Recent content by marshallman

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    Must-Have Gaming Peripherals

    My MX518, Everglide titan pad, decent set of headphones, and the logitech desktop mic. and a good desk :D
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    Best order for installing drivers & windows updates?

    The reason I ask is to avoid possible drivers issues I've been having - probably due to my Radeon HD 4850, but it sounds like its not too big a deal. So I am right in thinking it wouldn't make any difference if I installed my chipset drivers with XP SP2 installed, then upgrading to SP3?... Or...
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    Best order for installing drivers & windows updates?

    Ok thanks all for input.
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    Best order for installing drivers & windows updates?

    Coming from reformat and installing XP for first time... My initial thoughts: 1. XP SP3 2. Lan drivers 3. Additional Windows updates + Net Framework 4. Chipset drivers 5. Marvell Sata drivers 5. Graphics card drivers 6. Sound card drivers What do people think? Especially regarding...
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    4850/4870 owners - what .Net Framework version/s do you have?

    Sorry yes I'm using XP. I've not tried earlier drivers but will do soon.
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    4850/4870 owners - what .Net Framework version/s do you have?

    4850/4870 owners - what .Net Framework version/s do you have? I'm currently experiencing sudden crashes and restarts when catalyst 8.7 drivers are installed, and Windows event log suggests it is to do with a device driver. My inital thoughts were that it may be due to .net framework, so I...
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    Disk image restore with dual boot question

    Hey I currently have 2 x 250GB hard drives; the first with XP and Vista on separate partitions, and the second for data/media. My question is: Is it safe to restore an OS disk image without removing the partitions i.e. restoring an XP disk image back to its original partition whilst keeping...
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    Tightening memory timings

    Just finished my first build - D805 @ 3.33ghz Im running Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400C4 (dual kit) Basically I would like to know how to lower timings/ and how much by? That memory is verfied for 4-4-4-12 can I lower this and will this improve performance? As you may have guessed im newb to...
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    Antec p180 and PSU choice - please help!

    Hey, my first post here! I'm thinking of buying a p180 however I've heard problems with the cables not reaching things like optical drives, due to the PSU being at bottom. What I really would like to know is which of these PSU's to get, and will all of them avoid that problem above ^ ? Going...