Recent content by dave4900

Hi All, I have recently upgraded my system, I was just wondering what would be my best option to upgrade next, its been quite a while my old system was built about 7 years ago. Old System Pentium 4 3.4ghz socket 478 Abit IC7 Max 3 Mobo 2gb DDR Gainward 7800GS Video card (8x AGP) 74gb Raptor...

Thanks again i'll take a look at that, I have looked myself and there are so many different cards I appreciate the advice. It is however well documented that Nvidia drivers are way ahead of the ATI for cards for Linux that much I know. Yes I am playing Wow straight from Ubuntu via latest...

Thanks for the advice, the board and processor look nice the only factor would be that ATI cards are not very well supported in Ubuntu/ linux based OS'S and there would have to be a major reason for me to go back to a windows based OS which at the moment I can't see any reason to at all. So...

Hi, I am looking for advice on what I should do as I have not been looking at hardware for a good 4 years. My current specs are : 3.4 Intel Prescott Abit IC7 Max Motherboard 1Gb Crucial Ballistx DDR Nvidia FX5700 Video card PSU -Hyper Type R 580w 74gb Raptor drive (operating system) +...

Hi, I bought a secondhand motherboard which has a passive cooler installed on the north bridge, it seems to be running really hot (after its been running several hours its almost too hot to touch) It is stuck on with some sort of compound, is there anyway to remove it(would prefer this) or...

Thanks very much, just the answer I was looking for, I was 99% sure that was the case, just wanted some clarification. Thanks again.

Ok, its a good 3 years since I have had to replace a power supply and they seem to have changed a lot, all I want to know, is this power supply compatible with a Abit IC7 Max 3 motherboard. The motherboard is a 20 pin atx + 4pin P4 connection The psu is this one: Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R...

Ok, I have tested my power supply and it is in fact dead, there is a small scorch mark on the motherboard (not sure what you call them) but its a small black square with 2 metal tails on, this is just above the AGP slot, I am guessing the board shorted here, causing the power supply to blow up...

OK I presume this is related as I have no idea why it happened. It has been running fine for 3 -4 days, today I switched it on there was a loud pop, and flash (saw the flash as I still have the side of the case off) and it tripped my fuse box. It looks like part of my motherboard has blown. Will...

Firstly thanks for all the prompt replies. It looks like I have had a lucky escape, the card and pc have now had almost 14 hours drying time, I powered it up on my lunch time to test it again ( I wouldn't be to upset if my card was broken anyway its old !) It seems there must have been a very...

Hi, My water cooling system recently leaked a small amount of water from the cpu block which dripped down on to my Nvidia FX5200 graphics card ( I discovered this afterwards, it was while my computer was on the graphics went blurry and flashing so I switched it off immediatley) I have sorted...

Hi, just a quick question, whats the difference between these two coolers ? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Thermalright_120.html ThermalRight SI-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-023-TR) ThermalRight XP-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-017-TR)

No. I didn't quite follow the instructions for the bios update. The last step was to clear the cmos which i didn't do immediately, did that the next day. I don't know if it was the bios update or not. Maybe if i had just cleared the cmos before it may have worked. Clearing the cmos has nothing...

Ok thanks for your help ( the guys that actually tried to help) I have finally sorted it out by clearing my cmos. I have no idea why this fixed it but it has and its running great now. Ned I think you need to actually get a life, and remember what these forums are for.... to help people!!. I...

I flashed my bios to the latest version but it has made no difference.