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Hello, For the past 12 hours or so, i've been having some major CPU related (i think?:confused: ) issues my computer. Simple everyday tasks like clicking a link in Firefox are now using 50% cpu usage. UnRARing a file now uses 100% CPU usage, when it would used to only take 20% (and it takes...

Hi, Have a few quick questions about some of the fans it my system. 1) I have a generic 80mm case fan (SUPERRED CHA8012AS) that uses 0.09A @ 12V. Anyone have a rough estimate of how much air it pushes? I'm thinking of replacing them with 80mm Panaflo "low" speed fans, will it make much...

Hey guys, I'm going to be getting a new keyboard soon, and it's down to the Internet Navigator keyboard and the Elite. What differences are there between the two? The only I can tell is color, and a slightly different volume control. Nothing worth the $45 vs $15 (CDN) price tag. Am I missing...

Greetings... A few hours ago I installed partition magic and decided I was going to delete my old Win 98 (C:, it was also the "active" partition) partition that I never used, to free up some space for my XP partition (D:). So I went into parition magic, told it to delete C:, and set D to...

Recently, I have been trying to decide if I should get a pair of Sennheiser HD 497s or Sennheiser PC150s. I'm leaning towards the HD 497s. These will be primarily for gaming, BTW. So, my question is if I get the HD 497s will a desk mic work? I'm coming from audio 90s, so I dont want to sound...

Hey guys, I am currently looking to buy a pair of Sennheiser HD497 or Sennheiser PC150's. The problem: I live in Canada (:(). So far, I have only found one place to buy them: HD497 PC150 They are however considerably more expensive than what you Americans pay. So, my question is, does...

Well this is my rig: [multi locked] Athlon XP 2500+ @ 11x194 @ 1.725 Vcore Abit NF7-S Rev 2. 1x512MB OCZ "performance series" (2-3-3-11) Sapphire 9800 Pro (419/363) And if HD matters: WD 80GB Special Edition I'm interested in playing HL2 with pretty high ingame settings at 1024x768 with...

http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njc1 Havent read it yet... but i'm reading it now...

Well, look what I found on newegg when I searched "EVGA 6800" Well, it's 256MB GDDR3 6800 card, and i'm guessing it's something along the lines of evga's version of the asus 256mb 6800 aka 6800gt with 4 pipes cut. The REALLY strange thing is that it's got a 6800 ultra HSF on it. Also, it...

Okay guys, i'm not sure if this is the right section, or right forum for that matter, to post this in, but bear with me. I have a friend who is looking for a a good color (duh, lol) inkjet printer for schoolwork wtc. Exceptional picture printing ability and PPM will not matter that much, I dont...

I have a friend who is buying a new PC and now just needs to decide on the monitor. Several monitors have caught my eye: ViewSonic G90FB ViewSonic P95F+B and NEC/MITSUBISHI DP930SB-BK (This one is over budget but tell me what you think.) Anyway, of those, or any other monitors you can...

I will be purchasing an MX 510 in the next several days and am wondering what a good mousepad would be to go with it. I'm currently using a crap m$ optical mouse blue w/o a mousepad. I really on have the choice between the Ratpadz GS or the fUnc 1030, or a walmart etc mouse. I have also heard...

I can get an OEM Sapphire 9800 pro for $265 CDN, or I can get a Leadtek 6800 NU for $390 CDN. I guess my question is it worth it? I know the 6800 is signifigantly faster, but I'm thinking that my system will bottleneck it and also since I dont get at more than 7x10 I really dont think it will...

Well its time for me to buy a card and i'm positive that the 9800 pros are the best I can do for the cash I have to spend. I have 2 options. a) sapphire 9800 pro OEM for $265CDN or b) MSI RX9800 or whatever they hell they call it for $290CDN. First question is what do the MSI card owners think...

Just a quick question of which PSU you think would be the best of the following group: 350W Fortron PSU (FSP350-60BT) 350W Enermax PSU (Enermax EG365P-VE (FM) 350W ATX PS) 420W CWT PSU (CWT 420W Dual Fan PS w/ auto temp control) or a Thermaltake Silent PurePower - 420W Solution PSU. This...

Well i just built a new computer for a friend, which is as follows: AXP 2400+ 512mb of crucial pc3200 120gig drive and an asus A7V8X-MX SE. Here's the problem: at the cpu boots at 1250Mhz instead of the 2Ghz that it's supposed to. Now, with my NF7-S to fool with clock frequencies I would...

I have a friend with thousands old tapes from the 80's and hes wants to tranfer them to CD. The problem is he has an eMachines with a 600Mhz Celery that is so loaded with bullshit that is a horror to play with (it took forever just clean out spyware etc, totally uneblieveable). So, how does one...

After reading all the LGA 775 reviews, i always was kept wondering why everyone was using DDR2 533 or sometimes even DDR2 667, when the CPU's can't use more bandwidth than DDR2 400 provides, unless it is overlocked, of course. The reviews almost made it seem the standard setup was using RAM...

I'm looking for a good player to play .mov files, quicktime sucks, quicktime alternative is all choppy, and this ace media player thing just freezes. Are there any GOOD .mov players?

Hey guys, sorry if this seems like a n00b question, but why does everyone hate OCZ? I mean, i think they make some pretty good ram. I've heard people say it's about their buisness ethics? what did they do? Was this about their 0% silver thermal paste? Well, thanks in advance.

Okay, this is my delima: I currently have a 2x256 pc 3200 corsair dual channel kit in my NF7-S system. Now, i want to upgrade to 1 gig without throwing out my current RAM. Problem is, according to the NF7-S manual the mobo will take 2 dimms @ ddr400 but with 3 dimms only at @ ddr333? Is this...

Okay guys, I have a 2500+ (non mobile) and to get it to run 2.2 GHz i need 1.8V. I've been running it @ 1.8 for a few months. Wondering if that would lower its lifespan to the 9 months anandtech has estimated. I was hoping for at least 2 years.. i and i might not be able to buy a new proc for...

Hi, i'm running a NF7-S with a 2.2GHz Barton w/ 512 megs of Corsair xms3200 running @ 2-3-3-6. They WILL be prime stable @ 2-2-2-11. I've heard 2-2-2-11 is the optimal timings for the nforce 2 chipsets? Is this true? thanks.

Hi guys/gals, i Have an Asus GF4 Ti4200 128MB 8X and i having weird graphical errors. Its been happening for about six months and i've had the card for 1 year. I've been to lazy to post anything:p It all sort of happened after I OCed it a bit... well i dont really remember correctly but it...

Hi, I upgraded from Win 98 SE about six months ago and i noticed that the screen was very flickery when laying full screen games. I have since read up and apparently it is a flaw within Win XP. I have win xp sp1. I'm using a GF4 ti4200 with the 56.03 drivers. I heard there are fixes for this...

Hi, I got an ABIT NF7-S just before christmas and I have been troubles with the OB audio (soundstorm) ever since. When I play America's Army v2.0.0a, and have the sound setting n "hardware", the soundstorm misses i'd say half of the sounds (ie. I shoot my gun 5 times and i hear the "bang" only...

Hi, I got an ABIT NF7-S just before christmas and I have been troubles with the OB audio (soundstorm) ever since. When I play America's Army v2.0.0a, and have the sound setting n "hardware", the soundstorm misses i'd say half of the sounds (ie. I shoot my gun 5 times and i hear the "bang" only...

Hi On christmas day, i fried my PSU. So today, I bought a new GLC 350 watt PSU for 20 bucks canadian. Now, when i try to boot up my PC, everything starts beeping, and i get "beeeeeeeep" beeeeeeeep" "beeeeeeep" over and over and over again... what does this mean? and yeah, i'm using corsair xms...