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I looked on newegg and I saw the p8p67 up for sale now. What mobo / cpu combo would you guys recommend with around 500$ to spend? Is there anything better coming out in a months time? mobo/cpu I was waiting to buy the new Mobos because of the recall and I kind of spent my money that I was...

What is the major difference between the 2 chips? I am looking at the 2 to decide which laptop to buy. I am looking for speed and power

i have E7300 @ 2.66ghz cpu 45nm and GA-VM900M mobo which does not support 45nm cpu. does it could cause freeze on my pc? :( bcoz i am having freeze now.

I'm currently running Vista 32 bit and will be upgrading to Windows 7 soon and I am thinking while I'm at it, it might be a good idea to upgrade to 64 as I would have to buy Windows 7 again to upgrade later. This is what I have currently. Intel Core 2 Dual E6600 2.4GHz 1066 FSB/Asus P5N-E SLI...

I am building my first pc and there are a few things that i cant figure out. I pluged in my cpu and its fan, than i plugged the 4 pin connector for the fan in, and it turned on. right next to the cpu on the mobo is a 8 socket power conector(sorry dont know what it is really called) but my psu...

guys i wanted to know which one will better: 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 (single stick) or 1Gb Kingston HyperX DDR2 800 (single stick) im taking a single stick so that i can upgrade another gb and then another till 4gb :). one more thing. Can u tell me about the importance of timing and which ones...

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: 2 or 3 weeks SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: GAMING, programming, web , movies PARTS NOT REQUIRED: keyboard, mouse, monitor , speakers, OS PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: www.izarmicro.net (GPU, CPU and MOBO), www.tranza.com (PSU, OPTICAL DRIVE, CASE...

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I just purchased 3 sticks of Corsair XMS PRO 3200 ,i was wondering how good this memory is for performance, im guessing its leaning on enthusiast but is it top line? And sorry but i dont have dual channel (s754) My system is as follow: AMD Athalon64 3200+ OC'd to 2.4ghz GA-K8NS REV 1.1 1.5gb...

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I just bought a Q6600 and I was wondering if this chip will run fine in a 32 bit environment or do I need to run a 64 bit software? Pretty much will this run on Windows XP Pro 32 bit?

Hi, Recently built my system and it worked fine for 7 days and then the liberty 500w died. However I RMA'ed and a new one is in the post. It begs the question - why did it die and I was wondering if I pushed it to far. I thought It would be able to cope with my system and an overclocked CPU...

Hey. I bought a computer and I will have this motherboard: http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7s5a.html . It comes with 256mb sdram and obviously im replacing this junk with new memory. Within my balance I can purchase either 1gb pc1600 DDR or 512 pc2100 DDR. What you guys think will perform...

Ok I have a problem with my new build. First here are the specs: P4C800 deluxe P4 3.0 OC to 3.7 OCZ PC4000 Gold ATI 9800 pro Antec True 550 SP94 80 mm tornado fan The problem I have is after playing games. When I am done playing and I want to check my e-mail or surf for a few it won't hook up...

New build for me yet to choose cpu or gpu. Also can upgrade in the future so keep that in mind when voting. These are around the same price. You comments are welcome. If there are any other options for a AM2 pair for $700 - $800 let me know. I have a Asus AM2 SLI board. Please look at the two...

Hi guys and gals, I have had my pc for over a year now and all of my games crash with the sounds heard last repeating them selfs then a crash. After that the computer ether reboots or do not and says the problem is with a device driver and says nothing other than that. I have tryed updating my...

I have recently reformated my hard drive to install Windows XP Pro. The computer boots from the cd successfully and begins to load files needed to complete the windows setup. After finishing, it says that it has to shut down to complete the installation. So it reboots itself and loads from the...

Hi Guys, I really need some help. I have just finished working on a computer, and need the Sound card driver for it. I cant seem to find anything on the web to download the driver. Has anyone got a link? Need it ASAP please. I need it for a Packard Bell iXtreme 302 Cheers Brett

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?) I don't have much idea about what CPU is to be honest, but I'm wondering if I can increase it. I've installed a programme that says my computer's too slow to run it and it needs to be at least 1.6 GHz. Idiot's...

i just purchased a new ssd installed it turned comp on windows downloaded software good to go except doesnt show up under computer. Go into device manager it shows up in there and says working properly but i have no option to start installing files to that drive wat can i do?? also i want to...

Problem: my Seagate TR4 which was bought 4 years ago with a Gateway has stopped working. If it is connected to an IDE channel, my PC takes 2 or 3 minutes to boot as it tries to identify IDE devices; don't think there is a conflict between them but just writing this I guess I should check...

I was one of the poor, unfortunate souls who bought MSI's K7T266 pro board 6380(the first version). I have had nothing but trouble with this board since day 1. I am still unable to run any decent games without locking up. So I am giving up on this board and want to purchase a reliable...

Hello, i am trying to install a new hard drive in my old hp 530 notebook (Model # FH523AA). The new drive is a hitachi 250gb 5400rpm 8mb SATA - 300 (HTS545025B9A300) and it already has Windows XP installed on it (It came out of my other notebook.) The old drive which I want to replace is a...

Hey guys, I relativly new to tom's hardware and thought I'd write here to see if you can help me with the trouble i'm having.. I just put 700$ worth of upgrades into my machine. the problem is that when i use the machine it tends to freeze for a couple seconds then return to normal and after a...

I have the AMD A6-5400k APU and i overclocked the Graphics chip using AMD Overdrive, to a stable point Last week i tried to overclock it even further then it crashed my problem is that i forgot to change "Load settings at boot" to FALSE. now everytime AMD Overdrive starts my computer crashes...

Hi Guys, I am new here and I know this question has been asked a million times but I am looking to purchase a monitor that will excel at gaming and provide good use as a photo editing screen since I do photography part time. I have narrowed it down to the following models: Samsung P2570...

I did not know what sction too put this under at this time My Question is i bought a Packard Bell Imedia computer this month and where the CD drive is hidden by that flap theyre was a sticker on it, I took this off with it leaving tons of residue behind which was impossible too get rid of i...

Hey folks, I have an interesting dilemma here that I was really hoping to get some feedback on: My rig is hooked up to a 27" Toshiba television via the built-in PC VGA connector. Unfortunately, the BIOS screen does not display on this setup. In the past when I've needed into safe mode I've just...

*edit* I see that there's a similar post to this already on the board. That beiong the case, I have two questions that were not addressed yet: 1) Which monitor of the four I listed below are good for the resolutions I want to use and 2) if anyone can give me any info on P95f, I'd be thankful. I...

Hello, I have webcam installed in my lap top. But now it is not visible. What should I do?

I have a problem my computer keeps turning off for no reason i took it to the shop got new fans new thermal paste on the cpu and such and all but it keeps happening so i need to know if my temps are too high or if its my PS

This: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/904346/Is%20this%20bad.png Yeah, the program says it's hot, but what is Temp2 and Temp3? My Core(assumed CPU?) and HDs are fine, so how hot can these undefined objects get?

I'm a total novice at anything to do with liquid cooling but I am interested in the benefits that it offers. I'm planning a system build towards the end of the year which will consist of the following components: -Asus Sabertooth X58 -Intel Core i7 960 (stock speed) -6x Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3...

Hi all, After a long time of hugging my q6600 I thought it time to upgrade. Which current i7 cpu would you guys recommend for the purpose of overclocking ? I found my B stepping G0 Revision q6600 to be the best overclocker in the old quad days and was wondering if the same kind of rules...

As you all know, EVGA stopped producing the backplates for the GTX 470 specifically. I would use the EK backplate but it's meant to be used in conjuction with the EK Water block. So I have decided I'm going to be custom engineering my own pure cooper backplates for my GTX 470's in SLI. I will...

i just bought it and started thinking if the weight is somewhat dangerous for my pc?

I came across this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/259901-11-heatspreader-lapping-guide the other day and wondered has anyone done this and what where the results and does anyone know can you do this to any CPU and can you do it to heatsinks with the heatpipes directly in contact with the...

hi everyone thanks for reading my subject so you can see my rig below on my signature though my i7 930 is running on stock speed and im thinking to overclock it with Cooler Master V8 to 3.6 GHZ without disabling the hyper threading technology so any thoughts will be helbfull and thanks all again