Recent content by SwaleSmith

Is this BS...? http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/05/28/intel-to-discontinue-core-i7-920-940-cpus/1 Been pondering on wether to upgrade to i7 920 D0 revision from my ES 920 but stumbled across this whilst looking for reviews....

Hi, I recently purchased a OQO E2 UMPC with a 1.6GHZ VIA C7-m CPU 1GB RAM and a 120gb HDD for internet usage on the go. I intended to use this as a pocketable device which it is fine for but I have been pondering over the idea of switching my HDD to one of the cheaper SSD disk drives obviously...

Hi, I have been haing soem trouble with my pc occasionally freezing no bue screen or anythiong just whatever was showing freezes!?:mad:, it has been going on for a few months now, basicaly it appears to freeze if left idle or doing thngs such as surfing the net, it hasn't happened to me on...

New microsoft controller...a must see... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8077369.stm

Sooner or later unfortunatley I may have to get rid of my desktop I always enjoy the odd spot of gaming, have tinckered witht he idea of alienware laptops etc but there very pricey and not upgradeable when the hardware become inferior which seems to happen rapidly. So my question is there a...

Just wondering, I am currently with tiscali 8mb broadband and my 12 month contract expires I am getting a good broadband speed in the region of 6mb which slows down a little at peak times as you expect. I have head a bit about be* broadband being a good ISP, so I checked out ther website and...

Watch this....(not a joke) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wE9nhYaVQbo&feature=related Is this at all possible for the USA's nuclear capabilities to be compromised???!!!! :o

Noticed alot of people on the net are trying to find windows 7 nvidia drivers that support the gtx 295 and gtx 285 etc etc. it seems that nvidia 185.20 drivers fully support windows 7 I am currently useing them and all seems fine...I also notice that when I install them it doesn't say vista but...

Cant understand it but occasionaly OC3D keeps freezing it freezes on windows vista sp1 and windows 7 beta (IE7 & 8) anyone elso getting these issues. Have dont multiple reinstalls (switching O.S etc) but the problem has always been there seems to be no pattern it just does it every now and...

So who will you be voteing for in the next UK elections???? Hopeing for conservative myself

Hi, Have been doing some tweaking with my i7 and have found that with HT disabled I am able to run higher clock speeds and or lower volts. But what I'm wondering is this, am I better to use HT and go for a lower clock speed or have HT off and have higher clock speed? Can't help that think...

don't know if was the best place to post this but i'm having problems with my avatar it won't delete or change??? I wanted to replace it with this.... p.s the file conforms with maximum size and kb's can anyone help?

My Lian Li V1000plus Mid Tower WC So heres my new rvised rig...needs a little cable management but for now........ Thanks for looking what do you think???

Hi, I'm currently runnign a antec skeleton, its conveneint for me due to its size, my question is is there a simlar size case as in something small and comapact that can accomodate a rampage x58 (slightly longer ATX board 1" longer i beleive) I have looked at the danger den torture rack this...

Seems I am in the $hit. was doing some tweaking trying to see if I could get my cpu stable with sensible...ish volts temps etc was runnign 1.400vcore & 1.35 qpi/dram volts as I was priming say 2mins in the pc just shut off thought it just failed prime....so attempt restart and the pc seems to...