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Ahh thanks for the awesomely fast reply. This was exactly the thing I was thinking of. I'm not too worried about accuracy, just looking for a ballpark figure. good stuff

hi folks, longtime site reader & first time poster. i'm looking for a good way to measure actual, real-world PSU wattage. I've been running a Linux server in a closet now for about 5 years. (Arch Linux is the distro.) The experience has been an arduous but rewarding task, and it now runs as a...

I mean, yeah this **** sucks. I now own an overclocking board that can't really overclock. I've tried everything; new and old bios versions, all sorts of different voltage settings... I just don't get it. Btw, do you have any problems running benchmarks? Half the time sandra locks up hard or...

Hey all. So i've got this phenom rig that I put together recently. It runs fine, but I've been having some trouble overclocking the thing. I seem to have a limit at about 3ghz for overclocking. I'm able to raise the multiplier in the BIOS to about 14x with no issues; post, vista loads...

Well, the BIOS oc issue kinda got resolved; I'm able to change all those values & itposts & ****. Now I'm getting problems loading windows. I copied your settings there on my system, and I can't set the multiplier above 14x. When I do, vista won't even load; it locks hard. Even the install CD...

Yeah, it's pretty sweet. That board's got other problems for me though; I can't overclock, for instance http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/uk/icones/smilies/pfff.gif The moment I try to change the multiplier, it won't post (hangs at "DET DRAM")

Well, a CMOS clear fixed it; kinda feel stupid that i didn't try that earlier. Wish i knew what caused it tho. Thanks for the suggestions. edit: I since found that enabling "memory remapping" allows me access to the rest.

Thanks. Yeah, I've ran tests on that ram in a machine at work. They're both fine (they should be, cause I bought them about a month and a half ago.) Both will be reported at the right sizes if I try them individually; it's just the combination that throws it off. I really don't think it's the...

Hey folks. I finished putting together a system recently and all was well for a while. I've got a Phenom 9950 Black, Asus Crosshair II formula board, and 2 sticks of 2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 memory. The build went alright, I put vista ultimate on it, etc. and everything ran fine. Then I...