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Could anyone shed some light on my EK supreme CPU water block? I am doing a (long overdue) rebuild on my PC and I've removed all the watercooling components with a mind of flushing them through to remove any deposits etc. When trying to flush through the CPU block I'm finding that the flow...

My loop recently developed a leak so after a lot of cursing I drained it to find a hairline crack in the pump plexi top where the fluid was seeping out from. I'm using the Feser UV blue fluid which on the bottle claims is non conductive although what prompted me to check the internals was the...

Think I may have to RMA my 8800GT as it is doing this fairly often: Typically it has been doing it while under load although last night it started doing it when I was playing around with some imagery in GIMP. Is it possible that this is just a driver issue? I'm running forceware 169.12. I...

Guys, Most of my LCS stuff arrived today and I'm having a headache trying to find a place to mount the rad. Ideally I want it inside the case and think the best position for it is as follows: Only problem being there is nothing I can mount it onto. Will I have to fabricate a bracket of some...

I have had a lot of different experiences with Couriers, bad and good and I would like to share them with you in case anyone has had any similar... Initial City Link - Seems their drivers need to attend a training weekend on how to push a doorbell. On three seperate occassions now I have been...

My MSI K9A2 arrived today and I have a sinking feeling that I have overlooked something... It came with two Crossfire bridges and this made me wonder if the board is compatable with Nvidia SLI cards. I can't find anywhere that explicitly states it isn't, although I can't find anywhere that...

OK so I've ordered all the bits for The Duke's build and should be arriving hopefully tomorrow or sometime in the week, minus the bits that are on backorder. Totally stoked as I haven't upgraded in ages and this will be a complete new build woop :D Anyway, the spec... CPU: AMD 64 X2 6400+...

When it comes to cooling the chipset on a motherboard there are many blocks readily available that fit directly on after removing the stock heat dissipator. My question is what can you do when you have a set up like on my board as shown below: In an idea world I'd like a block that fits into...

Was about to take the plunge and buy a Q6600 based rig, although I'm very VERY torn between the Duos and the brand new Phenoms. I know it's an age old question that can spark a lot of flaming and generally is down to personal preference, but talking facts, which of the chips is likely to perform...

With a limited budget, and a lack of experience with LCS, would I be better off buying a case with pre-installed LCS or buying the components myself? I can imagine that the former would be more cost effective (though I wouldn't know a good component from a bad one so its a possibility I could...

I might be selling my current PC to my parents to replace their crappy one, although I don't want to rip them off and likewise I don't want to cut my own throat I really have no idea what the value retention of second hand pc goods is so if you would be so kind I need some idea of how much I...

Does anyone know why 1394 PCI cards that work on XP, don't work on Vista? It seems a bit silly to me that they don't, and it also seems that nowhere sells ones that are explicitly 'Vista compatable'.

If you haven't tried out this new service then do so now. You won't be disappointed! Basicly it's a method of streaming your media content (music, videos, films, files) over a network in a user friendly, idiot proof, web based GUI that mimics Winamp 5.5. I.e. I am a student in Cardiff and went...

Built up this system for my housemate who wanted some beef for close to £500 Spec: ASUS P5B Socket 775 Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 PCI-E Black/Silver Wizard Budget Case Vista...

Guys, Hoping to build this spec up in the near future, my budget is around a grand, preferably less! AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+ Socket AM2 Black Edition 3.20GHz ASUS Crosshair SKT AM2 nForce 590 SLI DDR2 SATA 8 channel audio ATX OCZ 2Gb PC2-6400 DDR2-800 4-4-4-15 OEM Nvidia 8800GTX...