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I have been offered an abit IP35 Pro Off Limits for £55 second hand is this a good deal or do you know a better one? Is the abit a good board or should i be looking at an Asus P5k? Or is there another board i should be looking out for? Thanks for any replies in advance, Dave.

I have a Gigabyte GA-P35c-DS3R and i am having tons of problems. Firstly it will not post when cold booted. The fans come on but it does not post. If i leave it with the fans running for a couple of minutes (let it warm up) then hit the reset button it will boot. This has been going on for a...

I have a Corsair HX520 and an Enermax Galaxy 850w power supply. I love the Galaxy but the noise from the rear 80mm fan is doing my head in. I want to get a 700w+ supply but it needs to be as quiet as the corsair. What do you recommend? Thanks, Dave.

I received my replacement Enermax EGX850EWL today that was exchanged for my EGA850EWL. The fans on the original supply were noisy to the point to being annoying. How noisy is the EGX850EWL is it the same as the EGA850EWL or was i just unlucky have a noisy supply in the first place? I am only...

O.K. With the help of Aqua-PCs (thanks again for the vrm cooler) and members of this other forums i am ready to start my rebuild. I could do with some advice on my loop though. Should i go the shortest neatest route or put in a couple of extra feet of tube so i can get the pa120.2 in the loop...

OK i am having a bad day... I need some thermal pads to refit my original cooler onto my 8800GTS card or someone to swap my full EK cooling block for the 8800GTX for a GTS one. I didn’t know what Forum title to put this under, but decided i will put it under liquid cooling as that is what i...

I have a XSPC Pump Top and want to fit 2 UV led’s to it. I have seen them on ebay for sale with different resistors If there a guide somewhere how to make these up? Question no2 I am waiting for a EK block to arrive for my 8800gtx i have got these pads from the shop LINK and i presume paste...

At the moment I have only a CPU block on my loop the loop consists of Eheim pump - ThermoChill PA120.1 rad –Swiftec 120.2 rad – Aqua computer CPU block – 250mm reservoir - pump. I have just purchased a Laing DDC-1T Ultra with XSPC Top and a NB block for my NB. I plan to fit as; pump -...

I have just fitted a Q6600 I had it running 1.35v @3600MHz the only thing was on boot i got an error and had to press F1 to continue(Asus Commando). I googled the problem and i needed a new bios update. I updated to the latest bios but since then i have to up the v a notch on the CPU and windows...

I have been looking for a new graphics card for a while now. My budget was origanaly £50-£60ish for a second hand one. The thing is i use the 32” TV as a monitor so i’m not sure what i will need, Will the 512mb be better than the 256mb? At the moment i have seen 2 cards that sound...

Well this is my first attempt. Everything i have learnt/done is from this and associated sites. Specs are; Thermaltake Kandalf case Asus Commando motherboard Intel C2D E6420 2 gig Geil Ultra DDR2 C drive 2X36gb raptors (rail0) Sapphire X1950pro 512mb PCI-E VGA Card OCZ ram cooler...

I am now ready to start building my system and unsure on which loop to use. The first photo is using only a double rad in the front which will as i only intend to cool the CPU for now is more than adequate. But with the pump I’m using the flow out pipe has a big loop in it and as i have a spare...

I just received my Swiftech MCR220QP 2 x 120mm Radiator today from Specialtech (very quick delivery by the way)and was surprised that the barbs i ordered do not fit?? The diameter of the barb screw holes on the rad are about 5/8” So the standard EK 1/2" High Flow Barb i ordered fall into the...

I am going to build my first water cooling rig. I am nearly ready to start water cooling only a couple of things left to get (main one being my Asus Commando from RMA). Please see the list and let me know if everything is covered. I have; CPU block Aqua Computer Cuplex XT DI 775 Eheim...

Where is the best place to buy ½” barbs and collect in South Manchester? I had a package delivered from Watercooling Uk (very fast delivery lads) with everything i had ordered, but i didn’t realise when ordering the barbs come individually. I just presumed they were in pairs. Now i am a pair of...