Recent content by Jamsand

Need me some physX goodness it has been decided, but running on a 540W PSU so 560 Ti is as high as i can go

Hi there I'm looking at buying a waterblock for my asus(ie non-reference) 5850 and the only option open to me is an ek block found one second hand to keep costs down from ebay but looking at the picture the nickel plating seems to have worn through of a few places. Now I know that won't effect...

Now probably won't be buy this for another few months and I was debating wither I should just stick to air till I get round to an Ivy bridge build but I don't see that being for a good 3 years as I love my sabertooth and it's only been built about 8 months ago. Anyway going to TRY and watercool...

hey there I need a backplate for a scythe shiruken as I didn't realize it didn't come with one and my motherboard doesn't have one(bought second hand to keep costs down) could I use a watercool backplate with the cooler like this. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/watercool-backplate-lga-1366-m4...

I have a Asus sabertoothx58 and I'm having issues with the motherboard. i took one of the fans off the motherboard(fan3) and plugged it into a fancontroller this was fine until 10 minutes later when i got a random shutdown and now everytime i start up i get a message saying error on cpu fan1...

I'm almost certain this is the wrong catagory for this topic but i dunno where it would go lol. I just bought a lamptron fc-2 and was wondering how on earth anyone that may have one or something similar does the cable management on it connecting the 3 molex without bulge or mess and then...

High there I know it;s a lil out of date and all but does anyone know of any 5850 waterblocks the cover the entire pcb? it's just rather smart looking but none of the ones I'v seen do if not can also apply this question to a gtx 560 or 570 as depending on future funs an upgrade may be due:)...

Hey there i was working on my cintiq then graphics card drivers crshed and recovered but only recovered for my dell monitor which was set as secondary now windows will only detect and send a signal to the cintiq up until start up at which point it comes up no signal any ideas? tried to reinstall...

Ok this isn't even OC'ing but seems best place for advice on the topic disabling speedstep seesm to be crashing my pc after an hour of use is that even possible?

Right so friend has watched me(slowly) construct my rig and has decided he'd like a go just to have a lil fun to toy around and what not however he's set me a budget of £300 for a build for him. I started keeping up with tech news and the such about October so my knowledge of hardware before...

I just need to find out the fault here my computer keeps randomly hanging sometimes during start up others just after and sometimes 5 minutes in. I thought it was possibly my graphics card however tried it with an old graphics card that I know works and it still hangs. After that I thought...

so specs atm cpu: intel 17 920 RAM: generic 1066mhz GPU: radeon 5850 MB:sabertooth x58 OS: originally windows 7 current windows xp Sohow the story goes started my first build ages ago lol but the cooler that was on the old packard motherboard was inhouse and didn't fit anything but a...

working on a budget s looking for the best sub £5 fans looking at bitfenix spectre coolermaster sickleflow antec tricool any recommendations? using coolermaster 690 II adv looking to add 5-7 fan 2x sidepanel 2x top 1x back 1x floor(considering) 1x 140 intake(considering)

anyone any idea what's going on or what additional info i can provide

Dunno if this is the right section but when i'm video calling on skype i get the evil red connection of doom as i call it. this makes no sense because when i look at my bandwidth in resource manager skype is only pulling like 7KB of upload when i test with bbmax there is 700kb/s available. same...