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- Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:46 pm
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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 ...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:38 pm
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:00 am
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:51 am
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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....
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:51 pm
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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...
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:50 pm
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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...
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:53 pm
- Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
- Topic: New motherboard recommendation thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8703
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...
- 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: 7225
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...
- 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: 7225
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...
- 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: 7225
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...
- 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: 7225
Re: Help me Geforce 7600, Game trouble AMD/ASUS
yes, my psu is CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 520WMajor_A wrote:Any idea what power supply you have in there?
I am running all SATA devices, a single HDD and two DVD-RW drives, and three case fans.
thank you
- 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: 7225
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...
- 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: 7225
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...
- 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: 7225
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...
- 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: 4494
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...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:45 am
- Forum: Operating Systems
- Topic: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5087
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.
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:18 pm
- Forum: Operating Systems
- Topic: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5087
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?
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:36 am
- Forum: Operating Systems
- Topic: Operating system XP -> Vista upgrade questions here!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5087
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 ...
- 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: 2203
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...
- 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: 2203
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...