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I'm just wondering if anyone here thinks it's pointless to use high quality speakers to connect to motherboard audio. Since the Realtek ALC1150 is supposed to replace a sound card, I wonder if it's still good enough.

I haven't tested all monitors so I don't pretend to know which is the best but I'm satisfied with the HP 25xi I bought on clearance. So, I'm just giving a heads up that I just saw the new model, the HP 25xw available on amazon. (It's still 1080p though, the standard model isn't 4K yet.) I...

I was looking at the Intel i5-4690S which is 65 watts maximum. I was thinking this is close to the 54 watts of the dual-core models, so why not? I'm not familiar with turbo on CPUs. When you're playing a video game or rendering, does the CPU automatically go up to 3.9GHz?

Several years ago I installed a big heatpipe cooler on a GeForce 8800GS (was either Thermaltake or Thermalright, can't remember) thinking it would be safer in case the fan fails. Now, the card has been bent by the force of the weight of the heatsink. I actually wonder if it will eventually...

I looked at motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and Asrock (both socket 1150 and 1155). Anyway, in the end I found there were at least 3 socket 1150 motherboards that were interesting. This is if you believe that Realtek audio and Intel LAN is more compatible. Also, some other factors were...

It works and everything so I'm hesitant to replace it. However, years ago there were companies like Thermaltake, Thermalright etc. that made heatpipe coolers. They had lists of compatible video cards but now that's no longer the case. So has anyone tried taking off the stock fan while keeping...

I'm going to post a pic here to show the specs on it. Is this really as powerful as the GTX 650? I'm talking about the GT 640 with the GDDR5 RAM.

I bought an Intel E6850 on eBay and just found out later it was an engineer version. It was for an old Asus P5Q motherboard that stayed in a box for years so I decided to build it up. Does anyone think I should take a chance and use it or send it back and get a new one? I wanted to keep it...

CPU-Z says 2800MHz and my BIOS says 2815.2MHz. Is it possible something is downclocking it temporarily? I disbled Cool 'n Quiet and Smart Q Fan due to random crashes. AMD Athlon X2 5400+

I have a SATA Western Digital hard drive (WD3200AAJS), a SATA Pioneer DVD-RW (DVR-115D), an AMD Athlon X2 5400+, Asus 8800GS (384MB), OCZ "Special Ops" RAM 2GB (OCZ2SOE8002GK), BIOS 2701 WinXP Pro SP3 32-bit and I'd like to know about the following (on my Asus M3A78-EM): UMA Frame...

Let's say someone using an Intel E8400 wanted to use the next generation video card (like GTX 650 or whatever), could you still play BF3 or other games fairly well? Or, are you still going to be limited by the CPU?

I'm at a point where my ears seem to be ringing any time I'm exposed to noise and I've had it. I'm thinking of going totally passive. So, I found Seasonic makes a passively cooled power supply, Asus makes a couple of passively cooled video cards and I think I could always use an solid state...

I know this is really going into the world of sillyness. But, I'm wondering if it makes any sense at all to think that maybe a 1066MHz CPU might work better with 1066MHz RAM. The theory of course behind this idea is that a 1333MHz CPU would cause too much order flow and therefore, electrons...

I know you'll all be saying it's not good enough, but I was thinking it would save me from buying a new power supply. But, anyway, to conserve the card longer and have less power consumption and heat, is it possible to underclock to stock speeds? I mean I've looked at some 550 Ti and I think...

I wanted to do another build but can't make up my mind this time. Are there any compelling reasons to go with a case where your PSU is below your motherboard?

I purchased a "BULK OEM" Asus P5Q motherboard on ebay from someone with thousands of positive feedback. When I unpacked it, it looked probably brand new as advertised then looked at the back and it looked like there were some kind of stain. Does this appear as regular fluids used in the...

I tried Quicktime 1080p movie trailers with an HD4670 and socket 939 Athlon 4000+ @ 2.4GHz and there was some audio lag on some videos. I could get my hands on an X2 3800+ @ 2.0GHz. So, does anyone here think it would be worth it or would I be better off getting a Core2 for 1080p? The thing...

8800GS (9600GSO) vs HD4670 OK, I wanted to say first off that the 9600GSO is the same as the 8800GS. However, I read that Nvidia planned on coming out with a 9600GSO that would be less powerful. If you wanted to have an idea how powerful it is, it’s a slightly slower version of the...

I want to know if any of you have had several motherboards with Nvidia chipsets if you can say which ones you found worked the best. I'd prefer no on-board video.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/13/apple-knowledgebase-g92s This suggests that there WAS a problem with the G92 as was documented by Apple. Only thing is, apparently they changed materials at one point. Does anyone know at what point they started introducing the cards...

I noticed Gigabyte has Zalman coolers and was wondering whether they're pretty quiet under load. (I haven't looked for a new video card in a long time.) Also, by doing some searching, I've found some with heatpipes as well. The following models had coolers I found cool: Sparkle Geforce...

I don't know how I came accross it, but I saw something on the OCZ SSD and am almost hot and horny to build a machine using it just to surf the Internet at insane speeds. Has anyone tried that?

I googled and found a very weird review of a Phenom on tomshardware site where they (for reasons I can't fathom) decided to compare a Intel dual core at over 3GHz and compared it to a Phenom of only 2GHz. In any case, I'd like a side by side comparison of real-world benchmarks with the Phenom...

I have a 3Com 3CR858-91 and I find the video on stickam is blurry, or I mean "blocky". Does anyone know what causes this and what the cure is?

I clicked on the cabling link in the FAQ here and the links didn't work. Anyway, I got a 3Com 3CR858-91 router (I read it's compatible with trading software) and noticed it came with a CAT 5 cable. Apparently, this is an older standard. The new one is CAT6 and an even faster one is CAT6a. I...

I don't want people to access personal info on my computer so I don't want to put my real name in the registration in WindowsXP Pro. Would this be a problem?

I mean if we think they might head for bankruptcy? Is Intel going to end the price war? This site says Barcelona might be equal performance. Does that mean they have pricing power or not? http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-First-AMD-K10-Barcelona-Benchmark-Results-are-Out-56597.shtml

Uh, I don't understand the numbers on those. The higher number one is actually older. 94.24 seems like the latest one. But, I had to reset the refresh rate and desktop color from 16 to 32 bit several times after rebooting (on 94.24). So, I installed 96.02. Does anyone else find this is the...

Since I upgraded from a Geforce 6600 (non-GT) to an X1650 XT, I wanted to see what kind of frame rates I would get in Assault. Well, I can still get around 50 or even under 50 fps when the game starts. That's on Holy Crap settings of course. I just realized how CPU dependant the game really...

I'm not sure how that can happen. I was looking around in the BIOS on my Abit NV8 and found that my Samsung Spinpoint SP2514N is master on IDE channel 1 and my LG H22N DVD-RW is master on IDE channel 2. Should I change that? :confused:

I flashed the BIOS on my Abit NV8 from 1.2 to 1.4 and the last section of the last line was all green. The rest was white. From what I understand, the green means the last section was not updated. Does that mean there is a problem? Should I flash again? I played 2 games and my computer is...

I have Kingston HyperX RAM. It's a 2x512MB kit number KHX3200AK2/1G. The timings are 2-3-2-6-1. My machine specs are: Silverstone LC20, Abit NV8, Athlon 3700+ Clawhammer, Zalman 7000 Alcu-LED, 1GB Kingston HyperX, Asus Geforce 6600, Fortron Blue Storm II 500w, Samsung Spinpoint SP2514N, LG...

Uh, does anyone have the brains to figure that out? The timings for my RAM is 2-3-2-5-1T I noted the following... Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Configuration DRAM Timing Selectable Manual -DRAM Clock (DDR400) -CAS Latency Time (2.0) -ROW Cycle Time (11 Clocks) -ROW Refresh Cycle...

me wondering. :o

I guess that's kind of an odd question because I bought one just a while ago. I kind of wanted to know whether my Tripp-Lite Omni VS 1500 is that good or not. Also, is it normal if you hear a slight hum? Mine is a fanless. I thought that would be better in the long run because it wouldn't...

OK, I just installed it today with the orginal driver disc. It says "6.14.0010.6641". So, the jerkyness may be due to an old driver. I see it more when I try to look up and down. I have a Razer Diamonback mouse. I didn't really have that problem with my Geforce 6600. Also, I have the HIS...

Should I RMA this power supply? It seems kind of disturbing. I thought the tolerance was 5%.:eek:

Well, this might sound like a retarded question but it looks to me like the holes on the Abit NV8 are too large for the Zalman 7000 when you take off the black bracket thingy. Should you take it off or keep it on? I haven't really tested it out because I haven't taken the Zalman 7000 out of my...

Am I fast or what? Hahahah! http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070228/20070227006503.html?.v=1

Spank me. I already have an Athlon 3700+ socket 754 but I just turned around and ordered an Athlon 4000+ single core socket 939 from tigerdirect.ca for $115.99 CDN (after rebate). I just couldn't resist. This to me is like a classic CPU because it's single core and like, one of the fastest...