Recent content by zotexa

Hey all, looking to do some cheap upgrades to my system. Looking at a few used Phenom X4's, the X4 9850BE (HD985ZXAJ4BGH) and the X4 9950BE(HD995ZXAJ4BGH). Now both of these arent on the supported CPU list for my board (M2N68-AM SE2 - http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/M2N68-AM_SE2.html) and...

Second monitor wont work on either port (apart from briefly showing for a second), main monitor works on both ports, tried with different cables and left PC/Monitor unplugged all night then plugged back in and still nothing. Safe to assume monitor is dead?

Aye I've reseated all the cables, disabled and renabled it, left it unplugged etc. By the Windows thing I meant that it was fine on my old installation but seems to have only started after the reinstall. I did notice the monitor made an odd sound for a few seconds last week, almost like a...

Reinstalled 7 last week and forgot to disable all the power saving stuff, now my second monitor is stuck in power saving mode. If I print screen and paste it the extended desktop is there, if I turn the monitor on and off the desktop briefly appears for a second and it's the same if I change the...

You sure it'll work? Not too knowledgeable on the whole compatibility thing but here's a shot of the IBM that shows the PCI riser

My bad I phrased it wrong, the XP machine functions as a torrent machine/hosts some IRC servers, and once they've downloaded I then transfer them over to the 7 machine. The XP machine only has a legacy PCI port since it's an old IBM A50 hence the USB nic.

Usually from the XP machine to the download folder of my main PC which is on a Sandisk SSD.

Yeah the XP machine has a 2.0 connection and the drive is a 160GB WD Caviar Green. I'd be happy if it was a consistent 30MB/s and for the most part it's always large file transfers since it's coming from a torrent machine. Is there any way to figure out what would cause the speed drops? I...

Here's the previous thread about hardware/my plan etc http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2934098/gigabit-nic-transfers.html My plan was two gigabit cards for direct transfers but my XP machine is old and doesn't have PCIE so I had to settle for a USB to Gigabit for that and an Intel PRO...

hey guys, on my network I have my main PC running 7 ultimate and an XP machine running XP professional which is used to host IRC and download torrents. They're both connected to an Edimax ES-3124RL 10/100M Ethernet switch. I set up a shared drive on the XP machine to transfer downloads over...

at the most itll just be running two mirc instances/just a mess around rig hence the low specs, was just worried incase it was infact hitting 70c lol. was only £25 so im not bothered over it, thanks for the help though might have to look into a bay controller since I wont be using the disc drive...

ello everyone bought myself a cheap system off ebay (yeah yeah i know) which is JUST for running/hosting IRC channel bots. it's an IBM thinkcentre 8320-75g. here's the Speccy shot: now the 70c is worrying since it's just idling running two instances of mIRC so i installed coretemp: and...