Recent content by Barkerd

Guys, Just installed a Kentfield CPU in an Asus P5WDH with an arctic cooler 7 pro air cooler just to run as a stop gap before putting under phase in a couple of weeks hopefully. This cooler only has a 92mm fan running at 1000rpm but I was staggered to see in the BIOS the idle temp was 63degC:O...

I am interested in this one too as I got rid of my AQZ pumps for the same reason. Hoping the Laing D5 I plan to buy shortly will be better but any advice of keeping pumps quiet would be welcome guys ... There might not be an antivibe kit but maybe someone has come up with a way of quieting down...

Guys, Seen a few opterons in the classifieds recently quoted stable at around 3Ghz which seems mightly impressive for a £100 - £150 cpu. Hence was wondering what performance benefits an FX55/57 would have over one of these mighty little chips? Is it purely the flexibilty of the unlocked...

After having just got my Mach II GT back from repair by ECT in Denmark, I was awoken this morning at 5am with the Mach's compressor starting up then shutting down immediately over and over again:O I was asleep so was really confused what was happening, so after a minute or so I got out of bed...

A number of you have had r507 upgrades and others have bought Chilly1's ... can you post what ur findings were? For example, What improvements in your idle and load cpu temperatures after the upgrades and how much improvement in overclock u got as a result ... Cheers:)

Just wanted to give a thumbs up to this new Cricial Ballistix 2 x 1GB Z503 RAM I just bought. On the DFI Ultra-D this pair are memtest 5 and 8 error free for about 5 hours at 288Mhz 3-3-3-8 @2.8v at which point I stopped the test. I was only expecting 250 - 260 so a nice surprise for a 2GB kit...

Guys, need a bit of help on the behaviour of DFI mobos .. I have my first DFI Ultra-D and an AMD X2 and after the initial windows splash screen comes up I get a "Windows is starting up" screen which it sits at for a long time. I checked the system event log and the TCPIP driver is taking 75...

Guys, Need some advice for Smokie ... he installed my ex-GT yesterday and had everything working fine, however, after trying to connect the USB to his mobo tonight the GT now reaches 45 - 49degrees and does not make it to -50 to allow the PC to boot. It looks like connecting the USB wrongly...

Firstly a big thanks to Phil for my new Baker Extreme and another big thanks to Thickbrit for modding my my new P4c800E and x800xtpe, very professional and switchable too :) Now with all this great stuff I need some help on how to install the baker head onto the mobo, a picture might help ...

Guys, Has anyone here ever put a fan in front of the rad on their Mach II in a push pull configuration to get more air thru their prom? Any thoughts on .. 1. What difference it would make - noise versus performance? 2. How to wire it up, e.g. splice into wires on the other front fan, and...

Does anyone know whether the barbs on a DD or Innovatek 6800 waterblock can be angled to allow two cards to be watercooled in an SLI setup? It looks from the pictures that 6800 waterblocks have barbs facing straight up meaning in SLI mode the lower card tubing would run straight into the barb...

Guys, Please help if you can with some wiring advise ... the decription below is based on me looking at the inside of the Mach II base with the front cover on my left and the back panel on my right. I am trying to help a mate with his newly aquired Mach II with two wires that have come loose...

Initial problem: After running a Prescott at 4.5GHz for nearly 9 months without a glitch I starting gettting a problem where Windows would hang. After powering off the PSU the system would not boot normally for 30 mins or so? Within 5 minutes of restart the same would happen again:( To try...