Recent content by bigboss

Hi, I seem to have a problem with my motherboard. It seems as if the PCI-E 2.0 slot has been throttled down to x1 instead of x16. I first noticed this by poor Windows Experience Index scores and slow FPS. At first I thought it was the graphics card, so I tested my old 8800GT, which seemed to be...

I've recenty bought a Palit GTX275, I installed it and updated my windows experience index. I know those scores mean nothing but it did give me my first indication that something was up. Note for all of the tests below the games were ran at 1280x1024 at full settings, I also have the latest...

I'm looking to upgrade my two year old rig, I like to keep up with the releases, and when the GTX275 was released and turned out to be okay, I was almost convinced. I found the Palit GTX275 and was all about ready to buy it. After scanning around scan I found the ASUS GTX285 and now I'm stuck...

Hey, I know Penitum 4's are old. I managed to find out that my computer from about 2 year ago can overclock. Messing round with the settings I've managed to get up to 3.28Ghz stable. Ran Prime95 and it seemed to have no errors, my main question is what is the maxamium safe load temperature for...

Hey, I'm new to the whole overclocking scene. After buying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky and seeing my rig struggle to get 15FPS outside in DirectX10 mode I decided it was time to OC. I have had some past experience with overclocking processors, but a GPU is a lot different. I read upon the...