I purchased a new Abit motherboard VI7 and used an older Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 533 FSB and the thing doesn't post. The beeps work and the video card shows up but the whole thing stops at a PENTIUM 4 screen and I cannot go any further than that. Is my CPU fried? I did overclock for a long time before I...

I lost my PC-DL Deluxe. I'm looking to trade my CPU's (2 2.6GHz Xeon mPGA604 533MHz FSB) For a good Socket A 462 MB I only ask for a money order to pay shipping and packaging to safely ship the CPU's. And that you pay the shpping for the MB. Only other thing, 4x SATA, MB need not to be...

What in the world do I do with 4 Mbytes download speed? Get good connections with a hand full, or even all of one bands music, bing, bam boom. It's going to be downloaded almost as fast as just a small handfull of MP3s. Eek! I like it, but it's going to run me right out of hd space. Even though...

But I'm asking anyway. How are dual and quad core CPU's on Overclocking. And does Intel overclock better, or AMD? My Pentium 4 went a good and easy 500MHz before I even needed to think about more vcore. And didn't need much extra to get it further and still on stock cooling. Please don't ask me...

Hi there! Just building a new machine for university.. (will be used for games too!) just want to know if the system set up im thinking of, has any issues. What im thinking... 2500xp barton (about £70 from cpucity) Abit NF7-s (£80 cpucity) TwinMos Pc3200 512mb twin (£70 cpucity) its really dirt...

Hi there my setup is 2.8C p4 running at 3.5Ghz (14*250 dividor at 5:4) in the bios the voltage is set at 1.6250V (on an ic7 max 3) but mbm reports 1.57V to 1.62V and the average being 1.6V. I have no stability problems, but am i askin too much from this antec 330W psu (also driving 4 hard drives)

Hi all, I have a p4 2.4Gh, it will be overcloked to 2.7 soon, all the software that i have to monitor cpu temp doesn´t seem to work well, can anyone tell what´s the best software to monitor cpu temp, thanks in advance.

Alright a couple questions. I'm planning on upgrading a couple pieces of my computer and need some advice since I haven't been keeping up-to-date....RAM, I need a 512MB stick of DDR that can easily do 200FSB, has decent timings, and is reasonably priced (i.e. less than $90 including shipping). ...

Quick question...I know there's a way to do this, because I've seen it before. How do I disable/bypass the Windows XP Activation process? I remember there's a key in the registry that you change, I just do not remember where it's at. Thanks to any future answers.

Im running the following system; AMD xp3200+ Biostar M7NCD (with nForce2 Chipsets- complete with software overclocking available) 768MB DDR PC2700 RAM 120Gig HD Abit 256meg GeForce FX5600 (again software overclocked to 355mhz clock - 420mhz RAM) 300W PSU ect ect- whats next on my upgrade list do...

How do I get the dust of the fins of a Zahlman CPU cooler? Canned air doesn't seem to do it nor does the brush attachment from the vacumn. TIA Jim

Looking for a quiet, maybe water cooled, case for use in a audio edit suite. Been looking at many water cooled cases but not sure how quiet they are. Plan on transplanting a P4c at 3200Mhz, M-Audio sound card, three hard drives, two rom drives and some other stuff into it.

I've been using the same board IC7 since late last year with a P4c 2.6 at 3.2 (250fsb) with XMS memory at 5:4 (200mhz) cl2-2-2-6. I changed the CPU for a P4e 2.8 which I am now running at 3.3 (240fsb) with the same memory at 5:4 (192mhz) cl2-2-2-6. I updated the BIOS from 13 to 24 because of the...

I'm running a P4E 3.0 on an Abit IS7 main board. With the stock HSF the temps were fairly high, in the low 50ºc. Case is very well ventilated, it's a server 'rack mount' unit with a 120mm Panaflow blowing in and across the board as well as an Enermax PSU. I built the machine for some video...

I had a P4c 2.6 at 3200Mhz on an IC7 with WinXP Pro. I LOVED the feature of pressing the Sleep key on the keyboard and having the system immediately shut down then completely come back to where you left off by pressing the power button. It actually worked and I use it all the time. However, I...

Hello, I'm a first time water cooler. I just finished installing a Swiftech H2-8600 (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/h20-8600-0.asp) kit in a Lian-Li PC60 case. I had a Thermalright 900U with a 120mm fan on an Abit IC7 mainboard with a P4e 2.8 at 3.37. Installation went fine. Although ambient...

That's mother of all CPU charts. Actually, mothers. Finally, the unbefuddling truth... http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/cpu_charts-10.html

The bulging capacitors on my Abit BF6 were starting to leak. It was becoming unstable. I cranked it back to default speed. It was painful. What to do? I put $700 worth of new stuff into my basket at Newegg-- and left it to rot! "I think I'm going to Capman, too. I think it's really what I'm...

It seems that the Q9550 prices were not cut along with the E8400 and E8500. They were supposed to drop to the level of the Q9450. Even then, the price is a bit steep for an 8.5 multiplier when compared to the Q6600. Somehow, I lost my Q6600 overclock stability on the Biostar P965. I had to drop...

Arctic Silver has issued new instructions for application of AS5 for Intel dual and quad core CPUs. Who knew? http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_route_step2intelas5.html "Put a very thin line in close proximity to the center of the heatspreader as depicted in red, like the photo at left....