Hi All i took out my 7800gt last week - and replaced it with a 8800gt - playing quake3 was totally fine on my 7800gt (and my 6800 before it, and the 9700 b4 that etc...), since installing the new card im getting random skips, pauses in game and its especially bad when running on pb servers...

Hi all My AC Accelero S1 should be here tomorrow and I have a quick query before I try to install it. My Palit 8800gt has custom cooling on it, including the power regulators - I was hoping that the S1 would have enough clearance for me to leave this on (as the rev1 doesnt come with...

Hi All just did a reinstall of my XP install, and I have 2 drives one of which has 2x partitions on... Since the reinstall - xp has swapped what was my d and e drives over and wont let me change them back as it thinks the E: is the system drive (dispite the fact windows is on C:)...

Hi all since i got my old a64 3000- LBBLE 0521 BPFW up to 2.7 ghz (see sig), ive kinda been out the loop, ive just got my hands on a 3200+ NBBWE 0603 GPDW and im wondering if anyone knows anything about how good these new steppings are these days (i think these are E6...

Hi A quick question, does anyone know if its possible to load 2 different profiles in windows XP with 2 different sets of services? Reason being i have a media centre, and running emulators etc on it when all services are running makes it stutter slightly, i disabled a load of services...

hi all a quick question relating to a nvidia 6200... im looking for one to put in my media pc - preferably one that has at least the possibility of unlocking the extra pipelines... from what ive read, i need a 128bit memory'd card, and have the possibility of getting one of these...

Hi All just looking for some recommendations really Im after buying a USB 54g wireless card, that has an option to mount an external antenna on it.. a pcmcia card might do the job if anyone knows any really cheap ones but usb is much more useful for me.. essentially its to connect to my...

i have a very quick question... i intent to chuck a zs in to my machine but i need to use the midi/joypad bracket.. the soundcard will go at the bottom of my case, and the 2 slots above it are taken my my gfx card and gfx card cooler.. will the midi bracket reach to the spare slot above...

hi folks, having a really tough time, what im trying to do is essentially disable the dpad on my gamepad thats plugged in to my soundcards midi port, the way ive gone about it is to create a custom joypad called for example "mynewgamepad". i can then search the registry for this gamepad...

Hi folks I have recently picked up a job lot of 8 monitors.. all 22", reason i got them is to replace my busted dell P1100 21" that kinda went bad.. now i have the following: 4x iiyama vision master pro 510's 2x mitsubishi diamondpro 200 2x mitsubishi diamondpro 220 my question is...

Hi i just need a couple of opinions on what im prepairing to buy this week, ive been overclocking athlon XP's for ages but havent got in to A64's yet and im not 100% sure i will get the results im after.... buying: A64 3000 OEM (Venice) XP90-C or XP-120 plus panaflo DFI LANPARTY UT nF4...

Hi all... Just got my new inno3d 6800NU, pipelines locked down due to artifacts, but vertex unit unlocked... Ive replaced the standard cooler with a nv silencer 5 (with articsilver3 on the core, thermal pads that came with it on the memory) and temperatures are roughly idling at 40 deg C...

Hi all, just upgraded from a vanilla 9700 to a 6800nu tried to unlock the extra pipelines with riva tuner but was a no go, however the extra vertex unit has been enabled and working fine... having looked at some other 3dmark scores.. not from a *wow isnt my score great* point of view but...

hi all, not sure if this is in the right section but still.... i have a 160gb sata drive partitioned in to 3 sections, having had windows 2000 on there for ages i went to put xp on there this morning (on the 40gb c partition), the d partition contained all my backup data, files, videos the...

I know a few people have mentioned to me that 1T/2T timings on barton setups does not have that big an impact but running my new UTT sticks on my nf7-s i seem to have the option of: 220fsb 2-2-2-11 1T vs 240fsb 2-2-2-11 2T now bearing in mind my pc is generally just used for gaming, do you...

hi folks, ive been speaking to a few peeps around here bout some memory choices (thx barron/eclipse) and i think ive found the root of my problem. the story is outlined here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=900511 but if you cant be arsed with reading that essentially.. i just...

Ok, the reason im putting this thread up is for 2 reasons, one to record whats going on with my system as i find / fix problems, and two so anyone with any experience who fancies contributing can chip in anything they like... (thx :) ) Basics Upgraded from: xp1700 (JIUHB) which did 200*12...

Hi folks, need an opinion for a potential upgrade.... i currently have 2x 256mb twinmos 3200 with Winbond (as it was sold) which im running at 200 @ 2,2,2,5 which at the time i was fairly pleased with, i think knocking up the timings lets me up to about 216 voltage didnt seem to help that...

hi, im kinda a .bat file noob and need alittle help, im scripting MBSA (microsoft baseline security analyzer) to run at work, and if i run the command line directly from a cmd prompt window, all is fine.. however the minute i put it in a .bat file im given errors. this is whats in the .bat...

ello heres the problem, just got broadband (finally) in my new place after years of having it elsewhere and have decided to share it with my housem8 over a wireless (802.11b) ad-hoc network.. now with previous experiences with wireless, using AP's ive been able to lock the network down...

right, for the last 2 years plus, ive been using windows2k.. just got used to it and couldnt face the change. well just got me new hdd in preperation for doom3 etc, and am finally considering a change ;) my question is this, i know winXP used to have the whole odd acceleration thing going...

ight, untill now i have been scrimping and saving on harddrives and its about time i spent some money i suppose.. currently have 3x 40gb 2mb caches drives, one of which died last night (guess the manufacturer???) so im looking at getting either a 120/160 gb 8mb cache new drive.. now the...