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Ok, so a few weeks ago my old PC died and unable to find out which part was causing the problems i got all new hardware. ASUS P5G41C-M LX Motherboard Dual core 2.9GHz Pentium processor 2X 1GB DDR2 Crucial Balistix memory and an ASUS Radeon HD 4650 graphics card (PCI-e) old hardware...

Okay I know this is going to be a very odd request but can anyone recomend to me a good graphics card nvidia or ati which has svideo out, composit video out and that works? I'm trying to make myself a performance media box and to be extra clever i'm trying to make it with a fully functional...

I've only ever found it a problem with graphics card when a heatsink is tensioned too much and it puts a curve in the board, the card's worked fine but occasionally it gives off a high pitched squeel. listen carefully to it to see if you get the same problem it'd be interesting if you did.

Thanks scottiB, some sound advice there, i'll give sandra a blast anyway but i've run 3dMark06 now and got a score of 6254 SM2: 2739 SM3: 2646 CPU: 1784 ORB seems to think it's about average for the spec, middle between fastest and slowest so i'm going to just beat windows with a big digital...

If i do find a problem, how can i go about troubleshooting it? I've run programs like memtest, prime95 (on both cores) and on all stress tests, but i'm thinking it might be the 7900 card, is there any way to test that other then 3Dmark?

Ok, i've been having my suspisions for some time now about my system... even when i first got it it seemed a bit... slugish and not quite as good as it should be. i upgraded from an MX440 to a 7900GTX and saw... little improvement in HL2 now, this is my system spec, same one as in my...

w00t! well that's me sorted =D

meh... that AND the motherboard upgrade at out of my budget... by a long way! i was loooking at spending bare minimum on a graphics card or not at all. right now i'm happy with the majority of the effects my computer and graphics card can run crysis on, but i really think it's just the CPU...

Wow, you've cirtanly given me somethign to ponder over Thanks for the chipset info, i know what to look for now. I'm a little reluctant to switch to ATI, so many of my games are made for nvidia and i can really see the differance, and i'm a little paranoid about ATI GPUs being hotter then the...

i have crashed two completely different fird fiestas in bodlewyddan Back on topic: Q. Why are they crap in comparison? Q. do you have refferances to benchmark infomation to support the answer to the above question? Q. If i went for an intel chipset, which one ovffers the best value for...

yeah so i've got crysis for chriatmas, great game but my system just wont run it effectivly. :( my current system is in my sig and i'm looking to upgrade to an intel core2quad and get a mobo with a 680i chipset... now, the reason this thread is in the cooling section is because I want to...

It -IS- a FIAT yes... but it's a fiat coupe 20VT, 240bhp over the front wheels is more than enough for me, and i get a nice leather interior too with aircon, what more could you ask for. ok... satvan, but you cant have everything :P the computer's working fine now apart from one little...

this isn't my rig, i'm sticking with my AMD X2 for now, this new rig is for my best mate, hence the tight budget. but then again, i've got 2 cars, one of which is very fast and italian so my budget for upgrades is even worse! :P

thanks gt_junkie, i passed on your advice to my m8 and he said he was happyier with the SLI, maybe i'll give you guys more advanced warning next time i build a rig. to get back on topic now the computer for the most part is sorted.. it was the RAID 5 array that was slowing everything down...

it's been over 2 weeks since i bought them, overclockers was out of stock of some parts so i had to wait untill i could even turn the system on, and like i said, those cards were the best available at the time... also i dont trust anything from gigabyte, i'm a bit of a nazi when it comes to them...

Q. why have you SLi'd two low end graphics cards? A. I did it because they are the most powerfull passivly cooled boards available to me at the time and within my budget because the spec required a near silent setup. Q. Have you checked all 4 cores are recognised by windows? A. All 4 cores...

I've just built a system for a friend and it's PAINFULLY slow at everything! Spec: Intel Core 2 Quat Q6600 2.4GHz MSI P6N SLI-F v2 650i motherboard Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX 2X: XFX GeForce 8500 GT Silent 256MB DDR2 (SLIed) Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI...

no, i've already specked up a rig for him, got it to £550 with very few compromises, i've carefully talored it to him and met all his needs including geforce 8 cards runing in SLi with a quad core CPU and 4X 250GB drives running in RAID 5... in the end i've decided to go with...

No it's not going to be overclocked and the budget is £600 and with that he wants SLi graphics. If you can recomend a good quiet heat sink (possibly fanless) that'll cool a quad core i might be able to talk him into increasing the budget a bit

Guys, somone's asked my to build a computer for them, now they're asking for some very processot intencive stuff and givin me a ***** budget but they have specified one thing... it must be quiet!!! What is the quietist cooling solution for a intel quad core? I was looking at water cooling but...