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Firstly, I know this is a bit unusual. But I do game regularly and yes, my PC is 10 years old now. The only exceptions are the video card which is much more recent as well as a SSD. My monitor is also relatively new and is QHD (which is probably a bit much for my system at 2560x1440). But this...

Went to the store and looked at the various wireless adapters they had. Was surprised to find a large amount of USB devices, some with, and some without antennas. They ranged from €15 to €55. The cheaper ones had no antenna. The PCI cards had between 1 & 3 antennas, and cost around €30...

After reading a few threads here, I was surprised to find out that it appears an HDTV is quite capable of running PC games at up to 1920x1080, as long as it's a 1080p TV. I did read the thread asking what's the best 30'' monitor to get, and saw some comparisons there between TVs and monitors...

I know this forum is likely intended more for laptops and the likes, but it's the closest one to covering the topic of this post... I'm moving to Europe (from the States), and I'm trying to figure out what's the best thing to do with my PC. I know they use 220-240v there, and my power supply...

So my brother (I know...) had downloaded via a torrent MW2 to see if he liked it. We both like it and decided to buy it for $60 (on Steam), so we downloaded it via Steam, uninstalled the illegal copy, and then tried to run Steam's version. It fires up the splash screen, but then always just...

1- Since these cards are in the same "family", is it ok to just pop the new one in and install the latest drivers from AMD's website? If not, do I have to find that driver cleaner program and try that? 2- Is there a way to have an automatic, logical, smart fan speed setting? (i.e. it...

I've been trying to figure out how to accomplish this, as I have an old DOS machine that has a dying HDD (sounds similar to a really, really bad case fan). From XP I can't format the new HDD to fat12. From the DOS machine, it will see the new HDD in BIOS, but then won't see it in DOS (just...

I really haven't thought much about this, and habitually always leave my PC on, 24 hours a day. Has anyone figured out more or less how much it actually costs, for a basic, and more advanced PCs? Mine is pretty simple, has a 650w PSU, a Q6600@ 3.0Ghz, a simple HDD and a HD4850 with a 24"...

Trying to confirm my "Antec True Power Trio TP3-650 650W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply with Three 12V Rails - Retail" will support a "EVGA 896-P3-1264-AR GeForce GTX 260 SSC Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card -...

And although it was a mere $159 for the Sapphire HD 4850, I absolutely love it. I came from a long line of Nvidia cards, some that cost over $400, and unfortunately my most recent one was a 7900GT. I never ran such high in game settings, and certainly no AA. This Sapphire card just makes...

Although I've read a number of threads on OC'ing, I'm obviously rather new at it. I just started by bumping the FSB to 333 on my Asus P5Q-PRO with a Q6600. I left all of the voltages to [Auto]. Is that just dumb/dangerous or is it fine for anyone who doesn't have hours to read every thread...

It looks like there are some DFI ones for around 180, of which I know nothing. That's not too bad of a price imo. For you guys excited about the new ATi cards and want to be able to run them CF'd without much loss, what did you get and how do you like it? (Or what are you considering, and...

Do all x38 and x48 boards support unhampered Crossfire? I cringe at the $200+ cost of the most popular x48 x16/x16 Crossfire boards. I'm not going to go overboard overclocking, but I don't want to get a board that will come back to bite me later if I want to Xfire.

Why in the world is my Harddrive running for so long and so frequently, for no apparent reason. This doesn't necessarily occur right after I open or close some resource hog software. It'll just happen for no apparent reason, even if all I have open is a website such as this one. It also...

I just bought a used 7900 GS off a friend. I'm trying to find out what the operating temp ranges are for this card before I dare overclock it. Adding to the complication is that right now I don't have enough 4 pin power connectors from the power supply to power all the case fans. So I have a...

Today my PC decided to have a major problem. (it's fairly old... Athlon 64 3000+, MSI K8T Neo, 2GB DDR400, BFG 6800 GT OC, WD raptor). Nothing is overclocked, besides the factory OC'd video card. I was playing a game, when suddenly series of pretty pixels appeared in nice lines across the...

Or at least, why can't I seem to find it... I cannot believe a forum of this nature would lack the essential search function.........

I recently aquired a WD Raptor, and was eligible for a $20 rebate on it. However, when I went to retrieve the serial # for it, I saw several numbers that I thought could be the serial number. So I wrote them all down on the rebate form. Since then I received a letter back stating that my...

I have an A64 3000 with a BFG 6800GT OC and 1 Ghz of Kingston HyperX 3200 on a MSI K8N Neo Platinum and a WD Raptor. It's all new stuff on a new install of windows XP. Running Doom 3, or other fps games, even at very reasonable, if not "low" resolutions such as 1024x768, I'll get very...

In my new venture into the overclocking world, I had simply used Core Center to increase my "FSB" from the default 201 to 210. I noticed that it'd reset to 201 the next time I rebooted, even if I had saved it. I then tried the auto feature, and it kept going higher and higher, so I stopped it at...

I have a brand new A64 3000 and a MSI K8N Neo Platinum. I setup the "Core Center" program and when I went to see the temp of the CPU, it listed 66' C... I opened the case and touched the CPU heat sink. It's not even remotely hot, it's barely warm. After rebooting several times installing...