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My newly installed E6600 CPU is idling at roughly 48 degrees celsius. This is at stock speeds and with the standard retail cooling. I'm guessing this is a little hot, or is this about right for stock cooling? Everest is reporting that Core1 is at 37c, and Core2 is at 36c, with the CPU temp at...

After adding the Accelero X2 cooler to my X1900XT last night, everything was running fine. Life was good... I came home from work tonight to find my PC won't boot at all! In safe mode, I can see that it's getting stuck at the crcdisk.sys stage. Iirc my PC has also hung at the boot stage, when...

I've received my OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel memory this morning but, after reading a number of posts, I starting to think I've wasted my money. I must admit to being a little confused about the arguments for and against the various DDR2 speeds, but the bootom line appears...

Is my trusty Enermax Liberty 500w PSU powerful enough to power this kit: Antec Nine Hundred Case Intel E6600 CPU 2Gb OCZ SLI (1066) DDR2 RAM EVGA NF680i Motherboard Sapphire ATI X1900XT 512Mb Video Card Soundblaster X-Fi Sound Card 2 x SATA HD 1 x Sony DVD+RW (Dual Layer) I can't really...

I'm looking to replace my aging Audigy 2 sound card, but the sound card industry doesn't appear to have moved on much. I'm not even sure it's worth me upgrading tbh. Would on-board HiDef 7.1 surround sound be as good as a dedicated sound card? I'm looking at the EVGA 680 board. What's a good...

What this "Reputation" thing against each user profile? Should I be leaving reputation for people who help me? Is that what it's intended for? I did a quick forum search for it (I don't want to repeat already asked questions), but I couldn't see anything.

I appreciate this is probably a *really* stupid question, but should I expect to encounter any problems if I were to run my ATI X1900XT on the EVGA NF680i SLi motherboard? I don't need to have an nVidia card to get the best out of this board, do I? I'm looking at pairing the NF680i with 2Gb of...

Has anyone purchased this case? Is it a relatively quiet case? I leave my PC on most nights, and the missus will moan if it's generating too much noise. Is this a good, cool case?

My Sapphire X1900XT 512Mb idles at ~70 degress but has topped 100 degress when pushed (such as the new C&C3 demo). I suspect this is running way too hot? Is it worth me replacing the stock cooler? Thanks in advance.

I'm Daze, a 35 year old C# developer. I'm currently looking to build myself a new PC based on an Intel E6600. I'm hoping that, with the help of these boards, I can build a pretty decent machine.