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Ok, I got my Duron 750 today and closed L1s, and hooked it up and everything. installation went smooth with the waterblock, everthing is cool. I started it up, played some NFS-5 for awhile, then went to check and it was 30c! This is with the water flowing quite slowly (the valve is turned less...

I have been running 2 GTX 480's in SLI and even though the temps have been manageable at Stock clocks running Battlefield 3 in Ultra everything on High bring the cards to temps in the mid to upper 70 degrees Celsius, I'd like to overclock both cards so I bought 2 Danger Den Water Blocks. Now the...

So here the problem, i have an internal hard drive in an external enclosure. I accidentally pulled the USB cable and tumbling down came the hard drive. When i plug it in Windows (Vista home premium) recognizes it as USB mass storage but it doesn't show up in "My Computer". Now when i plug it in...

I have a Compaq Presario SR2050NX that I've debugged and determined that the onboard HD controller is bad. I bought a Sabrent PCI SATA card to try and use without reinstalling windows on the HD. I followed the directions on installing the controller and it's not working to boot the primary...

Which of these can overclock H61 H67 Z68 P67 any LGA1155

When i bought my computer, I got Canada Computers to put together all the parts, and i told them to overclock my intel core i7 2600k CPU to 3.8 ghz (it's stock at 3.4), since I bought a liquid cooler for it (The Antec H2O Kuhler 920) My temperatures right now are pretty damn good, the core...

Hello, My system has encountered a problem. The system has been randomly shutting down and/or restarting. Last night, the system hung and I had to do a reset. From there, it would start to boot, but hang where it would normally show the list of drives on the screen, and gives you the DELETE...

My Apoen motherboard won't just display. I have tried changing the RAM, resetting the CMOS, changing the graphic card but it won't just display

Hello,i'm using the above mobo and pro with 4gb 1333 corsair black, on board graphics and stock cooling. the ambient temperature where i stay is 35-38 and cpu gets to 45-50 on normal use. i tried overclocking using Turbo V to 3.6Ghz and ram from 533 to 667 using amd overdrive. My SMPS blew and...

Is xigmatek thermal paste good enough or should I break down and get a tube of expensive AS5? Or does someone have another suggestion on the paste to use on my i5-2500k and xigmatek Dark Night HSF? Thanks!

Rig: Destroyer Tower 750W 850W bottom mount Corsair PSU AMD 1100T hex-core native 3.2ghz (iirc) CPU Overclocked to 3907-4007mhz at 28-35C Crosshair V mobo 3x Nvidia GT470's GPU (All Overclocked) SLI 8gb Corsair DDR3-13000 Raid 0 solid state Mushkin 60gb(ea) OS drive Raid 5 3x 750gb Western...

hi guys, can anyone recommend me a good and affordable cpu cooler and case fans for my i7-2600k. i am planning to oc it to 4.5ghz, so advise me accordingly :D i heard of complains of aftermarket coolers that does not help much, please give me good advice thanks! :D oh and i am inclined to buy...

I've been working hard to oc my pII955 to 3.8 ghz, but I have been running into stability issues. It will last about 5 hours at 3.8 ghz in prime 95 blend, and then prime95 crashes. Here are my voltages. CPU NB: 1.4V NB: 1.15V CPU CORE: 1.45V DRAM: 1.65V NB Frequency: 2400MHZ Max Temp:53C Any...

Hey guts just wanted to ask the best in the world......... I have a sager NP8150 and its on it way home from getting upgraded. before up grades CPU- i7 2630qm GPU- ati 6970m I was getting temps around 60-70 on CPU and 70-80 on GPU under load. Gaming on like BFBC2. But I am just wondering...

I have Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3, G.SKILL Ripjaws (with big teeth), i7-2600k, 850w modular psu. Would to like to buy a 500R carbon cosair case (with a 200mm side fan) and one maybe two 6950 video cards when I can get a better price for them. My question is I looked into cpu coolers and...

So, I recently got my paws on an Intel Xeon L5640 (LGA 1366), and after doing some reading and research, decided to pick up the Asrock X58 Extreme motherboard, due to its low price, the compatibility with the Xeon cpu I have, and some nice features. I'm pairing this with 6gb (3x2gb) of G.Skill...

I posted this thread earlier, but I didn't get a correct response... let's try this again. Well I looked allover my BIOS and I can't seem to find the utility that allows you to overclock the CPU, I've looked everywhere. It's an ECS board that came with a factory-made PC, but almost every part...

Some of the better water cooling systems can get well over $100.00 allowing for overclock speeds that typically could be purchased in a higher-speed chip yes? Of course this assumes a certain budget of spending, else one would buy the fastest CPU and then high-end cooling. What I'm asking is: IF...

Hey, I just put together my new computer. I have the i7 2600k processor, an Apevia X-QPack2 case and a MSI Z68 motherboard. When I was running BIOS it said my CPU temperature was at 83 degrees celsius. However, I opened up the case and the heatsink and the motherboard barely felt room...

I'm wondering how far can you push a performance edition video card that is set to not drain power. This card does not require an addition power source other than the pcie slot. I have it overclocked from the stock core 550mhz to 586mhz, shader to 1475mhz and memory clock to 905mhz. The card...

Hi All, I got my Radeon HD6570 as part of my HP system. Works ok for the most part but want to squeeze out as much possible power out of it. I've seen posts about MSI afterburner as a means to OC the card, but haven't had any luck. I've tried different versions, and changed the config...

hey guys. I just got 100 dvd's (alpha high performance 16x) in my mailbox, and had a lot of stuff to burn to them. But unfortunately, when I try to burn .iso and .img files to the dvd's using either NERO 9 or Ashampoo burning studio it just fails. It accepts the dvd, but as soon as the...

When I cut my teeth so to speak on computers as a little kid (now a big kid in college using Dad's THG forum account) there was a solid reason to dual boot. Before I had my own computer, and had to use dad's, he had it set up so that nothing I could do as an impulsive little kiddie could hurt...

I have a Seagate 500GB and an old Seagate 80GB. I’ve built this system and it’s not prebuilt whatsoever. I’m familiar with partitioning and etc… However, I need some second opinions and advice before taking action. I want to run a dual boot with Windows XP (which’s already installed) on the...

I took a hard disk drive out of my broken Sony Vaio: Seagate Momentus ST9120821AS. I can not find an enclosure or dock to allow me to transfer my files. It is NOT your standard SATA HDD with pins that slide into the enclosure. This model has flat connections which when plugged into the...

I have a new fujitsu Hard Drive that I placed in an external case that runs off the USB. My windows XP system will not assign it a drive letter and doesn't recognize it. If I go into the Control Panel it sees the drive and says the proper drivers are installed. What gives? Thanks P.S. I...

Currently stable at CPU: 3600MHz: 300x12 | vCore: 1.42 (1.37 vDrop on load) HT: 1920MHz CPU/NB: 3000MHz | 1.35v RAM: 1600 7-9-8-24 | 1.6 Temps: 50-55C or CPU: 3600MHz: 260x14 | vCore: 1.44 (1.38 vDrop on load) HT: 2080MHz CPU/NB: 2600MHz | 1.35v RAM: 1386 7-9-8-24 | 1.6 Temps: 50-55C Which...

Please help my Facebook OC group by joining its ranks and posting your OC results. Thanks! Sincerely tt

how i replace the new raid hard and copy all data in new hard for raid 1? (for full mirror data)

Hi, my question is similar but not exactly the same as some here regarding some sort of protection on my USB. There are files that i have saved on it from my work laptop but when i try to open and save them on my personal computer it says the USB drive is empty. It is not though for as soon as i...

Is anyone out there using the ASUS TurboV for overclocking? How is it? It looks like a substitute for going into the bios to set the overclocking parameters.

Hi, I have an Athlon II x4 635 that I'm gonna be installing soon. I also have a 2yo Thermaltake TR2-R1 heatsink, which says it only supports CPUs only up to 90W TDP. Should I not use it because of this reason? I'm also planning on doing just a little OC'ing (from 2.9 to ~3.2). CPU's stock...

Hello, How to overclock amd phenom II x2 555 BE at biostar TA 790GX A3+

Hey all, Still a newbie to the OC world and using the windows based software to do my overclocking. When using TurboV EVO, I was able to get a stable 241x16 @ 3856mhz. However, I blue screen at 252x16 @ 4032mhz. I've seen multiple threads where people have been able to pass 4000mhz without...

i have an dfi lp dk x58-T3eH6 and i can't update my bios (i have no floppy).

Hello, I have a Xigmatek Dark Knight that I bought from the Egg about a month ago. Recently I noticed that there was some dried stuff on the top fin of the heatsink, so I rubbed it off with rubbing alcohol (91%) and wiped it with some lint-free cloth. However, when I looked at the heatsink about...

So I used Nero 7's Lightscribe burning program (CoverDesigner or something) today for the first time, just to see what this whole Lightscribe thing was about. It took about 18 minutes to burn a fairly large image, so no issue there. The problem is that during the whole duration of the burning...

Hey guys I have a question about my overclock. I have it stable at 3.6ghz at 1.27 vcore. At idle my temps are around 36 Celsius but load the temps seem really high after running prime95 around 70-80 celsius. Is this normal or does it have to do with the thermal compound not curing yet and...

Hello, I would like to check how far I can go with OC on my setup. I run win xp 32/sp3. I managed to unlock 4th core, but I am interested how to UNLEASH my cpu now (OC it:). I am a bit on n00b, so plese be gentle, I need rather step by step information. thanks in advance

I am using a ECS BLACK SERIES A780GM-A motherboard and although its limited, overclocking is possible. The problem is that when I set a FSB, CPU-Z indicates that the FSB is not changing on a 1:1 ratio. For example: I set the FSB to 209 and CPU-Z says that the FSB is actually 208.9 Does anyone...