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Validate my Gaming Rig Components

I would agree that at this point it just makes sense to rma the board and buy a new graphics card. I have an opteron 170 and i reckon that this setup will last another year before I'll consider a change of platform. By the way the Enermax Liberty is an excellent power supply unit and would...
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- Post #10
- Feb 24, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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little upgrade insight?

If you can get a cheap socket 939 dual core opteron or x2 2nd hand I reckon that setup will easily last you another year before you need to consider changing your platform. You have a very fast graphics card and that is really the major limitation with games today.
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- Post #4
- Feb 16, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Tipping sucks, get a real economy where that price is built into your bills ;)

The trouble with the whole tipping malarky is that the kitchen staff get forgotten in the endless debate. I recently quit as a full time back of house team member at a UK pizza hut. I was doing 60 hours a week when I should have been doing 40, was doing half the manager's function and often...
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- Post #245
- Jan 22, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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G80 series or price reduced 7950GTX's..

sounds like a driver issue, I can run HL2 at 1280x1024 with everything turned up on this 3200, x800xt and 1gb ram rig. Not sure what the frame rate is but it's certainly very smooth. That's a point, what res are you running this stuff at?
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- Post #10
- Oct 19, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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New 3D Viz PC Help!

To be honest i'd get a cheaper conroe chip if a few months along the line it'll be replaced for the the quad core kentsfield. These chips seem to be excellent overclockers, will offer a lot more power than you have currently and you'll be able to step up to a quad core that much sooner with the...
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- Post #6
- Sep 12, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Do you use onboard LAN or a seperate NIC

Another vote for onboard, don't bother with the nvidia controller to be honest though. Use the marvell controller on this a8n-sli premium and used the 3com one on my old a7n8x deluxe. Was enticed by the shiney brand names.
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- Post #44
- Sep 12, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computer Issues

You said drives, so this is more than one optical drive? Try checking the jumpers are correct for the master and slave on the ide cable, you know master at end, slave in the middle. If they are already set correctly might want to try each optical drive individually as master on the ide cable...
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- Post #6
- Sep 10, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Need an anser FAST

Not entirely comparable but one of the customer reviews for this notebook with the same gpu seems to reckon it plays cs:s fine: linky
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- Post #7
- Sep 10, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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New HD spinning constantly

I'm guessing you're experienced with master and slave jumpering so the only advice I can really give is to try it in an entirely different machine and see if it works then. It does sound like a DOA drive to me though. Might want to try it directly connected to your motherboard, pulling out the...
- dodgybob
- Post #2
- Sep 10, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Newbie trying to build a new system... HELP!

I wouldn't go with raid 0, if one drive dies all your data dies with it. Perhaps consider a 74gb raptor for a speedy os and games drive and then the 250gb for storage if you want two drives. The 7900gt is 24 pipes whilst the 7800gt is 20 pipes so a 7900gt performs about the same as a 24...
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- Post #3
- Jun 1, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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tg530-U15 PSU reviews?

Take a look at www.hexus.net which is a good UK hardware review site. These psus are quite common and very popular in the UK and tend to be viewed as better than antecs and enermaxs. They had a major review of psus not too long ago, will be in the review/article history. These psus are...
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- Post #2
- May 31, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Memory clock on XFX 7600GT??

It's double pumped, sends signals on the beginning and trailing edge of the clock. So while it's physically running at 800MHz, it's equivalent to 1600MHz in operation. This is the principle behind all DDR memory. 400MHz PC3200 memory for instance actually runs at 200MHz
- dodgybob
- Post #2
- May 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Problem upgrading DDR Memory in an older motherboard...

The board specs indicate its 4x agp. Try reducing the agp speed settings and turn off fast writes etc. to see if that solves it. Possibly look at the psu to see if its under powered during 3d.
- dodgybob
- Post #10
- May 24, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Any motherboards where SATA drive can be C: drive?

If you're installing windows on the sata drive as drive c: with that setup don't forget to put the silicon image sata drivers on a floppy and press f6 when windows asks at the beginning of the installation. Otherwise windows wont detect it. I used to have that board and although not strictly...
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- Post #9
- Apr 15, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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power supply problem s12 600 seasonic

I have an s12-500 which used to power an a7n8x deluxe setup. When I bought an a8n-sli premium and a 3200 venice my s12 started having some of the problems mentioned in this thread. The 1st board was doa (couldn't get to post, just power up with nothing on the screen) and after trying every...
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- Post #62
- Apr 15, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building

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