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It seems to me that I have been chasing the holy grail of performance for many years. Upgrading/rebuilding on average every 18 months or so always in the pursuit of power and speed. Then along comes a technology that makes such a profound difference I simply had to post about it. Obviously many...

Well, as usual I was sucked into early i7 adoption, I couldn't help myself you know how it is! This piggin thing has been the most unstable and flaky setup I've ever had the misfortune to own, only forgiven for it's undoubted speed. It has taken 11 months and the replacement of just about every...

I have a random ethernet connection issue(when the PC has just been started or left idling for some time) it says internet connection unavailable and won't connect. I am running Windows 7 Pro 64bit on a Gigabyte X58 motherboard with onboard Realtek Gigabit lan (8111C chipset) I have tried the...

Had to re-install XP on a dual boot machine (Vista and XP) now I am missing the Vista boot option on startup. I think I know what I've done? re-written the MBR so now the bootloader only see's XP? but can someone walk me through the easiest process (I'm hardware not software so step by step)to...

Seems to be a common problem on all reference design coolers for the 7900GT. The fan is a small 40mm barrel type and the heatsink doesn't even cover the ram sinks. Certain manufacturers have improved on reference design and have come up with solutions that are both quieter and include cooling...

I just bought an Artec T1 DVB terestrial USB2 (Freeview) box. Downloaded and installed the latest drivers. Everything initially works fine, good picture and sound for about a minutes viewing, then lipsync starts to go out followed shortly after by momentary freezing. Weired thing is change...

Has anyone experienced higher temperatures AFTER fitting one of these? Arctic Cooling NV5 rev2 6800 series. I just replaced the noisey stock Asus cooler on my 6800GT(it was driving me nuts) with one of these, I've used the supplied Arctic Cooling paste (I know it's not brilliant) but I was...

Is wasn't until after I used an Aopen Aeulos 6600GT on a recent build and experienced this for myself, did i realise so many others were having similar problems. A steady stutter, at the rate of around 5/6 jumps per second, in game but very noticeable in 3Dbenchmark 2001SE and 2003 nature...

Has anyone had any issues with sound glitches on this setup. I have literally changed everthing (apart from the motherboard) clean installed XP SP2 several times but I'm still getting a random glitch paying music and video. Jetway V600DAP (with Athlon XP2.2) Via KT600 chipset Two differant...

System I'm being asked about. It has a single SATA drive that contains the OS (XP pro) and two roms on Primary IDE (master/Slave) No problems at all until they try to add this 10GB IDE, this is when they get the "missing NTLDR file" press ctrl Alt Delete to restart. Now I have experienced a...

I have a USB1 256mb Flash pen, a fairly cheap branded product but works well on my XPpro Desktop all the same. Thing is I just brought a Toshiba Satalite Laptop running W98 and I've just realized the flash pen won't work without drivers on that OS (the pen didn't come with any) The box has long...

Just wondered if I have stumbled across a common problem and possible RMA or just a bad coincidence. A few months ago I built several customer machines based around Gigabyte KT400 series motherboards. One was my own and had a GA7-VAXP the others were the cut down version of the same moby the...

No problems guys but there just isn't any ryme or reason to when my Nothbridge fan thermally activates!! As I understood it, the Northbridge fan should work when internal temps reach 40C, but the fan will work from cold, sometimes for the first 20-30minutes and then turn off and remain static...

Compaq Presario 7470 K6II/533/E UK OK I'm thick, I admit it. How do I get into bios screen setup. I have tried all the usuals. Cheers. Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

I don't know when it happened exactly but the seperate number pad on the right of the keyboard no longer works, at first I thought it was a driver issue on the Trust Easy Scroll keyboard but after driver updates the number pad still doesn't work, I then changed the keyboard for a differant one...

As a system builder in the UK trying to keep on top of new motherboard releases we brought in the New Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro, Leadtek's Nforce2 chipset offering. I Just wondered if any users had suffered failure of the add on bundled firewire card that fits in this boards ACR slot? We have been...

Putting aside the obvious things like quality of board, brand and speed of the ram used, you would think that all GF4 MX440's would be about the same performance, wouldn't you? Well recently I conducted my own little experiment due to buying these cards in bulk for the shop, with the same...

I just upgraded from a KT266a chipset motherboard, an MSI KT7 ultra to the new KT400 chipset on a gigabyte GA7-VAXP, the reason mostly was because of all the integrated extra's (onboard lan,USB2, Firewire and 8X AGP) and oh yes! maybe a little extra performance in my games. 512mb 2100DDR 2X...

I am building a high end PC with the new MSI KT4 Ultra SR moby, it has USB2 headers for the case's front panel USB ports. My question is I have rang Suntek (the case manufacturer) to ask if there is any differance in the wiring to their front panel USB ports between USB1 or 2. The Lady seemed to...

As of 10/06/02 AMD have released new guidelines for coolers for the new XP Thoroughbred Processor. It seems that the core is 40% smaller than the outgoing Palemino so has a much smaller heat transfer area ,only AMD recommended coolers will validate warranty returns. Coolers must be copper or...