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by Kingtal0n
Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:46 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

Re: New motherboard recommendation thread

I would buy this case instead. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139010 As far as power supplies go, I would buy this one instead. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139012 Just to let you know these CPU's are made for overclocking. You don't have to go ...
by Kingtal0n
Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:38 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

Re: New motherboard recommendation thread

Case (girl build): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811144204 500GB HDD storage: HITACHI 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" -Bare Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145299 Intel SSD boot: Intel 320 Series 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC http://www.neweg...
by Kingtal0n
Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:00 am
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

Re: New motherboard recommendation thread

I would buy your second pick. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDeal ... mbo.763310 I've been reading ALOT about that board, and it seems many people find it's performance and overclocking ability to be the major attractive quality. Do you really feel its worth the additional dollars to buy this b...
by Kingtal0n
Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:51 am
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

Re: New motherboard recommendation thread

When you say copying videos does that mean ripping from DVD etc or just storing videos or is it a video recording system? She will be downloading videos from the internet, HD quality (.ts) files, storing them to various external drives, and using "convertX" and "Tipard" to burn....
by Kingtal0n
Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:51 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

Re: New motherboard recommendation thread

I would go with this cpu. Intel Core i5-2500 Sandy Bridge http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115073 How does that sound? the price is good, and I appreciate the suggestion, I am curious what about this particular CPU is reliable and makes it stand out as an obvious choice? I w...
by Kingtal0n
Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:50 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

Re: New motherboard recommendation thread

Your asking a lot. Why don't you pick out a cpu and we can go from there. How about this cpu Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116492 Can we start from there? I forgot to mention its not going to be a high performance machine. I'd li...
by Kingtal0n
Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:53 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
Replies: 15
Views: 8578

New motherboard recommendation thread

I am assembling a computer and I would like your recommendation. Stability and reliability are the two pre-reqs, I am looking for the most common predictable board, with no extras, no overclocking, nothing fancy just good old fashioned day to day service life. The computer will be mainly used to dow...
by Kingtal0n
Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:54 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

I was able to get the temps DOWN on the Mother board's chipset by setting the DRAM timing to (5-5-5-18 @ 1.8v). But games STILL close randomly, unexpectedly without warning. Even though now I can touch the chips (any chip) while the application is running and- although fairly hot, it is not nearly a...
by Kingtal0n
Sun Nov 13, 2011 5:20 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

Check this out: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2176/crashed.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us Utilizing this event log I notice a few things: The motherboard temperature appears to be PEGGED at 152*F. Indeed there is a chip on the motherboard that is so hot I can not touch it. I feel the system inst...
by Kingtal0n
Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:53 am
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

I got a bid on one of these: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemNext&item=250925936008&pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&autorefresh=true Ive only purchased one PCI express video card in my life. I thought I could count on this Nvidia Geforce card for life, Ive never had this kind of troub...
by Kingtal0n
Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:40 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

Major_A wrote:Any idea what power supply you have in there?
yes, my psu is CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 520W
I am running all SATA devices, a single HDD and two DVD-RW drives, and three case fans.
thank you
by Kingtal0n
Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:33 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

Well, I finally got access to the bios on the video card somehow- dont ask me how, good god just dont. The control panel from Nvidia does not work, it tells me "The changes made are invalid and will not be applied" every time I try to save a new fan setting or lower the clock speed. Someho...
by Kingtal0n
Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:06 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

Well guys, I am having a heck of a time now. Heres whats transpired so far: I downloaded the latest video drivers and the install went well. But they do not allow me to access my GPU temperature or any voltage utilities or anything like that at all. . And whats even more painful is the old drivers f...
by Kingtal0n
Sat Nov 12, 2011 3:59 pm
Forum: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tegra Forum
Topic: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
Replies: 11
Views: 7164

Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS

Hello, Please help me diagnose a problem! The symptom is: after about 30 minutes of playing a game (Starcraft 2, Morrowind, Battlefield 2) Any game with decent graphics, It will exit without warning. there is no crash diaglog, no error message, no clue as to what happened- It just closes as if the u...
by Kingtal0n
Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:28 am
Forum: All About The Games
Topic: Gamers... Help me PICK A MONITOR (20" / 22" LCD) !!!!
Replies: 9
Views: 4435

Gamers... Help me PICK A MONITOR (20" / 22" LCD) !!!!

My friend JUST bought a new video card and it DOESNT SUPPORT the 1440x900 Resolution for his 19" Widescreen monitor. That means, I guess, he needs to buy a monitor with the resolution that is supported by the adapter (video card) RIGHT?! (Is there any way I can add 1440x900 as a resolution to t...
by Kingtal0n
Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:45 am
Forum: Operating Systems
Topic: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!
Replies: 6
Views: 5056

Re: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!

Oh, you are saying boot from the Vista CD and install/restore from there? Will I have to download all the device drivers for the computer from Dell? probably.
by Kingtal0n
Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:18 pm
Forum: Operating Systems
Topic: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!
Replies: 6
Views: 5056

Re: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!

thanks, I have a DELL here, NO RESTORE CD's. I was hoping to install windows vista upgrade on it and do a clean install, will that give me the option to format the HD and get vista on the DELL thereby negating need for the resto CDS?
by Kingtal0n
Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:36 am
Forum: Operating Systems
Topic: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!
Replies: 6
Views: 5056

Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!

WHen you buy vista (upgrade) In the green package what version comes inside? I hear people say there is an "old buggy version" and a "new updated version" If you have a computer with the ancient vista do you need to buy vista again in the store to get the upgraded version? I was ...
by Kingtal0n
Mon May 14, 2007 1:38 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: Help me Image my drive, Boot from an external, and backup st
Replies: 3
Views: 2190

heres an update I bought ACRONIS HOME which can make a single file that is a copy of the hard drive, and store it onto my external drive. That seems like a good idea. I cut the external up into 3 partitions and am going to put the backup files on each one. from there I suppose ill just make a bootab...
by Kingtal0n
Mon May 14, 2007 1:36 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: Help me Image my drive, Boot from an external, and backup st
Replies: 3
Views: 2190

Thats true, So if I wanted to boot off it, I could use maybe the SATA cable, It has SATA support. So lets say I just put 1 OS on it, Windows XP. Just to boot, using SATA if I have to, of course. but laptops dont have SATA so ugh. Well lets focus on data restoration. Norton ghost can image a drive, o...