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Thanks for all the replies It turns out that the system was very dusty inside (hadn't done maintenance in around 2 years), so I hoovered out quite a bit of the dust. The system now gets up to 86-87'C, but is still loud (CPU Fan always on full), idle temps of around 45'C. I think the...

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Hi guys I've currently got a Q6600 running at 3.6GHz, 1.40v, on an Asus P5Q Pro with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. When running Prime 95 on the second option (in place large FFTs) I get up to 95-98'C in CoreTemp. It's pretty obvious I need to upgrade the cooler, especially as I want...

I've had many USB sticks, mainly from OCZ. But the last one I bought was an ATV 8gb which was rubbish, died after 2 weeks light use. I got it RMA'ed for another, which also died within like 2 days. Then I got it RMA'ed again, this time they upgraded me to a 16GB Rally2 (had a blue LED unlike my...

Thanks for your replies guys I think I'll go for the 9db ones in that case because I'm already getting 2-3 bars, at 27mbps, I just need it that bit more solid Edit: Also I pinged the router 1000 times from the command line on the computer that has the weak reception and it returned the...

Thanks for your reply Could you just let me know which router you had and which antennas you tried? Thanks again!

Hi everyone I have a Draytek 2820n that came with 3 x 3db (or maybe 2db) antennas. Draytek manufacture 5db antennas to extend the range of their routers. They sell a pack of 3 of these. However, I've seen many 9db antennas (omni-directional like the Draytek and original ones)...

Ok, I ordered an OCZ Onyx 32GB SSD instead, and fitted it using this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260596971191 BUT, I didn't install it in the multibay drive (ATA Channel 1 which is limited to UDMA2 or 30MB/s in the BIOS but can be software unlocked but this is AFTER...

Hi everyone I've got an old laptop (HP nw8000 Mobile Workstation) with an Intel ICH4M (I think) as the storage controller. Basically, my options for installing a new Hard Drive are IDE or SATA (with an adapter) and either one maxes out at approx 90MB read/write. I need a new hard drive...

I haven't yet found my GFX to be much of a bottleneck, but then again I don't really game... the most I do is Photoshop work... these old DX9 chips don't seem to have hardware acceleration in CS5 anyway... The RAM:FSB Ratio will automatically change when you put the FSB up, provided you...

I've been researching and I think I'm going to get one of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-088-SA At 640GB, and much higher speeds (74MB/s average read as opposed to 52MB/s for the Western Digital), I think it's much more worth it... plus it's cheaper! I'm first...

ahhh mate! if you can get that 2.0GHz stable at 2.66GHz then that would be amazing! I'd just jump straight into feeding it 1.59volts, the heat isn't an issue! You'd need to reprogram the SPD for your RAM though Also you'll need to short those 2 pins on your clock generator which I mentioned...

hey everyone I got some free time today so I sat down with my drive and tested it etc... turns out the drive is faulty The overclock is fine, the laptop is running perfectly using my old drive... this new one seems to pass the drive tests, but it can't even manage an installation of...

actually I've had some problems with this laptop since I put in the WD3200BEVE, my windows 7 installation kept becoming corrupt, requiring reinstall after reinstall (fully formatting each time)... I even tried XP but the same problem, XP wouldn't even install! (Disk Errors)... either the...

Oh by the way, I forgot to say that the WD3200BEVE increased the Windows 7 HDD score from 4.4 to 5.5 :) The average read on this drive seems to be around 80-90% faster than the old one!

Well actually I haven't seen the CPU go above 60'C on full load (Intel Burn Test)! This thing is really amazingly cool and quiet, the fans don't even go up to max on Intel Burn Test... it's crazy! I think if I ran Prime 95 for around 1 hour straight then enough heat would build up inside the...

Hi everyone I just wanted to share my overclocking experiences on my HP nw8000 Mobile Workstation Made back in April 2004, this laptop has a 1.8GHz Pentium M Dothan 2MB processor, with a 400MHz FSB. The laptop's chipset is an Intel i855PM, which is only rated to do 100MHz FSB. I tried...

Ordered the 320GB WD Scorpio Blue, hopefully will come tomorrow :) Will post results :) Just modded the clock generator and volt modded the cpu on the laptop to go from 1.8GHz to 2.4GHz (Dothan) as well, running IBT and hasnt gone above 60'C so I'm guessing all is good! Well I guess I...

I did a HD Tune Benchmark with my current Hitachi 60GB 7200RPM (set to 8mb block and accurate) and I got the following: Min: 17.3MB/s Max: 37.9MB/s Avg: 28.9MB/s Access: 15.4ms Burst: 65.9 MB/s CPU: 7.1% I found the following results for a 160GB HM160HC Should I just get one of...

Hi guys I'm looking to upgrade my HP NW8000 which currently has a Hitachi Travelstar 60GB 7200RPM (7K60). I've been looking at the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-271-WD What do you think? Also, what...