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Hey guys, I recently bought bits to put together a 939 NF3 system. I have a Manchester X2 3800 BH5 (2226) DFI lanparty ut nf3 939 seasonic psu galaxy G-force 6800gt HDA-Mystique sound card. Im loving this system, it really flys *but*, (and its a big b sadly) there seem to be some...

Hi guys; I haven't been around for a while, job / house responsibility's sucked all my free time / money away and have only just got my computer bits out of storage. I hope you are all well and still making things go fast with aplomb! .. Bad news is my beast really cant fit in my new room and it...

Sittin here on my day off waiting to get on the euro wow servers.... Any other EP chaps playing wow? it would be cool to hook up. daboo!

My bro is buying a latop, around 1500 max. We were lookin at this asus laptop. Its quite small (A4) size, and looks pretty dave hot. I hate sony, and most of the convential ones are pretty boring, is there any where else i should be looking. (alienware looked cool but a bit pricey.)

Guys, How far have you taken the standoffs on the machII cpu kits? Can you get away with completely flat on both sides? Im looking for positive correlation on chance of chip breakage vs contact pressure

Up until now the only way to get surround sound through an av receiver in games via coax / optical was the soundstorm chip that came with the nforce2 chipset. Hitec (a korean audio company) are releaseing a new pci card that will do it!!! Ive always been surprised that the ep buch werent...

Guys whats the best way to get DC4 off your cpu and mobo?

"Raid Failing" ? SORTED NOW! Does any one know what might be causeing windows to display a message saying my raid is failing? I have two maxtor 80's SATA @ RAID 1 the volumes on it all seem fine its just error msg. I have defragged / scan disk'ed all volumes on the drives. MSI 865pe neo2 Raid...

Hey guys, I have a friend who has flashed their bios to an incorrect version on an ASUS terminator, it boots with no screen or anything then gives 1 long then 2 short beeps. Ive tried replacing cpu / mem to no avail. when i was messing around with a p4c800-e-dx some time ago I was in a...

Hey there I built a system for a friend over the weekend based around the aforementioned barebones system. I’ve finally managed to get an OS on there but it is unstable as hell. Here is the history; it would be wicked if u guys could help. -removed the rubber pads from the cpu (XP 2600+ to make...

http://www.dfi.com.tw/press/press_header_content_us.jsp?PAGE_TYPE=US&TITLE_ID=4503&LINK_URL=arch325.jsp&SITE=UK Well the rains starting im putting my boats away and thinking about a 2nd winter with my prommie. Its gotta be a 64 bit set up this time around for me. Im not v impressed by LGA and...

Just had a play with btx and the 915 chipset and a 3.2 prescot ES with 1 meg! yeah very cool little sff machine in built grx but with a pci-x slot.. ill chat more later on irc but fer now heres some cpu z and wcpuid action The chip was an LGA 3.2 prescott with 1 meg of cache and an unlocked...

last night I really borked up my droop mod Id been running a lovely clock of 4530 on 1.82V after a bit of tweakage and was happy as larry with it so i decided to finish the mod by gluing my trimmer onto a part of the rear IO pannel. Stupidly i applied the glue to my finger which caught one of...

Good news from camp gorby this morning. I finished setting up my rma'ed board last night and the results are quite spiffing :D Ill start with a before and after and then some speculative thought. b4.. best stable clock p4c800-e-d, vdimm + vdroop mod'ed with parts bought from maplins. (where...

Hey guys, my p4c800-e-d is dead and has been since early last week. Im waiting on an RMA decision from asus atm, any one had any exp with regards to their "stringency"? Would like to here your thoughts on what may have killed it... When i left it it would power on but not post, i could here...