Stay clear of www.overclockers.co.uk I recently bought a graphics card from them for over £200, the card is faulty and I have spent over three days now trying to contact them to return it. They don't answer their phones or emails, I passed it on to the disputes dept of my credit card people...

I know you must get these all the time but I was wondering if you could help? I would like to upgrade a little, what amd processor gives the best bang for the buck now? I also need ram and a motherboard, I know this is an overclocking group but mainly just need it for casual gaming. I could also...

Hello -- I am looking for a pair of CoolerMaster E3W-NPTXC-01 heatpipes. I am having trouble sourcing them here in the U.K. Does anyone know of a U.K. retailer that is known to carry them? If these are impossible to get, are there any good alternatives? Thanks for any help, Rohan Beckles

Hi all, something strange has happened with my system..... My ram will no longer boot in dual mode - have checked ram and its fine - windows and cpu-z see the 2 x 512mb in dual slots but saus its in single mode. I have had the cpu tested and have been told the same happened with the...

Hello, All! I will be installing this combination today as a replacement m/b & chip. It replaces an asus a7v8x which I had oc'ed 12% or so, however 1) that was 3 years+ and a lifetime ago and the terminology (reading the manual) for this board is different and the settings many, many more. Could...

What's a good range of idle temps for this chip? I've got a Thermalright SK-6 w/ 5800rpm 60x60x15mm Delta fan, running a P3-S 1.26 @ 1.33 (140FSB). Idle temps are case + 16C (e.g. right now 27C case 43C cpu), and I'm wondering if more airflow will lower this number substantially (system is in a...

What is the best way to install a temperature probe on an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU? Do I simply insert the probe between the heatsink and the processor, or is there another way? I am concerned that this may have an adverse effect on the contact between the CPU and the heatsink; is this true? Thanks in...

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:18:55 GMT, wrote: Problem: Ram Bottleneck?? I have ocd my P4 1.8 northwood to 2.88 (fsb 160.05). MB is Asus P4P800SE I am pleased with the oc numerically, but not the anticipated performance increase which seems to have plateaued since I hit 2.4 (fsb...

Please , i am victim of Cancer ( i am 50 years old ) and i want to do somethink to live but in my work ( computers sales ) the thinks is not so good so for this i want to make small system like PHOTOPLAY TOUCHSCREEN and then rent these machines in a Internet Cafe's to make proffit for my needs So...

2 quick case fan questions: 1) Which of the 5 fans are intake and which are exhaust ?? 2) I want to use filters for the intakes, but I want to keep the cool look of the Blue LED fans. Can I somehow mount the filters on the "inside" ?? From what I have read they are supposed to go on...

Hi all, Well my Enermax is crapping out slowly. Rail voltages are down significantly so..... I put an identical AT case next to it and ran the lines over to just 2 CDRWs and 2 hard drives. Primary case is still running fans/CPU/MB/system. Here's the problem; I run from 8 to 10 15000 RPM drives in...

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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:30:59 +0100, "Grendel" wrote: Hi, As my hard drive has to go back, has anyone got any recommendations for any good, free, disk wiping software? I don't want anyone seeing some of the data that I've got. Thanks,

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Hi, I am looking to squeeze the last possible performance out of my system by replacing the motherboard. I am tryig to delay when i have to replace most of my main components. My current motherboard is an ABit KR7A-RAID motherboard. I have an Athon XP 2600+ proceesor. I have an AGP 8x Geforce...

hi, I've got a Pentium 3 Coppermine socket 370 600E (100 x 6.0) on a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 chipset Apollo pro 133A. Multipliers can be set up by changing jumpers and the FSB can be changed via BIOS.....busses have already a correct setting..... FSB is the only bottle-neck..... But it seems to be...

Hi, even though this question is a little bit off topic I think you guys may be able to help me: I have a P4 that lives inside of a desk cabinet. The cabinet has a venting fan, also the back of the cabinet has a 1'x1' cut-out into the sheet rock wall behind it. When I use BurnMax to throttle up my...

Hello, I own a Compaq Evo N800w laptop that's supposed to run at 2.2GHz but SiSoft Sandra reports 1.196GHz... I'm not familiar with overclocking issues but I thought it would run at nominal speed. According to CPUBench2003: - chipset is P4N Northwood 0.13microns

I need a 800 MHz FSB, socket 478, HT motherboard. I wanted a cheap board that can be overclocked. Was looking at SIS 648FX and SIS 655FX boards and the cheapest one with lockable AGP/PCI speed was the Foxconn...

what do i need or how do i overclock my processor.. i have a dell computer with these cpu specs: p4 northwood 2.0 ghz 100 fsb 400 bus speed 512 l2 cache