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It's been a while since I had a good old mess around inside my PC. But I thought I'd check today how hot the CPU is getting and it was getting up to 78c on full load! (using prime95) The safe temp is 62c, according to AMD. The HSF I'm using is a Cooler Master Hyper TX-2 and I'm running at...

I recently had a lil whoopsie when I dropped my Phenom 9850BE and bent a load of pins. I know a guy who can bend the pins back into place but 1 pin on the outer-most row is missing, so my question is ... is it possible to get one pin replaced on a CPU? (and is there anyone in the UK that does it?)

Bought new mobo, problem fixed! :)

A few months ago, I bought a Asus M3A76-CM mobo to replace the last one that I accidentally blew up (oops!). I rebuilt the computer but it wouldn't POST or POSTed and crashed during or shortly after booting. So I took the graphics card out (Sapphire HD4850) and used the on board graphics and...

I had a very similar problem until about an hour ago ... I bought a new motherboard and it now works perfect! Mine was the same ... no beeps, no screen, nothing, although there was power. I plugged a new LCD TV into the DVI and that must have blown it ... although it is very strange.

i recently got a new samsung lcd tv and tried to hook my pc up to it via hdmi. but the sceen on both the tv and the monitor would flick on and off and then crash the computer. after a few times, i rebooted it and it wouldn't even POST. no beep or anything! there is power and the drives still...

I've been thinking ... I want to upgrade my x1950 Pro but not sure which is best ... buying a new HD card for about £200 or getting a second x1950 for about £40 on ebay and use it via Crossfire. Which is going to be the better idea? With Crossfore, will I see a significant performance...

I installed Half-Life 2 years ago via Steam (plus eps 1 & 2) and have been using it with no problems. But for reasons I can't be bothered explaining, I had to have internet cut off at my house the other day (and for a couple of months yet) but now, I can't play the game in 'offline mode'. What...

I am looking for a new ISP because I'm with Tiscali and it's teh sux0r because: It's much slower than what I thought it would be It costs more than I thought it would It chokes my connection to death with I use P2P, even off-peak! I can't understand what the call centre staff are saying All I...

Try downloading newer drivers ... making sure you uninstall the old ones first. Also make sure that the card is seated in the slot properly. That was an issue for me once.

Ha, this is where it gets interesting ... I posted some results as while ago when I first got my X800XL and got 20853 with 3DMark 2001 SE. Since then, all I've added is the HD 2600 XT and overclocked the CPU slighly and got 20938. That's not the biggest improvement in graphics that I've ever...

I initially installed the drivers that I downloaded from the website. But I uninstalled these and installed the drivers from the disc that came with the card. Seems to run a little better but it performs nowhere near as well as I'd hoped. No visable improvement over my old card from what I...

Bought a new gaphics card, problem went away!

I have a 19" widescreen LCD with 5ms response time ... tis perfect!

I upgraded my graphics card this morning. Problem is, the store didn't have any Sapphire X1950 Pro 512s in stock so the guy reccomended a Sapphire 2600 XT 256 as an alternative. So I installed it and expected a decent improvement in graphics quality, but it wasn't the case. It actually seems...