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Heya! I need to replace a "Foxconn Diabolic TH202 RD Red/Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply - Retail" case with a smaller one. I am looking for a black case, standard ATX mobo (ASUS A8N-E), that is no deeper than 17" (front to back). I have been graced by the almighty...

Will these components work together? PSU: Thermaltake toughpower 600w RAM: Corsair Value Select 1024Mb DDR2 667MHz GPU: BFG 320Mb nVidia Geforce 8800 GTS MOBO: MSI G965M-FI (not sure about this mobo, any other decent Micro-ATX motherboards for around the same price?) CPU: Intel Pentium D...

Hello and thank-you for reading my post, I have been having some small problems with my P.C. I have just opened and installed 2x 16 GB of RAM to replace my 2x 4 GB of RAM both 240 pin. My P.C was working fine before i installed the new RAM. After I installed the ram I bought 5 days ago I tried...

I want to buy an AMD cpu. I understand they are better for gaming than intel, but why do they all seem to be slower than intel? I have an intel 1ghz right now, and was hoping to get something in the range of 2.5-30 ghz, but it seems like the AMDs are way more expensive. I guess I just don't...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt (More info?) I have a SoundBlaster Live Value card that suddenly has started to act strange. It sounds fine playing waves and mp3's that just have music or sound. But if you add voices they are very very low, and almost echoy. It is almost...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20030712011416.html ________________________________________________________ "It is now confirmed that Intel is playing the same bad socket joke it is known for again and current platforms from a lot of mainboard makers will not be compatible with...

My wife told me our computer stopped working the other night without a reason or strange noises. Clicking the power on/off button on front of the machine doesn't do anything. Thinking that it was the power supply I opened the case and noticed that a LED indicator on the mobo is still on. When I...

Hello, I'm building new pc that will also act as media server. 64 GB SSD for OS 4 1.5 TB HDD to be in RAID 10 AsRock Z77 Pro4 Mobo with AMI UEFI I followed previous suggestions and first installed only the SSD, set to ACHI, and loaded Windows 7 successfully. Loaded virus software, fully...

recently bought a new asus a7v333, after having burned my last mobo, cpu (t-bird 950) stayed in tact tho :) phew BUT there is a problem!! the system is VERY unstable. now i've tried all sorts of cpu/memory/3d benchmarks in endless loops, NEVER crashed, it only crashes in games, internet-radio...

Hey, does installing a new OS wipe the harddrive?

I was just wondering, knowing that Intel Pentium 3's are more expensive than Athlon's, and that P3's are better at 3D-games, which is the best purchase for a set price - ie between £100 and £200. I mean i could get a 800 Mhz athlon with that, or a 700 MHz P3. Which should i get for best...

i dont know where to put topics about stores so i put it here. has anyone heard/bought from bunta.com? the site looks pretty legit, but i just wanted to make sure. if no one knows, does anyone know a place that rates sited besides bizrate? i need info asap cause id like to order tonight :)

Anyone know what the minimum operating temeratures of CPUs are? Specifically of 1.4ghz Athlons? I need to know if I can run one in a freezer that gets pretty cold (-78.5C, or -109.3F)

I am sick and tired of the Praise from the P4 from the Intel guys on here. You say oh.. the P4 1.7 is really good and is good against the AMD 1.2 and 1.3 MY GOD u people How DUMB are u? HOW STUPID?? *!* Its 400MHz slower and on par with AMD? HAHAHHA MY GOD that is SAD FOUR HUNDRED MHz...

I have ordered pieces for a new build. I am NOT A GAMER at all, but will do some video editing (Premiere) and photo editing (Photoshop). I have completely overspent what I intended, and have zero $$$ left, but after plowing through many articles on Tom's and some other sites I cannot help but...

I just recently purchased a cooling fan for my computer and it turns out that my SYS_FAN4 on my motherboard doesn't work. I plugged my fan into sys_fan3 and it works perfectly fine. My motherboard is the gigabyte z77x-ud3h. Anyone know how to fix this?

Normally im getting 1.5Ghz on the cpu is that normal but while gaming it goes up to full speed with no lag etc is there something i need to install or do any help would be helpful http://i45.tinypic.com/11b6ted.png

Hey, im in the computer market and i'm not sure exactly how much power i'm going to need. The components are AMD XP 1900+ Radeon 8500 AGP Soltek SL-75DRV2 Modem/lan card 30 gig h.d. 100 MB zip internal drive Santa Cruz sound Koolance water cooling case 256 MB DDR ram 3 1/2 floppy 50X cdrom...

I hope I posted this in the right section >.< I'm looking for a waterblock for the EVGA GTX680 FTW 4Gb Card. http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-3687-KR would this fit it...

I just recently installed a H100 to my Ivy Bridge rig and was wondering what everyone else's temps were at with some light overclocking. I will also have my build down below. I have the H100 installed at the top of my case as an exhaust and only using the two fans pushing air out over the...

My 1TB WD Caviar died and I'm looking to get a combo of an SSD for Windows and games and a normal HDD for data storage. HDDs are cheap and I'm not too concerned about finding one, but there are a ton of SSDs out there and it seems that all review sites favorite different ones. I'm using an...

Hey, I have a PC and the motherboard has died, its a Abit IN9 32X-MAX Wi-Fi Motherboard, and no longer available to purchase. I'm ok with computer stuff but have never bought a motherboard before. I don't want to have to change any other components, but can't find a motherboard to buy, I want...

I overclocked my cpu to 3.6ghz on my AMD 1100T but noticed my memory CL seems not right. Here is a image of my settings i have my ram set in bios to 1600mhz what its suppose be but the timings are 11T. http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i75/mgressel/Untitled-3.png

Has anyone been able to see or hear of the new LGA 2011 boards? I'm waiting to get the new SB-E5 Xeons and wondering if there will be a dual socket LGA 2011 by maybe Tyan or Supermicro.

I have a gateway model creative labs sound blaster audio PCI 128D, and the new drivers wont stinking install! im downloading them because i use roger wilco and the sound from it is a bit hard to undersatand and they told me to download the new ones. what it does is when i install it, everything...

Hey am looking into overclocking my i7 920 but Ive got a Asus rampage 2 gene mother board do you think i should upgrade the motherboard before starting to overclock?

Hi guyz I'm kinda new here & in need of immediate help. I have been offered a laptop by HP specs are: 3rd gen i7 8gb RAM Intel HD 4000 Integrated Nvdia GT 650M 2GB Hybrid Drive of 750 GB and a full HD 15inch screen with a Blu-Ray Player Now I'm intending to play heavy games do a little bit of...

Hey guys I just picked up an enclosure for an hard drive I have laying around. I want to run some tests to make sure shes good to go before I put her into use. What should I run to test it? Thanks :)

I want to set Vcore to specific value like 1.375 on full load. Cpu-z shows that under full load Vcore is ~1.375. But on c1e state (where cpu automatically decreases the multiplier, frequency of mine was 1.6ghz in that state) But it doesnt decrease Vcore.Vcore is always at 1.375. I tried to use...

Respected Sir...Good Evening...I am a Rynga user...but I want to open a new user account in Voip connect...as it is little bit cheaper with voip connect ... So please send me a set up as here in Afghanistan where I work is blocked everything to download. Please help me out this problem... I...

So I recently finished a sort of new system build but had to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my smaller 5000GB drive because of my MOBO change. I was originally using a 1TB Seagate as a primary boot drive, and upon said purchase of this Seagate drive, had successfully cloned my 500GB drive to...

I am looking to upgrade my pc to be able to handle battlefield 3. I was going to upgrade my motherboard, PSU and CPU because I thought this MB was only capable of dual core. It seems as thought it can handle x4 according to this : http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/M2N-SLI_Deluxe.html I just...

I need someone to share the original Bios file for the Hp M7257c computer. It uses the P5LP-LE motherboard. I have a corrupt bios and can not load windows to use the windows version from HP. I have awdflash program for dos but I need the Bin file to install with it. can someone help? thanks...

Hello, I have a defective dell laptop ST94811A hard drive. I need to upgrade it to a higher capacity but it has to be directly plug and play. a 160Gb will do. If no direct replacement is available, where can I find a databook where I could identify its pins so i just can hard wire them with...

Hello, So I was Wondering how i can Overclock my AMD Radeon HD 6950 Graphics card. Here is my Specs: Intel sandy bridge i5 2500k ( not over-clocked) 1x 6950 16 Gigs of Ram 1x 120 Gig Intel SSD .................................................................... Now Im a Very bog N00b when...

some of the graphic card reviews i read (his7850 and gigabyte7850) the review states that the voltage cant be overclocked. are they referring to the included software or is the card actually locked from any software?

Hi, My case won't turn on from the power button now, so I have to turn it on from my motherboard, and it gets kind of tedious... : :o anyways I was just wondering if its bad for my SSD to Hibernate or Sleep my computer so I don't have to go through my computer to turn it on again? I have...

How do you configure a raid set up? and do you need two identical drives? does it increase performance?

I see a lot of these questions posed, but none of them asks or answerers exactly what I am wondering. I understand the differences between 1, 1.2, and 2.0. But, if I bought a GPU that the specifications state 2.0 is the interface, will the card function on a PCI Express x16 1.0? One...

I'm getting 2 OCZ vertex 30gb SSDs and I want to put them in RAID0. Is there a way to do this without losing TRIM support? Also if I format an SSD that has lots of reduntadn unTRIMed data will it go back it its original performance?