So I was doing some testing with my ancient system and wow after some neat overclocking i managed to get a very nice stable average fps in battlefield 3. So first and foremost all settings were maxed out in 1080p (1920x1080) with max AA,AF,HBAO with offcoarse dx10 because the gtx 285 cards dont...
Ok so I have a older graphics card in this system and im using a dvi to hdmi adapter to connect it to my tv, so no sound. The card has spdif on it but I chose to go with onboard motherboard sound instead.
So I have a cable, forgot the name of it running from the audio out port from my...
Ok so everytime i boot up my pc I have to press F1 to continue because I get some floppy disk fail (80).
I have a 780i motherboard and some people have said just disable the floppy disk, but I cant its unavailable to click on I cannot do anything? so how do I disable it.
Also I have a little...
Ok so im testing out this Inno3d GTX 285 and about to overclock it so according to Inno3d website this should be the card specs.
Core clock - 648mhz
Memory clock - 2484mhz
Shader clock - 1476mhz
Now what it shows on mine is this
Core clock - 648mhz
Memory clock - 1242mhz
Shader clock -...
Ok so im having a little troubl getting the real temperature of my Phenom 1100T.
I have a Amd Phenom 1100T at stock clocks which is being cooled by a Corsair H80.
Now at 100% load after 1 hour my cpu temps according to AMD overdrive is 72 degrees celcius, but according to CoreTemp software its...
Ok so I have a cooler on the way but it will take 2-3 days to arrive. In the meantime I want to install an Operating system + other software on my old computer machine and the only available cooler I have sucks.
This system is outdated but im going to get it running to have a spare machine for...
Ok so i randomly get bsod mostly when im gaming now i mean really random and i have no idea why. It eather turns to black screen and i cant do anything but am forced to manual reset or it will bsod.
When it resets from Bsod there is no error message and I cant find the error anywere as it auto...
Ok so Ive got my old rig outa the garage as i want to test it and have some fun with it. So specs are below
XFX nForce 780i SLI motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66Ghz
Mushkin/Ocz 8GB DDR2 800mhz
Evga Gtx 285 superclocked Edition
Inno3D Gtx 285
Thermaltake Toughpower 750w modular psu...
Ok so ive decided to revive my old beast Xfx 780i from a couple years ago and need some ddr2 ram. Now all I managed to find is 2 x 1GB sticks of Team Xtreme 800mhz 4-4-4-12 in my component cabinet and want to add more.
Im planning to add 4GB more so 2 x 2GB DDR2 sticks to my motherboard, so it...
So i want to run sli on my power supply but dont have the right connections. The power supply is the Thermaltake toughpower 750w modular cable management power supply. It has 3 x 6pin pice connectors and 1 x 8 pin power connector. The 8 pin in not a 6+2 but just straight 8pin. I was wondering if...
Hey, so I had some spare cash and thought id throw together a extra pc for the second entertainment area in the house. I currently have my main rig in my bedroom and its performing well but ive only been building computers as of about mid 2010 to 2012 so i only have about 2 years experience...
This card was flashed incorrectly before i dont know the full history but from what i know thats what happened. Ive rulled out all other components and have tested other gpus with my system and ive tested the gpu on other systems all same results.
Ok so the 6950 does not display anything on the...
So I have a Sapphire 6950 2GB graphics card and I have a small problem. I got this card for free of a friend who kind of stuffed up the bios and im fairly sure the repair is as simple as putting back the correct bios. So what has happened is he installed a new bios, this particular card has a...