Recent content by clive r

Does everyone know about this? A few years back someone stole the formula for the electrolyte used in a certain type of capacitor but forgot to include one of the ingredients. Taiwanese factories have since turned out millions of these faulty components, which inevitably fail rapidly in use...

I've just put together a new system based around an Abit AT8 board, and spent a good few hours on an install the other night. All was going well, and I was gawping at Oblivion when I decided to try a small overclock using the Abit utility. I gave it 10%, it rebooted, and.. ... :eek...

I got this game yesterday, and was hoping to put a proper review here, but i'm just speechless! This is truly a next generation game. Remember when you got Far Cry? This takes things to the next level, it's huge and seamless and achingly beautiful. I've never been a huge rpg fan, it's often...

I decided it was about time I did an upgrade (end of the tax year) so I bit the bullet and got myself an Opteron 146 today. I'll run it at stock speed for work, but I also have a games partition and plan a moderate overclock for this. I've got an Abit AN Ultra board on order, which looks...

Have just been reading about this here and here and the problems some people are experiencing with yet another copy protection nightmare. Thankfully I don't seem to have this installed, but it seems many have and had no idea why their dvd burner stopped working. When will they learn we...

I just had a good look round the back of my pc and OMG. It just seems to keep on growing and I keep meaning to sort it out but where to start? :( I've tried to keep the vga cables away from the power, and the phone line separate, at least that was the idea, but you know how it is. You're...

Anyone had any experience overclocking the plain vanilla 6600? I need a new vga card that stays nice and cool at stock speed for regular use, but which will improve on my 9600 pro when oc'd. I was looking at the Gigabyte Silentpipe 256, and I see Gigabyte claim their version is faster. Any...

Hi all Just signed up and posted my rig. I'm actually a silent PC enthusiast, so I probably don't envy the systems of most of you here. I do have a few games on a dedicated Win98 partition. and since installing Farcry it's looking a bit sad. Maybe it's time to overclock that cpu a bit. This...