Recent content by HarryB

I built my water-cooled PC probably about a year ago now and I feel it’s time to have a few upgrades and mods :) I’ve been looking to replace the four 120mm fans highlighted below with blue LED ones that will be controlled by the Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus Black Multi Fan Controller therefore noise...

I have just installed a E8400 into a Asus P5K-E and its happily crunching through Orthose at 3.6Ghz BUT before I put the CPU in the socket I noticed a pin that looked bent on the far right of the CPU socket, I installed the CPU anyway hoping one small pin wouldn’t effect anything, and as far as...

I brought some ram just a couple days ago to finish building a computer for someone, Specs.... Core 2 Duo E8400, Asus P5K-E, 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800, POV Geforce 9600GT, 600w Enermax Noisetaker 2. Anyway on with the problem, I’ve been trying all day to get this thing stable at 4GHz I...

Intel's New Processors!! ALL info shamefully stolen from this web site! :worship: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/01/07/intel_announces_16_new_45nm_cpus_at_ces/1 Intel has announced 16 new 45nm processors today, including its first Penryn family processors for notebooks based on Intel’s...

I’m looking into buying the a new Nvidia 780i Mobo so I’m ready for the 9 Series which will support 2.0 PCI-Ex. I've got an EVGA 680i at the moment but I don’t know weather to turn to The Asus Striker series. I’m sure there have been many benchmarks between the EVGA and ASUS 680i boards but I...

Im getting a new PSU so im ready for the new Nvidia 9 Series as they will prbs have 8 Pin connectors, Im looking at this power supply 850w silverstone. Are silverstone anygood for PSUs? I know silverstone do brilliant cases but what are there PSUs like? :) Thanks

Right, I’m in a dilemma, My girlfriend needs a new PC Badly, I’m talking 800Mhz Pentium 3, Nvidia Geforce2 MX and like 256 SDDR Ram. lol! So she asked me to build her one for around £400 so we are going to buy it bit by bit over the next couple of months. I started with the screen. A £133 LG 20”...

Didn’t quite know where to put this thread but I guess here will do :P My friend just got a HD TV for Xmas and he wants to hook his Xbox 360 up in HD but his Xbox doesn’t have the HDMI socket that the new ones have just the standard one and his TV only accepts HDMI and VGA and HDMI is much...

I’m sorting out a new PC for someone and we have decided to buy it bit by bit over the next couple of months, So first of is the screen, I’ve found this 20" widescreen from LG, Good response time & high Contrast ratio, any one got a LG monitor?? I’m just wondering before we buy it to make sure...

Today I got my new Logitech Z-5500 speakers and there awesome, BUT I need a new sound card I and I have been over this before and thought I was settled on a Creative SoundBlaster ‘X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional’ but it hasn’t got an optical port, I’ve always been told optical has the...

I have an Enermax 600W Noise Taker 2 and I’m thinking of getting a second 8800GTX, but I don’t know if my power supply could handle it, If I did I would have to use 4 Molex connectors to convert into 2 6Pin connectors . Does all this sound possible or is it worth just buying a new one, Im...

Iv got a enermax 600w Noisetaker 2 and i need to power 5 120mm fans how many fans could i run off a single Molex connector i need to free up molexs for other hardware and there all being taken up my fans! Thanks :)

I’ve got an 8800GTX that I recently water-cooled, I want to overclock it so I can get even more out of there beast! :P What’s a sensible Core Bus and Memory Bus to set it to? My Temps at the moment IDLE are about 40*C and with a load it will only max out about 45*C Hers what my Nvidia CP looks...

Started this moring finished about 8! Sorry for the lack of pictures i got carried away and totaly forgot to take them! ^^^^ Taking it apart... always the easybit lol ^^^^ I sealed each barb with sealing tape and an Oring ^^^^ CPU cooler on! ^^^^ Nice snug fit! ^^^^ I lost track...

Swiftech MC8800 SMC Cooling Kit..... OUT OF STOCK EVERYWERE!!!! :( This is the last thing i need and i can find it anywere except the states, Is there any others just as good?