Recent content by whallenich

Hi, After quite a bit of mucking around I hacked off the back 1/4 part of the aluminium base of the stock cooler and bolted it to the card (with a thermal adhesive strip sandwiched between the aluminium base and the voltage regulators. On the aluminium base I affixed 8 blue Zalman heatsinks...

Answering the questions above. My PSU is a 750 - Silverstone DA750 should be more than enough I thought; My system is otherwise completely stable passes memory, hard drive and cpu tests. I'm also not overclocking; Specs are as follows: ASUS P5Q-E (1003), Lianli PC7PLUS, Silverstone DA750...

Hi, I'm having a problem running Mass Effect, World in Conflict and Company of Heroes. Basically after running these games for a short while (a couple of minutes max) the screen goes blank, the monitor goes into stand by mode and it looks as though my PC has crashed. I then need to cold boot...

I upgraded from a QX6700 to a Q9450. The speed difference, as mentioned above, is minimal however I have noticed the Q9450 does run a lot cooler than my QX6700 ever did. The Q9450 idles at 33 oC with Arctic Freezer 7 Pro whereas my QX6700 idled at 45 oC on the same cooling. I was/am running a...

I got a Q9450 off eBay awhile back. They seem to be readily available there. I paid $360.00.

Ditto my Sapphire runs fine :)

Fixed it.

Hi, I had the same problem with my XFi Fata1ity card - in the end I bought a capable adapter from performance-pcs.com which worked like a charm. Also have a look at http://audigy2zshowto.blogspot.com/ Hope that helps.

Hi guys, Answering a few things. I upgraded to the 3870X2 because at the resolutions I was running at 1680 x 1050 I was finding real performance hits especially in COH. The 3870X2 has really improved performance in this respect. I have now cheked out the GPGNET forum and found that there may...

Hi Flakes I tried your suggestion several times. Alas this didn't change my problem.

I've recently upgraded my PC from a 8800 GTS 512 to a 3870X2. Generally I'm happy I made the move - there are real world performance gains. However, I now have a problem running Supreme Commander which worked fine before the upgrade. When I load the game I am presented with the error "Unable to...

I had a similar problem with my 8800 GTX and then my 8800 GTS 512 which I replaced it with. Whenever I would hibernate the PC it would do a power cycle down and then up and then re-enter windows and Nvidia sentinel would inform my card was not getting enough power. In the end no one could...

So I have 2 cards that I can put in my PC and am trying to decide which card I will put in my PC: 1) a xfx 8800 gtx extreme edition; and 2) xfx 8800 gts 512 (g92) I am thinking of keeping the xfx 8800 gts 512 (g92) and upgrading my motherboard (from the asus p5b-e to a 780i board such as the...

Just putting this out there - I wouldn't recommend buying the Creative Zen Stone Plus 2 GB. Additionally this post should serve as word of warning for dealing with Creative Technical Support generally. I bought a Zen Stone Plus 2GB player late last year. It initially worked well (except for...

I’m wondering if you can help me with the following memory problem. I just installed a 2 GB kit (2 x 1GB) of Kingston Hyper X PC8500 (1066 MHZ) DD2 RAM (KHX8500D2K2/2G) on my Asus P5B-E motherboard. I went into the BIOS and manually entered the speed (1066 MHZ) and timing (5-5-5-15)...