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Hey guys, long time no talk. Pretty much want to throw together a mini-itx build that will mount onto my monitors VESA mount for LAN use. This being a lan rig, max game performance isnt an issue. Best I can come up with so far; AMD 3870K OC'd to 3.6(this will bump the gpu to ~960mhz) 8gb of...

Hey guys, putting my loop together next week after my rad arrives (hopefully) I have 2 pump/res options, both of which I own Have a DDC ultra with XSPC restop, and a XSPC single bay res with pump. The Rad will be mounted in the ROOF. The loop will only be for the CPU, case is a fractal design...

I know in its day the GTX295 was the daddy, but with 1080p being my resoloution for the forseeable is it worth my while upgrading to a 560 to take advantages of DX11, or would I lose speed in the majority of games I play (BF3, css, the odd bit of wow) Opinions on a postcard

Afternoon! Just want to know would a socket 1155 cooler fit a 775 motherboard? Want to use the 1155 stock cooler on a friends motherboard, I have mounting pins if the stock clips dont work too Cheers

Right guys, doing some pretty thorough research into specific components of my christmas refresh, and from what I have found, it could be a simple windows scheduler patch that puts a bulldozer chip back on my list, see link from Techreport Also see link from HardOCP and refer to point 6 where...

Right chaps, looking for a good Rad for cooling my Q9550, GPU is going back to air cooling with upgrade, so it will only be the motherboard and CPU. The motherboard is a rampage formula x48 with pretty much everything cooled, VRM's, NB and SB. Was thinking I could get away with a thin dual rad...

Morning guys, Been given a rather nice sony 20gb MP3 player, looks great and has good sound quality, only problem, sonicstage REALLY doesnt want to work on windows 7 ultimate 64bit. Anyone got experience with this / know a workaround. I have tried the mp_sony plugin for winamp to no avail, any...

Hey guys, as a bit of a project, and having wanted one for the last 5 years, I have built my pc and loop into a asus vento 3600. I have the rad mounted externally at the side was mounting it on the back doesnt work out well with both screens plugged in What I want to know is, what do you call...

Hey guys, just wondering if there is a way to fix a 3.5mm jack input on a amplifier, mines getting pretty old, and it requires to be held to one side for both speakers to work. Is there anything i can do to fix this , and if not can you recommend a decent new one for around the £50-£70 mark Cheers

Ok boys and girls, i have found my self a 160 gig hard drive, it asks for a pw at bios, not after, and it can be seen by acryonis, but not imaged or edited. Baseline question, is there a way to remove this kind of encryption. Any help appreciated

So guys, i sit here on my work pc, dreaming of my new rig. And something alarming is ringing in my ears.. WHAT OS? :D Im thinking of my tried and true vista64, but is this really my best option? Im open to all suggestions, but can they be backed up with a valid reason for me using it? I...

Hey guys :wavey: , as im in the process of building a new rig , wanting to get some better ram for OC'ing. Got about £70 to spend and i would like 4 gig of DDR2 Pc8500. Anyone got any going? If not will add to my order with the system builder :p

So guys, got me a q8200 to play with, and have about £120 for a decent water cooling kit. Any suggestions on prices/parts/places? Cheers ;D

Hey guys, i built my friends fathers pc a while back there, and recently he has upgraded to vista. He let vista instll the drivers, but has since had weird graphical errors and occasionally the pc will hang and then crash. As im the one fixing it, would this be because of the drivers vista has...

Hey guys, my friend has recently (last night ;)) attempted his first overclock, with 3.2ghz the traget. Using a q6600, o5n-e and 4 gig of geil Black dragon ram, he put in the following settings, vcore 1.35, fsb 333fsb and no other voltage increases. :rolleyes: After rebooting, his pc would...