A few weeks ago the boot drive on my secondary system hosed itself. I tried all manner of black magic to get the partition back, but to no avail. Last weekend I pulled the drive and put it in another system to pull the files off. I reformatted the drive, repartitioned the drive and put the files...

Looking for some info ref overclocking a Dell Intel pc...details below. Is there a clockgen available or a replacement BIOS to access the FSB? Processor Intel Pentium 4 Code Name Northwood Brand id 9 Specifations Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.2 Ghz Family F Model 2 Stepping 9 Core Speed 3192 Mhz L1...

i have a P4 2.4C GHz proc. i have TWO 120mm fans also a CPU fan, of course. i wanna overclock 25% to 3.0 GHz. should i try? or will it get too hot? or is 25% tooooo much? lol. TIA for all help.

I am using a new motherboard platform that has an integrated Realtek 10/100MBit interface on it. On my old system I was using a Netgear 10/100MBit NIC which I've had no complaints with. I have both installed in my new system. I was wondering if there's a freeware utility that will allow me to test...

"Andoni Alonso" wrote in message ... does anybody know a professional (good) liquid cooling kit. Exists in rack (19 inch.) size? thanks Swiftech, search the net for it. You should be able to find a good deal on one. I got...

Hi all, Just bought an Athlon 64 3200+ Processor in a Box. It came with the chip and a HSF but no mounting (retention frame) bracket. Is this correct? I checked AMDs site but couldn't find a list of contents? The directions in the box state to install a Retention Frame but don't say if it...

Anyone seen any of these for sale (oem or retail)? Anyone thinking of building 1? Tia

Hi, I am still stuck, can't get my system stable when using some *tight* OCZ PC3200. Prime95 will fail or the machine will reboot. It has been nearly two months now, I already RMA'ed the memory back to OCZ and got a replacement, but sadly my system is unstable. I wanted to overclock this system...

"Timothy Miller" wrote in message ... I recently bought a WD800JB (Western Digital 80GB special edition with 8mb cache), and I'm finding that I'm getting really lousy performance compared to what I see others reporting...

When raising the FSB speed above 200 to O/C a P4-2.4C on an Intel 865PE chipset motherboard, are the AGP and PCI slot speeds (MHz) also affected? I don't think so but could someone confirm this please? Thanks.

I got Celeron 300 on intel SE440BX motherboard. How to speedup it, i'm lame in this subject. Then if its possible ples writ me this step by step. Thanks all for help and sorry for my english :) -- Ygrek http://www.ygrek.netlook.pl gg:2704929

I'm going to be buying a new computer soon and am looking to buy parts that will allow for a lot of overclocking (hopefully). I've been thinking about the Pentium 3.4.(I'm guessing after the new Intel pentium releases on the 21st the price on these should drop enough that I will buy it) My question...

Hey guys... got a dell inspiron laptop. This is the weirdest thing. I'm 'fixing' it for a friend (she got a virus). I wiped the HD clean and reloaded a fresh copy of XP pro... I even loaded suse linux 9.1 just for kicks. It was working perfectly. So I packed it up with the intention of bringing it...

Hello everyone, I'm currently using my trusty ol' Thermaltake Crystal Orb on my Geforce FX 5600. Have it connected to an Enermax fan controller, have full 3000-6000 rpms and temps from Enermax probe shows it between 34-39C (at random looks floats around 35C) Everything is beautiful, no problems...

Okay I had a Lian Li fan cooled case 2 intakes 1 outtake and a 2 fan PSU (counting as 2nd outake) As of now I stepped the FSB to 208 Mhz x 16 for 3328Mhz. Absolutely no difference in idl/load temps sofar (48/55 Celcius) CPU has stock cooling. I want 212 Mhz FSB x16 (locked multiplier) for 3392...

Hi, I have a few problems setting up the system below, any help gratefully taken. SINXP1394 2 x DDR 400 Samsung 512MB (how to check real 400??) ATI 8500 AIW Pro 128MB P4 2.54, 133mhz x 19 (Stock Fan)

Just bought Abit NF7-S and can't get better than 4500 on 3dmarks 03. Used to get 5200 on Asus a7n8x with same video card. The Abit smokes with the raid 0 and 400+ fsb settings but 3d taking a hit here. Anyone having same probs or any suggestions ,,,,,,,,,Mike

**This is a try at your own risk-post** Hi All; I've been using a "Comair-Rotron" "Caravel" 230vac fan running at 115vac for over a month now with no prob. It is practicaly silent, and still moves a lot of air. My sys (A7N8X rev 1.04) is watercooling:

I need some help!! My system is: MotherBoard - Chaintech 6AJM4/G100 , VIA694X+686B CPU - iP3-Celeron 733Mhz RAM - 2x128Mb SDRAM PC133 And the problem is that I can't overclock the CPU. Tryed by hardware... didn't work. With any combination, the screen just remained blank and I had to reset the...

Has any body tried to overclock "Dimension 8300 Desktop" This is what I have: Intel® 875-P chipset/800MHz FSB