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Why on earth would you want/need to? I would never touch a live power supply that has had its case removed. Even touching one that no longer connected to the mains can be dangerous due to charge being stored in capacitors. Touching the components of a live PSU may at best lead to a shock, and...

I have tried headphones which have the same problem as the speakers. I am going to attempt to change the PCI slot the sound card uses, but I'm not too hopefull this will work as the same problem is manifest with both the discreet and onboard sound cards.

I recently bit the bullet and decided to shell out copius amounts of money upgrading my aging computer. Aside from a minor hiccup with keyboard not being recognised during the windows setup all went well. That was, of course, up until the point I decided to test out my speakers. It would appear...

The laptop is no longer under warrenty so I'm not sure if they will help, I also get the sneaking suspision that all they will do is tell me that I need to replace the hard drive. But I suppose it couldn't hurt to try..

The laptop is no longer under warrenty so I'm not sure if they will help, I also get the sneaking suspision that all they will do is tell me that I need to replace the hard drive. But I suppose it couldn't hurt to try...

A friend of mine just gave me an HP NX9010 notebook, the thing appears to be in perfect working order, it turns on fine, everything is detected fine, etc. However when it comes to booting it simply says 'Operating system not found' . I can boot the computer using a bootable CD and there are no...

I am experiencing a problem with the internet connection of one of my computers. While I am able to access the internet from all the other computers in the house, on this particular laptop I am unable to load any websites. Whats odd is that all other web based services seem to be working as they...

How long till the quad core AMD's come out? I think he wants the system pretty soon. I did suggest more RAM but I think the plan is to check out the system performance with 2gigs then buy more if necessary. Unfortunatly its actually my friends uncle that wants the system and I havent spoken...

Thats a little high for idle but well within the themal limits of this CPU, what are the numbers under load? Try using intels themal analysis tool.

this reply is mearly a shameless attempt to raise more interest in this topic

A friend of mine has asked me to build him a server that will convert MPEG2 streams to .flv in real time, I have no idea how much CPU power converting to .flv requires but he wants to do 8streams at once so I opted for 2 quad core Xeons (one core for each stream). What do people think of the...

Cheers guys, I had a look at the article andybird123, doesn't look like the P35 is too promising at the moment, not compared to the 965 or 975's anyway. Raven whats that DFI board like? You got any links to reviews? It seems pretty pricey for a 965, although I was reading that the 965 is as good...

I plan on upgrading my computer next week and here is what I plan on getting: - CellShock 2GB PC6400 CL2 - BFG GeForce 8800GTS OC2 320MB - C2D E6420 - Zalman waterblock ZM-WB4 - Abit AWD-9 Max (intel 975x) I have a couple of questions, the most important of which is about the motherboard. I...

I just use some kitchen roll and white spirit.

Looks pretty good to me, the only thing that is slightly dubious is the PSU. I have no experience with that model myself but if its cheap it might not be great. Its always worth investing in a good PSU if you plan on overclocking, just my two cents.