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It has i7-3770k, Gigabyte H61M-DS2 (rev 2.0), Gigabyte GTX780, 8G DDR3 (Stronium STR8G86U0-H9M), 4G DDR3 (STR4G86U1-H9H), StrikeX 800w PSU, HyperX Fury 240G SSD, 2TB green drive, BD-RW, Wireless PCI-e card, Intel CPU cooler. Using passmark I'm seeing about 75% lower than expected performance...

In Australia, as someone there mentioned, I'm told there are 5 main wholesalers with the lowest priced 3 competing for the market. I still love when my local retail store gets a billion of something in for the first time (ie. the product is there at the same price for months and months despite...

are you sure it is installed right? did you do it? has this just started happening or a new system build? thanks for the extra information. are you saying the heatsink assembly would burn your finger up (make sure you shut it down first) if you left it there for 5 secs? (that's how I feel...

BIOS doesn't boot if there is a problem with hardware...recheck everything from install? unplug everything but ram and cpu and see if you can get bios? try swapping components? motherboard manual should have beep codes or light sequences to tell you were bios is stopping and rule out problems...

no paste!!!! lol. You scared the hell out of me there... I found that my 6600 was quite affected by the paste that I used. I bought the sticky white type (which you seem to need to use a lot of, I used the gray gritty stuff before that, even when it was white it was gritty and not tacky) for...

yeah, pagefile on a separate partition idea is an old one, it works good on win98 as I remember. it used to work to have the windows system and pagefile on a smallish partition so it couldn't roam to far, like a separate drive, but now it's not really a problem for me, I just use perfectdisk to...

definitely, I would suggest a bigger powersupply. I got a 430watt for my system (not paying attention to the 8 pin cpu input on my motherboard) and it is a little unstable. Make sure you double check the connectors that come with the powersupply with the graphics card and motherboard (24pin plus...

Sounds good to me nvalhalla. Basically, you have a bunch of definitions and terms to learn NewZeta, google each as you read them I'd suggest. If you are new to building, I wouldn't necessarily go to overclocking right away, just build something that works first, you can always overclock it...

whats the problem with both?, they are easily worth $75 each way. I think if you really have to chose the processor money is better although more inconvenient as it boost your computer's maximum performance level, but without that much ram you might not have a good time on it besides surfing...

Thanks a heap. I totally appretiate that searching you did. If it keeps coming back I'll just run all the SiSandra tests again. Thank you again Tim

Hey guys, Does anyone know what san_test.tmp does. It keeps appearing in the root directories of various drives. I've deleted it but it keeps coming back. If it's something to do with the QoS packet scheduler, I'm getting rid of QoS next time I disconnect. Thanks, Tim

Argh, I don't have a 3.3V adjustment option in the bios, only monitoring (@3.38), can you do it another way. I do have autodetect PCI/DIMM is using that possible? Also, is there a difference between jumper overclocking and per 1MHz overclocking in the bios if offered on the same board? Thanks...

Thanks a heap, Is there anything I should know or do before I do this. I think I'll try it with the 133 ram only first just to make sure. I'll probably get some more if it won't run stable, being so cheap and all. Tim

Hey guys, I've overclocked my system and every reboot the system fails to start the display. When I switch it off it starts perfectly everytime and doesn't get hot. When it starts and turns off monitor you can hear the beeps and IDE interface start, but nothing happens after that It's a...

Cheers zlash, I got a tech guy to fix it for me!!