Discuss the benefits of AMD, Intel or any other platforms
Hi there. The old PC I use for audio recording is dying so I'm planning my first attempt at building a DAW PC. I already have an audio card, graphics card, drives, etc. so just need mobo, CPU and DDR2 memory. I'd prefer Intel to AMD to ensure compatability (I have some quirky software). My...
Hi I am building a new desktop computer for high end gaming. I am looking at the Intel Core i5 processors but I am a bit confussed. Is the 650 better than then 760 because it has 3.2Ghz instead of a 2.8Ghz, but is a dual core instead of a quad core. Do you also have to buy a compatible...
Hi, everyone. I have an Acer Aspire T180, which has this board. My current CPU is a Sempron 3500+, and I wanted to upgrade it with an Athlon X2 5000+. The CPU arrived this morning, but no matter what I try, it will not work. I get no POST or beeps from the system. I'm running the latest...
I noticed that in CPU-Z and and on startup that my memory (XMS3 2x2GB) is running in dual channel, as expected, but it's also running in unganged mode. I've been looking around the web at unganged vs ganged memory and it seems that unganged uses 2 64 bit buses and ganged uses 1 128 bit bus, but...
Ok I will try explain best I can. For the past week or so everytime I turn the computer on it stops during bootup and I get several errors, most of them featuring the word CMOS, or CMOS settings could not be loaded, defaults loaded or something along these lines. I would also get an error where...
Hi Ive been into the bios and in the Advanced tab and in the JumperFree Configuration tab there another tab called AI Tuning. Ive set that to AI OverClock and set it to 5% first and everything was fine and then set it to 10% and still fine and can tell alot of difference Ive not gone past the 10%...
Purchased this board last week and every so often the speakers give off a pop sound (energy surge) and then i notice that only my 2 front speakers are working and not the full 5.1 i had originally. To turn them back on again i need to enter the audio software and switch from 6 speaker to...
At the moment i have a ASUS P5N-E SLI mother board. Im looking at my manual now of the mother board layout. It has a Nvidia nForce 650i Sli and a NVIDIA nForce 430i. Are they the processor same thing like an I7 processor but mine been alot slower obviously. Ive never updated these apart from the...
I am looking to spend around £200 to upgrade my system which i use mainly for gaming. I need a new motherboard CPU and RAM I am totally lost in all of the options available Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Hi my mother board is a Asus P5N-SLI and i use to have a update utility cd but lost it. Is there any way i can download an update to get it again thanks. This is what it use to look like http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?no=714 but dont no which to...
I have an Abit motherboard in my desktop computer and use the sound from the motherboard. Last week I picked up a virus and had to reload my windows and start all over but cannot get the sound to work has anyone got any ideas PLEASE
Just recently had to reinstall win 7. Its poping up saying consider upgradeing your motherboards bios. Been to Nvidias website but the links don't work for my motherboard there just dead. Did a search on google but only found one that was updated 2007. Any ideas what i should do or is it not...
Im building a Gaming PC and trying to keep the price down, but i have had two different motherboards recommended to me they are.... Gigabyte GA-890GPA 890GX and Asus M4A87TD Now the Asus is around £20 cheaper than the Gigabyte board, i was just wondering if that the extra 20 for the...
hi all im very new to this but i need some advice i dont even know if im in the right place but anyway my pc is a few years old and i built it myself with the help ov a friend and for some reason now its started to freeze on me and i dont no y can anyone give me some ideas
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20100722/ttc-dell-warns-of-malware-infected-serve-6315470.html Not good, especially as they were server boards that could have been processing all sorts of sensitive/secret information.
Hi there I have a friend with what appears to be a dead motherboard. Model is an MSI G33M, aka MS-7357. Details: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/microatx-boards-job,1657-7.html and http://us.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=1184
can i use 1066 Mhz on my 667Mhz pc
Some sneak pics of the P55A Fuzion. There are 2 new boards coming, both the 870A Fuzion (AMD) and the P55A Fuzion (Intel). These boards, much like the Big Bang Fuzion offer the flexibility to use whatever graphics set-up you require. Sneak peaks below, comments and questions welcome ...
memory and the MSI 770 AM3 mboard the computer wont load on 1333 mhz i have to bump it down a notch for it not to hang on the win7 loading screen is there any special setting the ram needs to be on ive just got it all on auto atm minus the slower frequency or it wont boot thanks so much...
Hello, I am chasing a bit of advice here. I arent bad with pc's, have built many over the years, but find myself somewhat unable to make a decision here, regarding a motherboard. I have just oredered a phenom II z965 cpu from ccl. I meant to order a motherboard at the same time, but deferred doing...
Hi all, Can anyone confirm if this would be a viable fit... Mother board - Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Socket 1156 - Link http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?id=39322 CPU -Intel Core i7-860 Quad Core skt 1156 - Link http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?id=35814 Cooler - Titan Fenrir...
Windows XP says it's 2900mhz in system information, the bios says it's 2.90 as well. However Ubuntu's cpufreq says it's running at 800mhz. CPU-Z says both cores are running at 800mhz. PC Wizard - Frequency : 2900 MHz - (current : 800.79 MHz)
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=34153&category_id=709&manufacturer_id=0&tid=ga-ma770-ud3# They have made 3 dif ver of the board im trying to find out what ver it is before decide if to buy or not the ver released are rev. 1.0 rev. 2.0 rev. 2.1
My current motherboard has decided to die on me finally, so i've been looking into a new one, however i'm abit stumped on what to get. I currently have an AMD2 x2 5050e processor with a GeForce 9600 GT 516mb and 4 GB dual channel DDR2 ram The 2 motherboards i've been looking at are ...
We have prepared a new guide for 2010. Enjoy! http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87341 http://forum.corsair.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=6938&stc=1&d=1275030603
hi guys im thinking of purchasing a 1 x 2gb kingston hyper x ram to go along with the 2 x 1gb ram i already have, but i was wondering how will this 2gb stick perform with the 2 x 1gb i already have as they are in a dual channel set up and this 1 x 2gb stick will be in a single channel setup ? ...
I have just purchased 4gb of DDr3 1600 but the AsRock motherboard doesn't set it to DDR 3 1600, the Motherboard is supposed to run this speed of memory, but how and which settings for the memory do I need to input manually, the only one I am sure of is setting it to 1600 Memory, but how and what do...
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=3478&category_id=763&manufacturer_id=0&tid=vs1gb533d2 My PC: Compaq Presario SR5219UK
hi I see that the new unlocked i7-870 CPU called the i7-875K is listed elseware in the uk as preorder for only £297.30 for the OEM version which is much less than around £500 for the locked i7-870. With it and the forthcoming i7-880 Im hoping the i7-870 and i7-860 wil become more affordable. ...
I found this rather interesting story over on Hexus. http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24486 Regardless of what I think of Intel x86 instructions on a phone would be awesome :)
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