Chalky wrote: Can anyone tell me if the Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound really performs better than the standard Silicone Compound that came with my Arctic Cooling VGA silencer? I want to overclock my 9700pro. G Artic Silver vs. The Others has been discussed ad infinitum on this...

does anyone know of a site showing comparisons for the various SATA disks on the market? specifically, i'm looking for the quietest 80-120GB model. obvously, good performance would be a bonus tia

I Have a FX 5200 128MB not an ultra although it probably could be with the extra power adaptor on board the huge sandwich HS and fan. I am just wondering are the leadtek GeForce 4Ti4200 that i have and the FX 5200 almost equal or very similar or are they good and bad in respect to office apps and...

Is this CPU any good for overclocking?

What's the maximum temperature a P4 2.53Ghz @ 2.96 can reach without compromising stability and performance?

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Are AMD ever going to increase the small contact area at the heatsink side of the processor so that we can atleast get the processors down to a 25 'C **** i have a AMD XP2800+ 2250Mhz at idle 33'C and a P4 Northwood 2.8 2800Mhz running OC to 3200Mhz @ 29.5 give and take a point.

Hi! I got this message as an error a few times while playing UT2004. What does it mean?? Many thanks!!! UT2004 Build UT2004_Build_ OS: Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)

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Who, & where can I get more of this stuff. It's cheap, but works good. Mine, PC2100 Running @ a speed of 165.6 And gives me 4.5 GB/s Thanks Denny. :-) Always with a smile, even if times are bad. (Or a cable - new blackout.)

Having read this months PCF and it has an article on how to upgrade the fx5900 to a 5950 via a BIOS upgrade. This works on standard 5900's but would it work on 5900XT's although the prices are very similar so would I be better buying the older standard card or the newer slower card and...

Hello, Any suggestions on a good overclocking motherboard for a P4C 2.4GHz CPU. I am looking at the Asus P4C800 Deluxe board or Gigabyte GA-8KNXP. Regards, Shane

you could try a straight boot at 133MHz fsb to yield 1.2Ghz clock speed. if it won't boot, you could try upping the voltage a little at a time (increments of 0.05V) until it POSTs. don't go above ~1.9V, as the extra signal strength gets muddied by extra heat produced at this voltage...

Hi all, I have a P4 2.6c overclocked to 3.00GHz with temperatures of 33c idle and around 45-48c full load. My memory is Corsair Value Select PC3200, extra detials on memory below: Freq: 184.8MHz FSB:DRAM: 5:4 CAS# Latency 2.5Clocks RAS# to CAS# Delay: 4Clocks

Hi Troops, I was just about set on the ABIT IC7-Max3 when I discovered (rather late) that there were no serial or parallel ports and no support for Motherboard Monitor 5. I suppose I could use USB to parallel/serial adapters for my HP4 Laser printer and my US Robotics external modem but I'd rather...

Hi, I made a post a day or two ago about my efforts to get my T-Bred 2400+ running on a 200Mhz-FSB. I was originally trying to raise the FSB *without* overclocking the CPU (10x200=2GHz), but basically the AN7 wouldn't boot. Today I had a bit more time to play and tried 11x200 (2.2GHz) and...

Whats, according to you, the temparature the CPU shud never reach not to compromise performance but, above all, stability?

The clock rate is nearly the same ? Can you explain why a Barton is faster just for us idiots, i have an Xp 2400 266mhz and just want a PC that will do me for more than a fews years and the Barton 3200 seems to be it. Some websites with real world comparsins of CPUs would be great like to see...

Hi, I'm trying to *fully* understand how this voltage thing works for AGP graphics card. AGP 1x-2x = 3.3v AGP 4x = 1.5v AGP8x = 0.8v I have yet to see any AGP 8x card that gives *evidence* that its using 0.8v.

I have a ATI AIW 9800 PRO on a ASUS K8V Deluxe, and here is the problem. The motherboard says that it will support videocards 1.5V only with P/N XXXXX-XXXX-30 or later mine is XXXXX-XXXXX-12. On the video card box, it says that 4x agp runns at 1.5 V, 8X agp is 0.8V. Does that mean I can't run my...