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Thanks for the help. I think ill stick with this one untill i really need to upgrade.

Is my PSU decent or does it need upgrading, I dont know the brand: Chieftec and I dont want my PSU blowing up and taking my components with it. It's powering the following: Pentium D 805 @ 3.7Ghz 1GB DDR2-667 RAM ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe NVIDIA 6600GT 256MB GDDR3 250GB SATA HDD My PSU...

Gran Turismo A Spec Reducing me to tears after I spent hours trying to do those crappy driving tests. I never got far in gran turismo games, the tests were just too hard :(

EA have pushed it too far now. I bought (stupidly) Battlefield 2142 today, hoping that perhaps EA had resolved their ways - I was lead to believe this after they finally sorted out the problems (or most of them) in Battlefield 2. But yet again, EA have released a game which isn't even ready...

I thought of that too. I have PC2-5300 RAM. When my CPU is not overclocked it runs at PC2-4300. I thought this was because of the low FSB speed of the Pentium D 805 - 533MHz. When I overclock the CPU to 4.0GHz the CPU FSB is at 800MHz and the RAM performs at PC2-5300. So I thought this...

I have overclocked my Pentium D 805 to 4.0GHz. It runs like a dream and idles at just over 50*C on stock cooling. However, I ran PCMark05 to check stability. During the test using internet explorer, which I think opens hundreds of pages or something (you hear it refreshing) and pushes CPU...

I recently built two identical systems - one for my brother and one for myself. With these systems I purchased 6600GT graphics cards. I'm not sure about everybody else here, but I have little knowledge about SLI and how "good" it really is. I decided to pinch my brother's graphics card...

Thanks mate

I was supplied with a Sagem modem for my DSL connection. There are only two ports on the back of the modem - 1 USB port and 1 telephone line port (connects to the wall). Im currently not using a router, but would like to know whether I should: a) Buy a new modem which supports LAN rather...

I've just moved back to England and have registered for internet with a company called Tiscali. When they sent me the DSL modem I found that it only supported USB (rather than ethernet cable). Is this normal? In the past I have always used a LAN cable to connect my PC to the router which then...

When this happened to me, I could only set up another partition. Is there anyway to add it to the current one? I.e. all in the C:\ drive. (sorry about bumping this)

ALSO: Make sure you have your silicon controller set to SATA 2 Mode in BIOS.

I have installed a SATA drive into my new rig. It's a 250Gb Seagate. After the windows installation, I could only see 127Gb of it, I then installed windows service pack 2 and went to manage disks. There, I saw the "lost space" and set it up as a second partition. Is there any way around...

I must have tried about 15 different drivers also. You need to make sure it's the right one, the one that I found to work was one that I would not have chosen if it wasnt written on another website. On my mobo's cd there are a number of drivers labeled: RAID 32-bit SATA 32-bit ITE8211...

Hi calsonix5, Are you using 1 SATA HDD and trying to install xp on it? I have recently had this problem when using a new SATA drive in a new rig. A 250Gb SATA Seagate. You need to get your motherboard's CD, put it in another PC and there should be some drivers on there. I'm using an AUS P5LD2...

Yeah, I thought that could be the problem, the PC runs fine, just hot :( Im seeing if I can get the PSU replaced. This system is for my brother (built his first so I could see how it ran - and I'm happy appart from this issue). I've ordered mine with a better PSU (Antec / OCZ / Enermax -...

Do you not think that the thermal paste is what's causing this overheating? I bought this CPU so that I could overclock it, but right now I won't even bother. The heatsink is definately hot, I rechecked it all. The 805 is supposed to be a cool chip, I'm going to get a new fan for it and some...

I had never set up a SATA drive before and didn't know that Windows would not recognize it. Part of the problem was the floppy drive, which was malfunctioning for some reason. I took a certain driver off the CD provided by ASUS (nothing of this mentioned in the manual), but somebody on...

CoD2 definately made me feel sick. Games which have a sort of "zoom" on them make me feel like this. You see your character's arms, and then the ground seems quite close. Not sure how to explain it :) Definately something to do with perspective for me.

I'm using a 20-pin PSU in a 24-pin supported motherboard. Could this be a reason why the CPU is "overheating"?